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Postmedial fine crenulate. A fine terminal black line, saggitate on veins. Secondaries 

 whitish hyaline, smoky along the outer margin. Expanse, 34 mm. 



Habitat: Orizaba, Mexico. 

 Mamestra gavisa, sp. nov. 



Body brown. Primaries dull brown, somewhat shaded with rufous ; a black 

 streak at the base ; the veins indistinctly grayish ; the antemedial pale fawn color 

 finely edged with dark scales ; the orbicular and claviform finely outlined with dark 

 scales ; the reniform grayish with a distinct white line outwardly, the postmedial 

 fawn color, slightly crenulate and finely edged with dark scales ; the terminal space 

 except at apex dark gray with a terminal row of yellowish spots ; the fringe mottled 

 gray and fawn color. Secondaries brown, pale at the base. Underneath a post- 

 medial lice and discal spot on both wings. Expanse, 32 mm. 



Habitat : Las Vigas, Cobre de Perote, Mexico. \ 

 Mamestra ciniva, sp. nov. 



Head and thorax gray. Abdomen light bro wn. Primaries silvery gray, thickly 

 speckled with white scales ; an interrupted black basal line ; the antemedial line 

 black, oblique from the costa to middle of inner margin ; the median space a trifle 

 darker ; some subterminal black scales ; a terminal gray line ; fringe white with two 

 gray lines ; the orbicular and reniform very indistinct and faintly outlined with black. 

 Secondai ies whitish ; ihe veins and outer margin smoky. Expanse, 22 mm. 



Habitat: Oaxaca, Mexico. 



This species somewhat resembles M. anguina Gr., and M. vecina 

 Gr., but is much smaller. 



Hadena dyschoroides, sp. nov. 



Body reddish brown. Primaries light reddish brown, the terminal space except 

 at apex dark brown ; the basal line black, geminate, indistinct ; the antemedial dark 

 brown, sinuate, a dark median transverse shaded, angled below costa ; the postmedial 

 fine wavy, dark brown inwardly shaded with violaceous and outwardly followed by 

 two rows of dark points ; the dark terminal space preceded by a wavy violaceous line, 

 a bright yellow spot in the reniform. Secondaries brown, the fringe reddish. Un- 

 derneath grayish brown ; a dark postmedial spot on costa of primaries. Secondar.es 

 with a discal spot and postmedial line. Expanse, 21 mm. 



Habitat : Orizaba, Mexico. 

 Hadena orizabena, sp. nov. 



Head and thorax violaceous brown ; abdomen light brown. Primaries violaceous 

 brown ; the central portion of median space darker ; some dark scales at the base ; 

 the antemedial line paler, irregularly oblique from costa to a paler space on the middle 

 of inner margin ; the postmedial similar, slightly sinuate to middle of inner margin 

 also, but not quite touching the antemedial line ; orbicular very indistinct, reniform 

 with a large white spot ; a subterminal row of white points inwardly preceded by 

 sagittate dark violaceous shadings. Some minute reddish brown spots on costa and 



