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NOCTUID^. 



and scales ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen ochreous brown, the 

 Tontral surface dark brown mixed with ochreous. Fore wing grey- 

 brown, ahnost entirely sutfused with fuscous but leaving the 

 terminal area prominently paler ; subbasal and antemedial lines 

 double filled in with pale colour, waved, the former from costa to 

 vein 1, the latter rather oblique ; claviform minute, incompletely 

 defined by black ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the 

 former round, the latter whitish with some brown in centre and 

 slightly concave towards base ; medial line minutely waved, angled 

 at median ncrvure ; postmedial line double, minutely dentate, bent 

 outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4, some pale points 

 on costa beyond it ; subterminal line pale, defined on inner side by 

 a series of dentate black marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle, the pale area beyond it traversed by obscure 

 black streaks above and below vein 5 ; a terminal series of small 

 black lunules; cilia blackish intersected with greyish. Hind wing 

 fuscous brown, the basal area paler ; cilia ochreous white with a 

 dark line through them ; the underside pale tinged with ochreous 

 and irrorated with fuscous, a small discoidal spot and sinuous post- 

 medial line. 



Hub. U.S.A., Arizona, in U.S. Nat. Mus, Eocp. 34 millim. 



1533. Hyssia gussata. (Plate LXXXY. fig. 25.) 



Mamestra gussata, Smith, Ent. News Philad. vi. p. 337, pi. xv. f. 9 (1895) ; 

 Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 152. 



S . Head and thorax grey mixed with brown, some black scales 

 near upper edge of patagia ; tarsi fuscous ringed with white ; 

 abdomen ochreous brown, the dorsal crest grey and brown, the 

 ventral surface grey irrorated with brown. Fore wing brownish 

 grey irrorated and suffused with purplish fuscous ; subbasal line 

 represented by double striae from costa and cell, the latter with 

 curved black mark on inner side running to base ; the antemedial 

 line black defined by whitish on inner side, angled outwards and 

 interrupted below costa, oblique to submedian fold, then angled 

 inwards on vein 1 ; claviform small, defined by black and connected 

 by a black streak with postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform 

 large, incompletely defined by black, the former oblique elliptical, 

 the latter with some fuscous in its lower part ; traces of a curved 

 medial shade ; postmedial line indistinctly double, somewhat den- 

 tate and produced to grey and black streaks on the veins, bent 

 outwards below costa, incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line 

 indistinct, pale, with traces of minute dentate black marks on inner 

 side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal 

 series of slight black lunules. Hind wing whitish thickly irrorated 

 with brown, a terminal series of dark stria? ; cilia white ; the 

 underside with black discoidal lunule and indistinct curved post- 

 medial line. 



Bab. Canada, Alberta, Calgary {Wolley-Docl), 1 c? • Exp. 

 42 millim. 



