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large, round, a little oblique, black ringed, with pale center and an internal 

 annulus; the disoal space around the spot and before the reniform is more or 

 less noticeably filled in with black. Eeniform also pale, with fainter internal 

 ringlet, black ringed, well sized. The transverse lines are obsoletely geminate, 

 filled in with white, and this filling in rather strikes the eye and seems to be 

 characteristic. The claviform is large, its upper black edge appears as a black 

 arcuate Hue below the median vein, its lower edge ''s indistinct. The subter- 

 minal line is more or less obviously preceded by black shade dashes, usually 

 determinate in pairs on submedian fold, between veins 4 and 6 and again sub- 

 costally; a dentate black terminal line defines the uneven margin of the wing; 

 frino-es gray. Hind wings very pale, shaded with fuscous terminally, with an 

 irregular faint median fuscous line and black terminal linear edging; fringes 

 whitish. Beneath very pale,subirrorate and shaded with fuscous, with a com- 

 mon line and discal marks. Palpi with the terminal joint white, the second 

 black on the sides. Head whitish; thorax mixed with black. Abdomen weak, 

 untufted. Expanse 3fi mm. 



New York; St. Catharines, Mr. Geo. Norman, No. 143. 



Hadena niactata, Ajyamea macte<a Guen.Noct. l,p. 207. Hadena mactata 

 Grote, List of the Noct. N. A. p. 15. 5 9 .—This species, with naked eyes, has 

 much resemblance to Mamestra claviplena Grote, in size and color, though this 

 is generally paler. Woodbrown; the median space darker shaded. A black 

 dash at base, and one below it on internal margin. The geminate black 

 lunulated median lines come nearly together on the internal margin. The t. a. 

 line runs outwardly strongly obliquely. The t. p. line is roundedly exserted 

 beyond the cell. Ordinary spots large, concolorous, pale ; orbicular obliquely 

 oval with a center stain; reniform with interior annulus. Claviform dark, 

 concolorous, finely outlined in black, wide, not long, resting on a black dash 

 which connects the t. a. and t. p. lines along the submedian fold. Subterminal 

 space pale and the dentate s. t. line distinct, again paler, very near the margin. 

 The woodbrown fringes are cut with pale, at the extremity of the veins. Hind 

 wings dark fuscous with indistinct darker median line; fringes pale. Beneath 

 pale, somewhat testaceous, irrorate and shaded with fuscsus, with a common 

 uneven line and small pupilled discal marks on both wings. Head and thorax 

 mixed pale and woodbrown. Expanse 28 mm. 



No. 193, St Catharines, Mr. Geo. Norman. The discal marks 

 beneath take the shape of small lunulas with a more or less distinct 

 pale center. Although Guenee's description is not very complete, it 

 seems to me sufficient. 



Hadena flava, Grote. 5 $. This is a rather small species with clear 

 bright yellow hind wings and broad black borders which reminds us at first 

 sight of Anarta cordigera. The structural characters are those of Hadena. The 

 eyes are naked. The squamation of the thorax is hairy. The dorsum of the 

 thorax has an anterior and posterior divided tuft. All the tibiae are unarmed. 

 The dorsum of the abdomen shows determinate tufts. Fore wings blackish 

 fuscous , t. a. line even, geminate, with fine bluish center, angulated. Ordinary 

 spots small, blue gray, the orbicular oblique. There is a brown shade over the 



