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Mamestra brassicae (Linn.). 
Habitat, New York. Our species does not seem to differ from 
the European. 
Mamestra albifusa. 
Hadena albifusa, Walker, p. 753. 
Habitat, New York; Nova Scotia. 
Mamestra chenopodii (W. V.). 
Hadena chenopodii, Guenée. 
Habitat, United States and Europe. 
Dianthoecia meditata, Grote. 
$ 9.—Size moderate; form compact; ¢ antennae with the edges of the 
joints relieved and furnished with short cilial tufts; 9? abdomen pointed with 
extruded oviduct ; eyes hairy. Dark colored, fore wings uniformly dark with 
faded ornamentation. Fuscous with pearly mottlings caused by a sparse 
admixture of white scales over the thorax and primaries. Transverse lines 
perceivable by pale centerings. Basal half-line twice waved. T. a. line 
perpendicular, thrice waved. The wing is more or less tinged with rufous 
over the median space on which the ordinary spots are with difficulty to 
be perceived; they are dark-circled, picked out by pale scales, concolorous. 
Above the reniform the t. p. line is incepted on costa by pale scales. The 
line is of the usual shape, slightly inwardly arcuate below median nervure, 
slightly lunulate. Three pale ante-apical costal dots. Terminal space nar 
row, paler than the rest of the wing; fringes silky, dark. Hind wing unicol- 
orously dark fuscous; fringes whitish with a dark line. Body parts concol- 
orous. Beneath a little paler, especially the hind wings, mottled with white 
scale points, with a common exterior line and discal dots. 
Lxpanse, 30m.m. Habitat, New York State (coll. B. S. N.S.; 
J. A. Lintner; Theo. L. Mead, No. 129). 
This is an obscurely colored species very different from Dian- 
thoecia capsularis (Raphia propulsa, Walker), but sharing the 
structural features that separate the genus from Mamestra. | It is 
the third described N. Am. species, unless others are described, 
under some other generic title, by Mr. Walker in the British 
Museum Lists. It may be remarked here that a condemnation of 
Mr. Walker for an occasional erroneous determination in the 
