Dianthoecia palilis^ n. s. 



S 2 . — This is a pale yellow-gray species with something of the tone of 

 insolens. The male has the hind wings pure white, immaculate, the female 

 fuscous. The ordinary lines are approximate ; the inner line of the t. p. line 

 fine, black, regularly waved, in the female the line is not defined. The median 

 space is narrowed iuferiorly. Both sexes show the median shade as a distinct 

 black ill-defined shade spreading to a blotch on the cell between the obsoletely 

 ringed stigmata ; there is a more yellowish shade on the median space inf erior- 

 ly. Subterminal line obsolete or indicated by a fuscous blotching. The female 

 primary is darker than the male. Head, thorax and abdomen above concolor- 

 ous with the ground color of the wings. Palpi black at the sides. Feet dotted 

 black and pale, else the vestiture is j)ale on the legs and body. Eyes hairy ; 

 oviduct feebly exserted. 



Expanse, 28 m, m. Hal)., Texas (Belfrage). 



Mamestra luarinitincta, n. s. 



$, . — This small species has the thorax and fore wings entirely of a delicate 

 greenish gray. The sides of the tegulae are black. The narrow palpi are 

 black laterally. The median lines are black, very approximate inferiorly 

 and the small black outlined claviform nearly spans the median space. 

 The median space is more brown or blackish than the rest of the wing. 

 The t. p. line is regularly scolloped ; the t. a. line is convex, nearly even, 

 well marked. The orbicular is rounded, small, black-ringed, concolorous. 

 The reniform is empty, very little constricted, of the pale greenish color 

 of the wing which obtains over the costal region of the median space. Sub- 

 terminal line obsolete. Hind wings blackish fuscous, paler at base, with 

 whitish interlined fringes and traces of an outer line more apparent beneath 

 where they are whitish, irrorate on costal region and show a distinct discal 

 dot. Fore wings beneath blackish, except along internal margin where thev 

 are whitish. Tibiae and tarsi black and gray marked ; eyes hairy. 



Expanse, 25 m. m. Hah., Texas (Belfrage, Xovember). 



Homohadena atricollaris, n. s. 



A small species very similar to hadintrign, differing by the shaded black 

 streak from the base outwardly to the exterior margin being apparently sin- 

 gle, there being no distinct submedial basal and cellular streaks as in badistriga. 

 The course of the median line is the same. The black shade includes a white 

 cellular spot near the t. p. line. This latter is a little more uneven than in 

 its ally. The collar is not jialc l)ut marked with drcp black at the base, nar- 



BUL. BL'F. SOC. NAT. SCI. (33) FEBRUAUT, 1875. 



