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Homohadena badistriga Grt. 



1872, Grt. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, iv, 20, Hadena. 



1873, Grt. Buff. Bull., i, 181, Homohadena. 



1875, Grt. Check List Noct , pi. i, f. 5, Homohadena. 

 1878, Liut. Ent. Coutr., iv, 9.3, Homohadena. 



Head, thorax, and primaries varying from ashen gray to fuscous 

 brown, collar always paler, head with a more reddish tint. T. a. line 

 with a slight and variable outward curve. T. p. line strongly outcurved 

 over cell, incurved but scarcely sinuate below. The basal dash is very 

 distinct to t. a. line, somewhat narrowing beyond and rarelj not attain- 

 ing the t. p. line. The superior line extends usually from the t. a. line 

 across both ordinary spots to the s. t. line, and often to the outer mar- 

 gin. The ordinary spots are usually somewhat darker, indefinite, rarely 

 obsolete, sometimes with paler rings. S. t. line very variably distinct ; 

 usually it is entirely wanting, rarely it is quite definite, irregular and 

 pale. A series of interspaceal black dashes through outer portion of 

 s. t. space usually extending to the outer margin. Quite frequently the 

 terminal space is somewhat darker, and the veins are white marked. 

 In many specimens the veins are pale marked throughout, and some- 

 times the entire costal region is paler. A series of small terminal lu- 

 nules. Secondaries varying from an almost immaculate dirty white to 

 smoky, with base paler, often with a distinct extra discal line and dis- 

 cal spot. Beneath powdery, very variable in shade, with a more or less 

 distinct discal spot and outer line. 



Expands 1.12 to 1.30 inches, 28 to 33 millimetres. 



Habitat. — Maine to Texas ; west to Kansas. 



A decidedly variable species yet easily distinguished by the very dis- 

 tinct broad, black basal dash and the longer dash through the outer 

 portion of wing. The paler collar is also a distinctive feature. The 

 species is rather common. 



The genitalia of the male are distinctive, the harpes narrow some- 

 what at the middle, slightly widening to the scarcely oblique tip, which 

 is at the inner edge fringed with spinules, and has a stout, short spine 

 at the upper angle. The clasper is long, rather slender, very slightly 

 dilated toward tip, the outer angle acutely drawn out. The larva feeds 

 on honeysuckle. 



Homohadena elda French, does not belong to this genus, but belongs 

 rather to a section of Hadena proper as that genus is at present con- 

 stituted. The genus is represented in the National Museum collec- 

 tion by a fair series of species, but all the forms described by Mr. Grote 

 from the IJTewmcegen collection are wanting. 



