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The male specimen from which the sexual characters were drawn 
came from the Tepper collection, and I have no note as to its locality. 
The harpes in this species are suddenly constricted beyond the 
clasper, and a long tip, set obliquely, expands into a broad lappet, the 
inner surface set with spinules. The clasper is a straight, cylindrical, 
corneous process, with an abruptly pointed tip. 
Morrisonia confusa Hbn. 
1816. Hbn., Verzeichniss 243, Auchmis. 
1823. Hbn., Zutr., m1, ff, 495,496, Awchmis. 
1852. Gn., Sp. Gen., Noct., 1, 142, Xylophasia. 
1856. Wlk., C, B. Mus., Lep. Het., 1x, 178, Xylophasia, 
1873. Grt., Buff. Bull., 1, 110, Hadena. 
1874. Grt., Buff. Bull., 1, 12, Mamestra. 
1880. Grt., Can. Ent., x11, 118, Mamestra. 
Fuscous brown with black powderings, very obscurely marked. 
Head with a dark frontal line, else somewhat paler. Collar usually 
pale inferiorly, crossed by a black transverse line, above which it is of 
the ground color. Patagize submargined with black. Primaries with 
the basal and median lines geminate, only partly defined, strongly 
dentate, the t. p. line sometimes white marked near internal margin. 
T. p. line well removed outwardly, consisting usually of a black, fol- 
lowed by a white line, both narrow and jagged, the white line often 
wanting or distinct only inferiorly, lightening the anal angle, and 
“sending off spurs along veins 3 and 4. In the space beyond, there are 
two dusky shades, sometimes broken into spots or dashes. <A series of 
black terminal dots. Fringes cut with pale, in perfect specimens some- 
what scalloped. A black basal streak, to which is joined the rather 
small, black-ringed claviform, from which another line often extends 
to the t. p. line. A blackish streak along hind margin. A vague 
median shade, outwardly angulate over the reniform, reaching inner 
margin close to the t. p. line. Ordinary spots large, confluent, concol- 
orous; orbicular sometimes paler, and reniform darker; pale ringed 
with a variably distinct and complete black margin. Secondaries 
whitish basally, darker outwardly, with a series of marginal lunules. 
Beneath pale, with reddish powderings and with a common outer line, 
discal spot distinct on all wings. 
Expands 33 to 38 millimetres=1.32 to 1.52 inches. 
HABITAT: Atlantic States; New York to Georgia, to Texas, to Col- 
q orado, and California. Kirkwood, Mo., April 4and 20; New Bruns- 
wick, N. J., April 28. 
This obscurely marked species has a decided Xyliniform habitus, es- 
pecially when a little rubbed. The females are somewhat narrower 
winged than the males, and in the material before me seem somewhat 
better marked. Sometimes the entire wing will be of an obscure fus- 
cous brown, powdered with black, in which the maculation can be 
made out only with great difficulty. 
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