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ish fuscous, without marks. Beneath, concolorous blackish fuscous with dot 

 on secondaries. Thorax blackish, tufted. Eyes hairy. 



Expanse, 36 m. m. No. 4583, Mr. Hj. Edwards, Sierra Nevada, 

 California. 



Mamestra comis n. s. 



i . — Stouter than laudnhilis and shaggier. Eich brownish black. Tegulae, 

 basal and subterminal spaces whitish, of various shades, slightly olive or 

 lilac. Median space rich brown with the small oval reniforra greenish white; 

 the smaller orbicular is oblique, black-ringed, a very little paler than the 

 wing. Hind wings fuscous. Anal hairs ochery. Abdomen fuscous. Beneath 

 with a gray cast, somewhat irrorate,with faint common line and reduced dots. 

 Head, collar and thorax blackish; collar with a black line; the white tegulae 

 also with an inner line. Subterminal line of the primaries olivaceous; a ter 

 minal fine pale festooned line cutting the brown fringes. 



Expanse, 26 m. m. No. 5585, coll. Mr. Hy. Edwards, Yanconver 

 Island. 



Mamestra albo^uttata n. s. 



? . — Narrow winged, glossy, black and white. Fore wings blackish with 

 white lines, the basal wide. Reniform white, subquadrate.with central shad- 

 ing; orbicular minute, black ringed, concolorous, round. Subterminal space 

 shade outwardly with whitish, relieving black cuneiform marks; fringes 

 checkered, medially interlined with pale. Secondaries pale smoky, subhya- 

 line ; abdomen untufted, shining, pale fuscous; beneath, breast and abdomen 

 whitish. Secondaries beneath whitish with smoky borders, very faint line 

 and dot. Thorax blackish with white stripe on the tegulae ; disc whitish 

 behind. 



Expanse, 2o m. m. No. 5971, Oregon ; also No. 5987, with tlie 

 thorax more white. 



Acerra muricina n. s. 



i. — Eyes hairy; antennae bipectinate; smaller than normalis,&i\A shaded 

 with brown. Prothorax brown, discolorous, tegulae gray. Primaries with 

 gray terminal space; median space shaded with brown, with the stigmata 

 whitish, varied with brown, united, forming a long U. Transverse lines 

 indicated, brown. Hind wings unicolorous brownish fuscous. Beneath, paler, 

 irrorate, with a rufous tinge; a line and spot on hind wings. 



Expanse, 32 m. m. No. 5999, Oregon, coll. Mr. Hj. EdAvards. 

 The genus seems to me related to Grapliiplwra, rather than where 

 I have placed it in describing normalii^. The thorax is broad in 

 front; abdomen not exceeding secondaries. 



