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Reniform exceedingly large and cliaracteristic ; it is filled in inferiorly, over 

 the inception of tlie m. nervules, by a blackisli blotch. Median shade approxi" 

 mate to the reniform, a blackish streak well marked on costa, but below the 

 reniform appearing as an inwardly slightly oblique lunulated line. T. p. line 

 like the other lines, sinuous, not much exserted, lunulate with white included 

 scales. Two white costal dots before the subterminal, on a darker costal shade 

 which precedes the subterminal line on costal region to vein 7. Subterminal 

 similar to the other lines, without a very prominent W-mark ; the narrow ter- 

 minal space is dark and appears as a prominent spot opposite the cell ; a den- 

 tate terminal line ; fringes cut with dark scales as in allied species. Hind 

 wings paler in the 5 , with a line and diffuse darker border in either sex ; fringes 

 whitish. Beneath pale, with a very distinct dark common line, accented on the 

 veins, and diffuse subterminal darker shades ; discal litures more or less evident. 

 The abdomen is not crested, except incompletely at base, terminates squarely in 

 either sex, and without any external appearance of the oviduct in the female. 

 Male antennae ciliate beneath, impectinate, scaled. Thorax colored like fore 

 wings with blackish lines on collar and margining the tegulae. 



Expan&e, 34 to 36 m. m. Habitat, California (colls. Mr. James 

 Behrens, Nos. 6 and 15, and Mr. Henry Edwards, No. 173). Less 

 glaucous than the European M. sodae, H.-S., figs. GG-67, and differ- 

 ing in the details of the ornamentation. 



Mamestra cuneata, Grote, Plate 4, fig. 9, $ . 



$ $ . — Eyes hairy ; fore tibiae unarmed, size small, abdomen dorsally with 

 small tufts which are more regular in the female ; the species belongs struc- 

 turally to the same group as M. latex. Wood-brown with ashen shades, a 

 black basal streak supporting the half-line. The median lines are geminate 

 with included pale ashen shades, and approach each other on the submedian 

 interspace above vein 1, where the claviform, concolorous with the dark me- 

 dian space, nearly approaches the t. p. line. Ordinary spots similar in appear- 

 ance, pale ashen, obovate. The t. p. line is succeeded by pale nervular dots. 

 The subterminal space becomes paler before the subterminal line and, on the 

 submedian fold, at the inward angulation of the pale s. t. line, there is a distinct 

 deep yellow (ever green ?) cuneiform mark. The W-mark is obsolete ; terminal 

 space dark, concolorous with median. A terminal whitish dentated hair-line, the 

 dentations alternating with black lines, and preceded by black points. Secon- 

 daries dark fuscous with paler interlined fringes. Beneath fuscous with 

 warmer costal tints and faint common line. Thorax lined ; tegulae more or 

 less conspicuously whitish. 



Expanse, 30 to 32 m. m. Halitat, California (coll. IMr. ITy. Ed- 

 wards, No. 175). Four specimens examined. 



