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Male. Brownish fawn-colour. Thorax with black bands. 

 Abdomen with black crests. Fore wings here and there blackish ; 

 costal and basal marks, some imperfect transverse lines, reuiform 

 and orbicular ringlets, and another ringlet behind the renitbrm one, 

 and marginal lunules black; some white marks on the ringlets, and 

 a white transverse undulating exterior line. Hind wings whitish, 

 with broad brownish borders. Length of the body b^ lines ; of the 

 wings 16 lines. 



a. Mexico. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



South America. 

 Group I. 

 Like the first European group. 



29. Mamestka calidipes. 



Pectus, abdomen basi peclesque longissime et densissime hirta ; alec 

 anticce testaceo-cinereie, fusco et rufescente consperscE, ciliis 

 linea nigricante divisis ; posticce jlavescente-albce, margins lato 

 nigricante. 



Mamestra calidipes, Guen. Nod. \. 189, 294. 



Brazil. 



30. Mamestra decoloea. 



Alee anticce pallide testacco-cinerece, lineis maculisgue pallidioribus , 

 macula orbiculari parva rolunda, guttis marginalibua obscu- 

 rioribus, ciliis longis densis ; posticce sordide albidce, margine 

 lato cinereo. 



Mamestra decolora, Guen. Noct. i. 190, 297. 



Colombia. 



31. Mamestra crista. 



Ferrugineo-fusca ; thorax et alee anticce subpurpurascentia ; abdo- 

 men fusco-cinereum ; tarsi testaceo fasciali ; alee anticce lineis 

 duabus transversis indistinctis undulatis testaceis, guttis cos- 

 tali'xis albido-testaceis, gutta basali punctisque marginalibus 

 albidis, maculis rcniformi et orbiculari testaceis nigro margi- 

 nalis ; posticce fuscescentes, basi cinereee. 



Noctua crista, iMornlz, MSS. 



