274 REVISION OF MAMESTRA SMITH. 



reniform marks bordered with deep black, contaioing whitish points j 

 orbicular almost round; reniform of the usual shape. Hind wings 

 cinereous ; lunule, veins, and a diffuse marginal band brownish. Length 

 of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 22 lines." 



" The pale marginal line of the forewings distinguish it from M. 

 impulsa.^ 



" a. Vancouver Island." 



Mamestra vetustra Wlk. 

 1865. Wlk., C. B. M., Leg. Het. xxxii, 662, Mamestra. 



"Foem: Cana; caput rnfescente notatum; palpi porrecti, extus 

 nigro notati, articulo 3" lanceolato ; pectus rufescens ; alse anticte latie, 

 lineis nonnullis e lunulis iudistinctis fuscis, liuea basali angulata, litu- 

 risque costalibus nigris, orbiculari et reniformi albidis magnis nigro 

 submarginatis ; posticse aeneo sufifusfe." 



"Female: Hoary, dingy beneath. Head with a tranverse reddish 

 mark between the antennae. Palpi porrect, extending a little beyond 

 the head; second joint pilose, partly black on the outer side; third 

 lanceolate, hardly one-third the length of the second. Pectus reddish. 

 Abdomen extending a little beyond the hind wings. Legs black-speck- 

 led; si^urs whitish, with a black band; tarsi spinose, their joints black 

 towards the base. Wings broad. Forewings with some brown indis- 

 tinct lines composed of lunules, and with black marks along the costa; 

 a deeply angular black line near the base ; orbicular and reniform 

 marks large whitish, incompletely blackbordered ; marginal festoon 

 black. Hind wings with an {leneous tiuge. Length of the body 10 

 lines, of the wings 24 lines." 



"a. Vancouver's Island." 



Hecatera Strigicollis Walleugr. 

 1860. Walleugr., Wien. Ent. Monatschr., IV, 170. 



"Alls anticis supra albidis, spatio basalis ochraceo fuscoque marmor- 

 ato, spatio intermedio ferrugineo-fusco, maculis cellulae 2 ordinariis 

 albis, margineque exteriore extra lineam subterminalem undulatam 

 cano ; posticis griseis disco pallidiore ; coUari ferrugineo, linea nigra 

 transversa margineque canescente. S ." 



California. Mus. Holm. Statura E. serence. 



LIST OF SPECIES OF MAMESTRA. 



1. discalis Grt. 



2. rogenhoferi McESchl, 



3. nimbosa Gu. 



4. imbrifera Gn. 



5. purpurissata Grt. 



var. juncimacula Smith. 



6. insolens Grt. 

 arietis Grt. 

 eai-ina Morr. 

 ■ 7. leucograninia Grt. 



8. lepidula Smith. 



9, determinata Smith. 



