15(5 



Tliis hitter iletorminatioii is douhtliil a.s ycL; Llic Caliluniiaii spe- 

 cies stron^My resciiihles A. Cocliruni from tlie Kustern slope but seems 

 stuiiter and iooiv.s lii<e Heri-ieii-ScliaeHor's figures above cited. 



Maiiiostra <listino1a. 



Iladena di8tincta{\h\\m.) Uroto, LiHt. N. Am. Noct. p. 15. 

 At tlic time I prepared the List I had no specimens of this species . 

 for examination. I owe a specimen to the kindness of Dr. Ilagen, 

 taken in Texas, and which enables me to correct my former generic 

 reference. 



Mamestra viciaa Orote. 



A 8i)ecies of medium size ; witli hairy eyes and unarmed tibiae, apparently 

 related to M. claviplena. The costa is a little depressed and tlie apices ])ro(luced. 

 The color is blackish gray, not blackish brown as in its ally. The narrow, 

 basal, longitudinal black streak is evident. Basal half line widely geminate. 

 The median lines are approximate inferiorly below the median vein, narrowing 

 the median space and, on the submedian interspace, the large black outlined 

 and shaded claviform spot attains the t. p. line. The ordinary spots are rela- 

 tively large, pale, whitish, very faintly warm tinted, the orbicular rounded 

 ovate, proportionally large, the reniform inwardly distinctly black margined, 

 but slightly outwardly constricted and here more vaguely defined. The t. p. 

 lino is scalloped interspaceally, apparently geminate with included whitish 

 gray shade, but the outer component line is lost. The subterniinal line is nar- 

 row, whitish gray, not very distinct, irregular, forming no W mark, preceded 

 and succeeded above internal angle by a distinct black dash on the submedian 

 interspace. An even continued blackish terminal shade ; the veins terminally 

 marked with blackish ; the fringes narrowly pale opposite the extremity of the 

 veins. Hind wings pale fuscous with soiled veins ; fringes whitish with an in- 

 ternaj line. Body parts concolorous ; abdomen tufted on the dorsum, especially 

 centrally ; ovipositor not esserted. 



Expanse, 18 m. m. St. Catherines (Geo. Norman, Esq.), Massachu- 

 setts (Mr. H. K. Morrison). 



Iladcua castanea Grote. 



j5 q .—Allied to the European Hadena ruhrirena, compared with a specimen 

 of which and Ilerricli-Schaeffer's fig. 57, our Californian species seems a wider 

 winged and heavier insect, less brightly marked and with a dark streak along 

 the submedian fold on the median space wanting in the European species. 

 Fore wings dark brown ; blackish along the terminal space. The ordinary 

 lines are black, obsoletely geminate, much as in the European form. Ordinary 

 spots large, concolorous, the claviform outlined, the reniform very large and 

 with a more or less decided yellow stain resolved into Gortyna-like spots out- 

 wardlv. A black shade along the submedian fold on the median t^pace. Sub- 



