230 NooimD^. 



to termen at veins 4, 3, and bent outwards to tornus, -with black 

 streaks from before it to termen in interspaces between veins 2 

 and 5 ; cilia intersected with white. Hind wing whitish suflPused 

 with brown ; a dark terminal line ; cilia white at tips ; the under- 

 side white irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal lunule and 

 sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada ; U.S.A., E. States, Massachusetts, New Jerse)-, 

 Wisconsin, Racine {Mesle), 1 c? , Virginia, Florida, St. John's 

 Bluff {Douhleday), 2 J , 1 $ , type and type projjulsa, New Mexico. 

 Exp. 34 millim. 



*1449. Epia minorata. (Plate LXXXIV. fig. 17.) 



Mamestra minorata. Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 467 (1887) ; id. Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 122. 



5 . Head and thorax mixed with red and dark brown scales ; 

 frons with blackish bar ; tegulte with slight dark line ; patagia 

 with blackish line near upper edge ; abdomen ochreous whitish 

 irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing whitish suffused with pale and 

 dark brown ; subbasal line double filled in with whitish, waved, 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double, oblique, 

 waved, angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform represented by an 

 ill-defined blackish patch with pale patch beyond it ; orbicular and 

 reniform moderate, brown with strong white annuli slightly defined 

 by brown ; postmedial line double, minutely dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa, incurved below vein 4 and dentate on vein 1, some 

 white points on costa beyond it ; subterminal line white, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and slightly dentate on veins 4, 3, with slight 

 dentate black marks before it at middle, and black streaks from it 

 to termen above veins 3, 4, 5 ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia pale with a brown 

 line through them ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a 

 discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, California, in U.S. Nat. Mus. Exp. 

 32 miUim. 



*1450. Epia ectrapela. (Plate LXXXIY. tig. 18.) 



Mamestra ectrapela, Smith, Ent. News Philad. ii. p. 249 (1898) ; Dyar, 

 Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 156. 



S . Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with brown ; tegulaa 

 and patagia whitish, the former with diffused blackish medial line, 

 the latter edged with blackish ; tarsi blackish ringed with white ; 

 abdomen reddish ochreous. Fore wing whitish thickly irrorated 

 and suffused with brown ; a slight black streak below base of cell 

 intersected by the subbasal line, which is defined by whitish on 

 outer side ; antemedial line strong, black defined by pale colour 

 on inner side, evenly curved from costa to vein 1 where it is angled 

 inwards on vein 1, then outwards above inner margin; claviform 



