MAMESTEA.— BRTOPHILA. 95 



Mamestva opposita, WlJc. (Plate CLXII. fig. 12.) 

 Mamestra opposita, Wlh. Cat. xxxii. p. ('>V>~. 



Expanse 1^^ inch. 



Head and thorax smoky black ; abdomen fuscous, paler at sides. Fore wing smoky 

 black ; the costa slightly reddish ; indistinct subbasal, antcmcdial, and postmedial 

 double waved black lines; some dark strigic on the costa and pale specks towards apex; 

 orbicular and reniform with dark outlines, with a few ochreous scales inside the borders, the 

 orbicular with a V-shaped black mark below it, the reniform with a proniiiicnt ochreous spot 

 on its outer border ; a submarginal series of ochreous specks, the central ones placed ou black 

 dashes ; a scries of black marginal points. Hind wing whitish, suffused with fuscous on outer 

 area ; cilia pinkish. 



Spodoptera postfusca. (Plate CLXII. fig. 8.) 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



Female. Head, thorax, and fore wing purplish grey, variegated with dark brown and 

 whitish scales. Fore wing with a conspicuous round black spot in the end of the cell, and 

 traces of numerous waved dark lines, the most distinct of which arc double medial and post- 

 medial lines and a single broader submarginal line. Hind wing smoky brown, the basal area 

 rather paler than the outer. 



Closely allied to S. mauritia, Boisd., from which it principally differs in the dark hind 

 wings. 



Neuria retrahens, Wlk. (Plate CLXII. fig. G.) 

 Hadena retrahens, Wlh. Gat. xi. p. 757. 



Expanse ? H inch. 



Female. Head and thorax dark brown; abdomen fuscous. Fore wing fuscous brown; 

 subbasal pale spots on costa and below median nervure; an antemedial obliquely curved line; 

 orbicular and reniform with pale outlines ; a postmedial oblicpie line from the costa to beyond 

 upper angle of cell, then sharply recurved and slightly waved to submedian nervure, where it 

 joins a pale streak on the inner margin; an indistinct submarginal pale line. Iliud wing 

 fuscous. 



BRYOPHILIN^. 



Bryophila postochrea. (Plate CLXI. fig. 8.) 

 Expanse 5 1;";^ inch. 



Female. Fore wing white, with an irregular smoky black basal patch ; a triangular mark 

 from the costa before the middle to the median nervure; a broad inwardly-oblique irregularly- 



