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Genus OXIRA. 



Oxira, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxii. p. G,J6 (1865). 



" Forewiugs subquadrate at tlie tips ; exterior border sliglitly convex and oblique. 

 Body stout, abdomen with rather a large apical tuft; palpi porrect, pubescent, 

 extending somewhat beyond the head, second joint broad, oblique at the tip, third 

 joint subclavate, hardly half the length of second ; antenuEe moderately pectinated ; 

 legs stout, femora broadly fringed, spurs moderately long." 



OXIRA OCHRACEA. 



Oxira ochracea, Walker, Oatal. Lei). Het. B. M. xxxii. p. 657 (1865). 

 " Male. Ochraceous : forewings minutely black speckled ; with four black 

 antemedial points in the disc ; two incomplete denticulated, double black lines, one 

 on the inner side of the orbicular, the other on the outer side of the reniform mark; 

 a broader single bent and undulating black line between the marks ; a row of black 

 points beyond the second double line ; submarginal line blackish, double, nearly 

 straight ; orbicular and reniform marks large, incompletely black bordered : hind- 

 wings cinereous. Body reddish beneath, abdomen cinereous ; first and second 

 joint of palpi black on the outer side ; tibiiB and posterior tarsi blackish ; tips of 

 the joints of latter cinereous, spurs cinereous, with broad blackish band. Expanse 

 18 lines." 



Genus MAMESTRA. 



Mamesira, Oclisenlieimer, Schmett. Eiir. iv. p. 76 (1816); Samouelle, Ent. U. Comp. p. 251 (1819); 

 Hubuer, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 214 (1818-25). 



Male : forewing elongated, apex pointed, exterior margin oblique, posterior angle 

 obtusely pointed ; cell extending three-fifths the length of the wing ; first subcostal 

 emitted at one-half before end of the cell, and second at one-fourth, trifid ; fifth from 

 end of the cell, ascending and touching thu'd near its base; discocellular deeply 

 concave, radials from upper and near lower ends; middle median from close to end 

 of the cell, lower at one-fifth before the end ; submedian slightly curved near the 

 base : hindwing slightly produced apically, exterior margin oblique, convex ; cell 

 extending to half length of the wing; two subcostals on a footstalk at a short 

 distance beyond end of the cell ; discocellular bent inward before the middle, radial 

 from two-thirds above the lower end ; middle median from angle immediately before 

 end of the cell, lower at one-third before the end ; submedian and internal vein 

 straight. Body moderately stout ; palpi porrect, extending slightly beyond the head, 

 very laxly pilose, third joint short, obtuse, imbedded in hairs ; femora and tibice laxly 

 clothed, middle and hind tibite spurred ; antenna3 serrated, thickly ciliated. 



(Type, M. pisi.) 



