aynoyijimy of the r/enera of Noctiiites. 67B 



Mamestra, Ochs. 



1. Mamestra hinotata. 



Mamestra hinotata, Walker, Lep. Het., Suppl., 2, 



p. 663 (1865). 

 Haclena extersa, Walker, /. c, 3, p. 728 (1865). 

 H. curvata, Giote =pavia:, Behr. (see Grote, Check 



List, p. 27, n.450). 

 United States. Coll. B. M. 



2. Mamestra inducta. 



Mamestra inducta, Walker, Lep. Het., ix., p. 236, ii. 32 

 (1856). 



M. septentrionalis, Walker, /. c, Suppl., 2, p. 660 

 (1865). 



Venezuela and United States. Coll. B. M. 



This is labelled M. lycarum, H.-Sch., on Grote's 

 specimens. 



The Mamestra insulsa of Walker is an Agrotis allied to 

 A. albipennis (males, having white secondaries, stood 

 without a name in the Grote collection) : M. expidsa, 

 Walker, is another closely allied species. 



Mamestra nitida, Walker, is a distorted female of 

 Agrotis spina, Guen., without secondaries. 



Mamestra punctigera S , Walk., is the male of Agrotis 

 pastoralis ? , Grote. 



Mr. Barrett pointed out to me that Walker's Mamestra 

 conjigurata, from Mexico, is a slight variety of M. brassicce. 



Hadena (typical). Gum. 



I only regard this as a group of Mamestra. 



Hadena albifusa, Walk., represents H. trifolii in the 

 United States, and may not be constantly different ; in 

 our examples the primaries are far less uniformly 

 coloured, the usual markings being defined upon a paler 

 ground colour. 



The following species referred to Hadena are synony- 

 mous : — 



Hadena detracta, Walk. (Mamestra claviplena, Grote), 

 which appears to me to be a PacJinohia. 



Hadena sputatrlr, Grote = Apamea .^ insignata, Walk. 



