126 BULLETIN 44, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



M. vau-media Smith. 

 1887. Smith, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 466, Mamestra. 



Haeitat. — Colortido. 



The type is with Mr. J. Doll. 



M. incur va Smith. 

 1887. Smith, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., x, 466, Mamestra. 



Habitat. — Colorado; Arizona; New Mexico. 

 The type is in Mr. Neumcegeu's collectiou. 



M. 4-lineata Grt.* 



1873. Grt., Bull. Buff. Soo. Nat. Sci., i, 140, pi. 4, f. 1!5, Mamestra. 



Habitat. — Arizona; California, February, March, April, June, Au- 

 gust, October. 

 Types are in the British Museum and in the Edwards collection. . 



M. marinitincta Harv.* 



1875. Harv., Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., ii, 27H, Mamestra. 

 1877. Harv., Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., in, 6, Mamestra. 



Habitat. — Texas, October, Koveraber. 



The type is in the British Museum and is the same species received 

 by the National Museum from Belfrage under that name. 



M. laudabilis Gn.* 



1852. Gn., Spec. Gen., Noct., n, 30, pi. 8, f. 4, Hecatera. 

 1857. Wlk., C. B. Mus., Het., xi, 511, Uecatern. 



1874. Grt., Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvi, 241, Mamestra. 



1875. Grt., Can. Ent., vii, 27, Mamestra. 

 indicans Wlk. 



1856. Wlk., C. B. Mus., Het., x, 359, Hapalia. 

 1868. G. & K., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, ii, 78, pr. syn. 



strirjicollis Wallgr. 

 1860. Wallgr., Wien. Ent. Monatschr., iv, 170, Hecatera. 

 1891. Smith, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiv, 274, Mamestra. 



var. illaudabilis Grt.* 

 1875. Grt., Can. Ent., vii, 27, Mamestra. 

 1881. Grt., Can. Ent., xiii, 129, Mamestra. 



Habitat. — New Jersey ; southward and westward to Florida, Texas, 

 and Colorado; California, April, August, September; Colorado in 

 August. 



Types of the Guenee, Grote, and Walker species are in the British 

 Museum. I think there can be no reasonable doubt that Wallengren's 

 species is the same. 



M. alboguttata Grt.* 



1877. Grt., Bull. Buff". Soc. Nat. Sci., iir, 85, Mamestra, 

 Habitat. — New Mexico ; Oregon ; California, 

 The tj^pe is in the ^Rritish Museum, 



