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PSYCHE. 



\ December 1S93. 



hairy ; the second pair armed with a terminal 

 spur, the third pair with two terminal spurs. 

 As in the two preceding genera, the radial 

 in the primaries springs from the middle of 

 the cell. Type, Macrosenta longicauda, 

 Holland. 



Macrosenta longicauda, Holl. ,$ J. 



198. M. longicauda, sp. nov. J . Palpi 

 below whitish, laterally pale fawn. Front 

 -white; collar, patagia, and upper side of 

 thorax fawn. Upper side of abdomen pale 

 cinereous; lower side of abdomen and legs 

 white. Primaries on the upper side with 

 the costal area very pale fawn, with the lower 

 two-thirds darker fawn. These two tracts 

 are separated from each other by a dark sub- 

 costal ray, which runs from the base to the 

 apex, curving upwardly to the apex, and is 

 marked about its middle by a deep black 

 longitudinal spot, swollen at its outer ex- 

 tremity. In addition the primaries are 

 crossed by geminate sub-basal and submar- 

 ginal parallel series of brownish dots. There 

 is also a very faint sublimbal transverse band 

 of gray, which runs parallel to the submar- 

 ginal series of dark dots. The secondaries 

 are uniformly fuscous on the upper side. On 

 the under side both wings are pale whitish- 

 gray, with the median area of the primaries 

 slightly darker. Expanse, 33 mm. 



Mamestra, Treitsch. 



199. M. (?) tarara, sp. nov. J . Front, 

 collar, and patagia pale golden-green. Upper 

 side of thorax greenish. Upper side of ab- 

 domen pale olivaceous ; under side of thorax, 

 abdomen, and legs pale olivaceous. The 

 primaries on the upper side are pale golden- 



green ; the fringes evenly checked with 

 darker olivaceous. The wings are traversed 

 by zigzag transverse basal, sub-ba^al, trans- 

 verse limbal, and transverse submarginal 

 lines of pale silvery-green. There is a sub- 

 triangular olive spot at the base near the 

 inner margin. The area between the basal 

 and sub-basal line is clouded with olivaceous 

 in the middle. There is an olivaceous spot 

 in the middle of the cell and another at the 

 end, both surrounded by narrow pale silvery- 

 green lines, and connected by a longitudinal 

 olivaceous shade. The area between the 

 sub-basal and sublimbal lines on the inner 

 margin is clouded with dark olivaceous and 

 the area between the limbal and submarginal 

 lines about the middle of the wing is likewise 

 clouded with the same color. The nervules 

 near their marginal extremities are marked 

 with dark olivaceous. The secondaries are 

 shining whitish, with the nervules near the 

 apex dark olivaceous. The fringes of the 

 secondaries are checked with pale olivaceous. 

 On the under side both wings are shining 

 cream v-white. 



$ . The female is much larger than the 

 male. The secondaries are blackish with 

 the fringes white checked with blackish. On 

 the under side both primaries and secondaries 

 are fuliginous. The fringes are pale oliva- 

 ceous checkered with black. Both wings 

 have an obscure discal dot and are crossed 

 by obscure incomplete transverse limbal and 

 transverse submarginal lines. Expanse, $ , 

 28 mm ; $ , 40 mm. 



I have a numerous series of this species ex 

 larva. Mr. Druce, who has examined them, 

 has referred them to the genus Mamestra, 

 with which they apparently agree, but the 

 dissimilarity in the color of the sexes is so 

 unusual as to suggest at least something 

 anomalous. 



Westermaxxia, Hiibn. 



200. W. anchorita, sp. nov. J . Front, 

 collar, upper side of thorax and abdomen 

 pale fawn. The primaries are narrowly 



