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Descriptions or North American ]VIOTIIS. 



BY AUGUSTUS R. GROTE. 



Maniestra Inbens, n. sp. 



% 9 • — This species resembles in appearance the European M. bras- 

 sicse and should replace that species in the " List." It is equal sized 

 but more variegated in color and more lilac tinged and wants the 

 terminal claw to the fore tibiae which distinguishes the European 

 species, for specimens of which latter I am indebted to the courtesy 

 of George Norman, Esq. Blackish with a faint lilac hue. Eyes 

 hairy; abdomen strongly crested on the middle segments. Transverse 

 lines black, indistinctly geminate, lunulate or waved. Claviform rather 

 wide and obtuse, black margined. Orbicular full, subquadrate with 

 pale or whitish filling, continuously black ringed. Median shade per- 

 pendicular, dentate. Reniform large, discolorous, filled in with white, 

 with a yellowish stain and with a darker center, upright, not kidney- 

 shaped, rounded superiorly, straight at base. Subtermiual space paler 

 and lilac-tinted, becoming yellow-brown before and along the whitish 

 subterminal line which is continuous and shows the median dentations 

 distinctly. Terminal black cuneiform marks evident. Secondaries 

 wholly brownish fuscous with pale fringes and vague terminal line. 

 Beneath paler with common vague transverse line and discal marks 

 most distinct on hind wings. Expanse 4.5 mm. 



Hab. Canada, Eastern and Middle States. 



Heliothis cupes, n. sp. 



%. — Fore tibise with a longer inner and shorter outer terminal claw; all the 

 tibiae spinose. Forewings yellowish gray with all the veins finely marked by 

 paler scales. Markings distinct. Basal half line geminate, pale centered, the 

 inner blackish line most distinct. T. a. line geminate, the blackish component 

 lines equally marked, slightly arcuate and uneven. Ordinary spots with darker 

 centers and narrow black annuii pale margined within. Orbicular very near 

 .the t. a. line, rounded, well sized. Eeniform with a pale central indistinct 

 curved streak. T. a. line a little indented opposite the cell, the pale center 

 more evident than the component lines, running inwardly below the reniform 

 and narrowing the median space inferiorly. Median shade visible below the 

 reniform, approximate to the t. p. line but divergent to the internal margin. 

 The pale subterminal line is preceded by black cuneiform marks most distinct 

 medially. Terminal line black, distinct, preceded by a pale line, broken by 



TRANS. AMER. ENT. SOC. (15) MARCH, 1875. 



