DISCESTEA. 15 



A. Fore wing with the grouncl-colour whitish ; the claviform 



large, filled in with brown. 



a. Fore wing white, slightly tinged with yellowish florida. 



It. Fore wing whitish, distinctly tinged with brown chartaria. 



B. Fore wing tinged with ochreous ; the claviform small, not 



filled in with brown. 



a. Fore wing with the reniform defined by black below .. eremisiis. 



b. Fore wing with the reniform not defined by black below ... arenarla. 



*1136. Discestra florida. (Plate LXXXVI. fig. 1.) 



Mamestra florida, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 465 (1900) ; Dyar, 

 Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 156. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen white, slightly irrorated "with 

 yellowish and fuscous scales. Fore wing white, slightly irrorated 

 with yellowish and fuscous scales ; subbasal line represented by 

 double black striae from costa to median nervure ; antemedial line 

 double, black, angled outwards in submedian fold and excurved 

 below vein 1 ; claviform moderate, filled in with black ; orbicular 

 a very small black annulus ; reniform filled in with black, ill- 

 defined; median shade oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, 

 then less distinct ; postmedial line double, the inner dentate, the 

 outer even, excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; sub- 

 terminal line white, defined by fuscoiis on inner side and with 

 blackish patches before it at costa and discal fold, slightly angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of 

 blackish lunules. Hind wing white, a punctiform postmedial line, 

 diffused subterminal band, and terminal line fuscous. 



Hah. U.S.A., Florida, Biscayne Bay. Exp. 32 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me ; figured from a drawing from type in 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. 



1137. Discestra chartaria. 



Mamestra chartaria, Grote, Bull. Buff". Soc. Nat. Sei. i. p. V6S, pi. iv. f. 12 

 (1873) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 122. 



S • Head and thorax white mixed with brown ; tegitlte with 

 black medial line ; patagia with black line near upper edge ; tarsi 



Fig. 7. — Discestra chartaria, (^ . \. 



with black bands ; abdomen ochreous white, dorsally suffused with 

 brown. Fore wing white, more or less strongly irrorated and 

 suffused with pale reddish brown and fuscous ; subbasal line 

 double, waved, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line double, waved. 



