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There is an obscure black line, broken into scales through the submedian interspace, 

 best marked at base. The ordinary spots are fused inferiorly, the lower and outer 

 margin of the combined spot shaded with deep brown, the upper and inner tending 

 to obsolescence. As a whole the wings look strigate without actually being so. 

 Secondaries white. Beneath white, with a little blackish powdering, most obvious 

 on primaries. 



Expands: i. 55-1. 60 inches = 39-40 mm. 



Habitat. — Stockton, Utah, August 30. 



Two male examples, neither of them very good, collected by Mr. 

 Tom Spalding. One of them, from Dr. Barnes, is labelled '02 ; the 

 other, from my own material, is labelled '04 ; the inference is that 

 the species is not common. This species is an ally of nugatis and 

 the smallest of the purpuHssata type. It is an exaggeration of the 

 juncimacula style of maculation and agrees with nugatis in the white 

 secondaries. The yet narrower primaries, much lighter bluish gray 

 color and the differences in details distinguish it from the latter species. 



Mamestra agnata, new species. 



Ground color a rather uniform ashen gray, a little darker in the female than in 

 the male. Collar with a distinct black cross-line, patagia with black submargin. 

 Primaries with all the lines and marks cleanly defined and complete, yet nothing con- 

 trasting except a lunule in the s. t. line above the anal angle, which is white and 

 relieved by a preceding blackish shade. Basal line geminate, blackish, irregular. 

 T. a. line geminate, outer portion usually more obvious, a little outcurved, even or a 

 little outcurved in the intervals. T. p. line almost evenly bisinuate, inner line broader 

 and barely lunulate. S. t. line whitish, making two rather even outward curves with 

 an angle between them, emphasized by a dusky following shade and in the s. m. 

 interspace as already described. A black, scarcely lunate terminal line. A yellow 

 fine line at the base of the long fringes which are cut with blackish. There is a 

 median shade which darkens the space between the ordinary spots and extends below 

 to the inner margin. Claviform moderate or small, black margined, and beyond and 

 partly over it is a reddish brown shading, the only patch of color in the wing, and 

 that not always present. Orbicular moderate or large, round or a little irregular, 

 black edged, annulate with pale gray, center concolorous or nearly so. Reniform 

 upright, of good size, black margined, with a pale interior ring, and the disc paler 

 than the ground, but not contrasting. Secondaries a little smoky in the $ , decidedly 

 so in the 9 '> even in both cases. Beneath, gray, powdery, darker in the female, a 

 common extra-median line and on the secondaries a discal spot. 



Expands: 1. 25-1.35 inches = 31-34 mm. 



Habitat. — Redington, Arizona. 



Three males and two females from Dr. Barnes, all in good condi- 

 tion and all without date. This species has the antennae in the $ 

 marked and bristle tufted, and is an ally of M. gnata Grt., which 



