156 Au)ials Entomological Society of America [Vol. Ill, 



(jf which specimens from Xew York to Texas were examined, 

 there was not enough \'ariation to warrant more than a single 

 figure. The harpes are \'ery broad at base, with a \-ery narrow 

 rather short extension, and a small extension at tij). There are 

 two distinct claspers and one of them is spatulate. The corneous 

 sheath of the penis is very long in all the examples. 



Seven examples of strigicollis were studied, coming from Colo- 

 rado, Arizona and Utah, and three figures rcjjresent all the varia- 

 tions found. These are practically all in the size of the penis 

 sheath, though none is in the least like that of laiidabilis. The 

 differences in the uncus are due to difTerences of position, the 

 drawings having been made with a camera lucida. Attention is 

 especially directed to the unifomiity of the outer angle of clasper 

 at point of constriction. 



Two examples a o" and V from Kaslo, B. C, do not fit into 

 the series of strigicollis and, in my o])inion. represent a good 

 species. 



Mamestra restora n. sp. 



Head and ccjllar pale greenish over white; palpi black at sides, the 

 small terminal joint i)ale; vertex with an admixture of black scales. 

 Collar with a distinct black band crossing above the middle. Thoracic 

 disc mottled with black, white and pale green. Primaries, the pale 

 areas lii^ht i^recnish, basal and median lines white-filled, ornamenta- 

 tion otherwise black. All the lines geminate and broken. An irreg- 

 ular black spot at the termination of the basal line inferiorly. Median 

 space mostly black, marked with mossy green below the sub-median 

 vein. The outer part of wing is black i)r)wdcred. forming a black 

 patch at anal angle, more conspicuous than in its allies. The fringes 

 are deeply marked with black and narrowly cut with white. Claviform 

 deeper black, extending almost across the median space. Orbicular 

 small, round, with a blackish central dot and a greenish annulus. 

 Reniform large, superiorly dilated, annulate with white, with a mossy 

 greenish filling. Secondaries smoky in both sexes; uniformly so in 

 5 paler at base in & . Beneath, primaries blackish; secondaries with 

 blackish powdcrings along costa and outer margin, a dusky discal 

 sj)()t and an extra-median line. 



Ex])ands 1.08-1.12 inches equals 27-28 mm. 



Habitat: Kaslo, B. C, VII, 10, IX. 1. 



One ' and one 9 in good condition. Type of maculalion like 

 strigicollis, but darker throughout, the paler areas shaded with 

 green, the anal angle of primaries with a dark blotch, secondaries, 

 dark in both sexes. 



