204 LEPIDOPTERA. 



it is difficult to imagine it absent from the coast. The Rev. 

 Joseph Greene appears to have met with a specimen near 

 Dublin many years ago, and there is a single record, not 

 confirmed, in the North of Ireland. 



Abroad its range is very wide — almost the whole of the 

 Continent of Europe, a large portion of Northern and Eastern 

 Asia, the mountains of India, and North and South Africa. 

 Also apparently over the larger portion of North America in 

 the typical form and intermediates, to the var. albifusa, which 

 last appears to be found in the Eastern United States, Canada, 

 and Nova Scotia ; while more typical specimens from Oregon, 

 Kansas, and elsewhere are known as H. Oregonica, Grote. 

 Dr. Smith places under the present species what is known as 

 glaucovaria, apparently from Canada; and some portions of 

 South America must be included in its range if, as seems 

 certain, H. intermixta^ Walk, from Chili is the same species. 



Genus 17. MAMESTRA. 



Antenna simple, ciliated ; eyes hairy, and having raised 

 lashes at the back ; thorax crested, but top tufts very small ; 

 abdomen with three to five crests ; fore wings rather narrow 

 at the base, broad behind, hind margin very faintly crenu- 

 lated ; hind wings rather short, vein 5 distinct but very 

 slender, curved forward at its origin. 



Larvae cylindrical, smooth, sometimes with the twelfth 

 segment rather raised, dull coloured. 



Pup^ subterranean. 



Our three species are readily distinguished. 



A. Fore wings brown or grey-brown, mottled with darker 



brown or blackish. 



B. A pair of white dots at lower corner of reniform 



stigma ; subterminal line a series of yellowish dots. 



M. albicolon. 



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