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1164. Scotogramma defessa. (Plate LXXIX, fig. 7.) 



Mamesfra dejessa, Grote, Can. Ent. xii. p. 88 (1880) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 122. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale brownish ochreous with 

 slight dark irroration ; tarsi with dark bands. Fore wiug very 

 pale brownish ochreous with slight dark irroration ; the subbasal 

 line represented by double brown striae from costa and cell ; the 

 antemedial line rather indistinct except at costa, double, waved, 

 oblique ; claviform small, defined by black, orbicular and reuiforni 

 incompletely defined by black, the former round, opeu above aud 

 below, the latter with fuscous patch in lower part ; an indistinct 

 waved medial line angled on median nervure ; postmedial line 

 double at costa, then indistinct, strongly dentate and produced to 

 points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved, some pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line represented by a series of somewhat dentate dark marks angled 

 outwards at vein 7, excurved at middle and to tornus ; a terminal 

 series of small black lunules. Hind wing white ; the veins brownish ; 

 the terminal area suffused with brown narrowing to a point at 

 tornus ; a terminal series of dark lunules ; cilia white ; the under- 

 side with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with pale brown, 

 a dark discoidal lunule, and postmedial series of stria) on the veins. 



Hab. U.S.A., California, Santa Clara {Osten Saclen), 2 § type. 

 E.%y. 30-40 millim. 



*1165. ? Scotogramma repentina. 



Mamestra repentina, Morr. Proo. Bost. Soe. N. H. xviii. p. 118 (1875) ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am p. 123. 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale grey ; tegulte with black 

 medial line ; patagia with black lines near edges. Fore wing pale 

 grey, the medial area fuscous ; subdorsal line double, filled in with 

 fuscous ; antemedial line double, erect, waved ; claviform obsolete ; 

 orbicular large, pale, round ; reniform pale with a fuscous tinge, 

 ill-defined ; medial line strongly dentate ; postmedial line double, 

 waved, incurved below vein 4, with a dark shade beyond it indis- 

 tinct except at costa ; subterminal line yellowish fuscous, defined on 

 inner side by a dark shade, sinuous ; a terminal series of small 

 black lunules ; cilia white at tips. Hind wing fuscous, paler at 

 base ; the underside paler with the termen fuscous. 



Hah. U.S.A., New Jersey, W. Hoboken. Exp. 33 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me. 



*1166. Scotogramma orida. (Plate LXXIX. fig. 8.) 



Mamestra orida. Smith, Can. Ent. xxxv. p. 12 (1903). 



Head and thorax white, thickly irrorated with black and dark 

 brown ; abdomen less thickly irrorated ; tarsi ringed with white. 

 Fore wing white, thickly irrorated with fuscous black ; the subbasal 



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