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and followed by deep black interspaceal dashes; the usual W-inark in- 

 dicated, not very prominent; fringes blackish, dotted with pale at ends 

 of veins. Eeniform large, black-ringed, filled in with powdery, whitish 

 scales ; orbicular large, spherical, also slightly pale-powdered ; claviform. 

 concolorous, moderate; a black shade along submedian fold connecting 

 the two lines below where they are most approximate. Ordinary lines 

 double, inconspicuous; median shade black, rather faint; t. p. line lu- 

 nulate. Hind wings blackish with pale disk and fringes, which are inter- 

 lined. Thorax blackish; tarsi pale-dotted. Beneath, the wings are 

 powdered with blackish; hind wings paler, with black discal spot and 

 mesial irregular shade. Expansion^ 40 millimetres. Orono, Me. {Professor 

 Fernald). 

 Hadena tusa, n. sp. 



$ 5. — Smaller than curvata, without the prominent excavation of tbe 

 secondaries. Eyes naked ; thorax and abdomen tufted. Blackish-brow u ; 

 ornamentation indistinct. Terminal space dark, culminating in a black 

 shade above internal angle. Median lines geminate, tolerably approxi- 

 mate. Ordinary spots paler than the wing ;, reniform with interior black 

 annulus and inferior black stain. Claviform brown, and there is a nar- 

 row, sometimes incomplete dash across the median space connecting the 

 lines submedially where they are more approximate. Hind wings pale 

 fuscous, with moderate smoky borders; fringes pale, interlined. Beneath 

 pale, irrorate with brownish, with vague double exterior lines. Abdomen 

 pale fuscous, with blackish tufts. Thorax blackish-brown ; tegul^e 

 darker; a narrow black line on collar. Expansion, 28-30 miUimetves. 

 California {Mr, Henry Edwards, No. 5985; Mr. Behrens, No. 983). 



Hadena occidens, n. sp. 



$ 2 . — One of the largest species, somewhat resembling arctica. Ejes 

 naked, tibiae unarmed, abdomen with dorsal crests on the four basal 

 segments, of which the third is most prominent. Whitish-gray; in one 

 specimen the median space is shaded with brown, so that the resem- 

 blance to arctica is obvious; in the other (9) the brown is entirely 

 absent. Lines geminate, distinct. A basal black dash below the half- 

 line. Anterior line even, outwardly produced submedially, and here 

 narrowing the median space. Claviform small, outlined in black ap- 

 proaching the median shade. Posterior line scalloped interspaceally, 

 much drawn in below the submedian vein, and so narrowing the median 

 space inferiorly. Stigmata very large, shaded with pale ochrey, espe- 

 cially the ovate orbicular, annulate with blackish, the gray reniform 

 with an interior ring. Subterminal line pale, preceded by a diffuse pale 

 ochrey shading over s. t. space medially ; the line is pale, limited by 

 incomplete dark lines, of which the inner is in one specimen distinctly 

 ochreous, twice drawn in; at its last inflection at internal angle it is pre- 

 ceded and followed by a distinct black shading. Terminal black line 

 broken into interspaceal dots; fringes gray, with narrow pale basal line, 

 Bull. iv. No. 1—12 



