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Mamestra rosea, Rarvey. 



$ . — This is a stout species vvitli liairy eyes and unarmed tibiae. The ab- 

 dominal tufts are confined to the basal segment, and the thoracic tufts are not 

 very obvious. Antennae simple, bristled beneath. The color is unusually 

 pale. It is a very light and pale testaceous reddish ; the thorax, head and 

 basal tuft deep brownish red. The fore wings have the terminal apace deep 

 red, with the outer portion of the subterminal space deep brownish red, and 

 these marginal shades contrast with the pallor of the rest of the wing, so 

 that we are reminded of the species of Heliothis. T. a. line single, thrice 

 waved outwardly oblique, deep reddish. Claviform outlined with the same 

 shade, while the annuli of the stigmata are similar, merely fine reddish lines ; 

 the reniform includes an inferior blackish stain. The diffuse reddish median 

 shade is quite noticeable. Stigmata large ; orbicular circular ; reniform mod- 

 erately outwardly excavate. T. p. line a distinct intei'ipaceally festooned red- 

 dish line, not running suddenly inwardly below median vein, nor much 

 exserted opposite the cell, approaching the t. a. line at internal margin, owing 

 to the greater obliquity of the latter. Fringes reddish, checkered with deeper 

 red. Hind wings very pale, with faint exterior transverse lines and terminal 

 brighter dustings. Beneath, very pale with reddish borderings and double 

 exterior reddish lines and discal point on secondaries. Abdomen pale, shaded 

 with fuscous. 



Expanse, 40 m. m. Hub., Maine (Prof. Packard). 



Mamestra lilaciiia^ Ilarvey. 



2 . — A rather wide-winged species with hairy eyes and unarmed tibiae and 

 with somewhat slender body parts, weakly tufted. It is allied to M. hrassicae 

 and M. Farnhami. The primaries are blackish, with lilac-gray shadings. 

 Basal half-line distinct, black, irregular. T. a. line geminate, waved, black- 

 ish, the outer line the more distinct with distinct gray filling. The orljicular 

 is oblique, large, gray, with a darker central shade, and below it, beyond the 

 claviform and beneath the median vein at the base of vein 3, is a pale gray 

 shade, extending to the median shade line, and similar to what is displayed by 

 M. Farnhami. Claviform concolorous, with distinct black defining line. 

 Reniform erect, gray, Avith a central darker annulus. T. p. line geminate, 

 lunulate, its inner black scalloped line distinct, with gray filling. Subter- 

 minal space shaded with gray, more obviously inferiorly. Subterminal line 

 pale, distinct, continued, with a strong costal deflection bending inwardly ; a 

 distinct apical gray patch surmounting the blackish concolorous terminal 

 space. Fringes dark with a darker hair line, and very narrowly cut with 

 pale at the extremities of the veins. Hind wings fuscous, deej)er shaded 

 terminally, with a faint fuscous rivulous exterior line and discal shade. Be- 

 neath fuscous, sprinkled with gray shades and double, more or less distinct 

 common lines and discal marks. 



Expanse, 35 m. ni. Ht(h., Browsters, N. Y. (C. T. Robinson). 



