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disk and posterior tuftings luteous yellow. Primaries with a luteous 

 base, overlaid with bright red brown. Basal line single, angulate, black. 

 Transverse anterior line nearly upright, single, black, with a triangular 

 spot on costa and inner margin, else narrow, irregular. Basal space 

 mottled, yellow and brown. Transverse posterior line black, broken, 

 followed by a yellow shade line, outcurved over tlie reuiform. Median 

 space mainly brown, lighter below the submedian, with a smoky blotch 

 on the inner margin. Subterminal line yellow, narrow, with irregular 

 outcurves and inward teeth. Subterminal space brown, the yellow 

 more obvious toward inner margin along transverse posterior line. 

 Terminal space brown, some of the veins marked with yellow. A series 

 of small, black, terminal lunules, beyond which is a series of yellow 

 spots at the base of the fringes. Olaviform not traceable in the 

 specimen. Orbicular small, white, punctiform. Eeniform creamy, with 

 a brown central line, moderate in size, lunate in form. Secondaries 

 whitish at base, darkening to smoky outwardly, the veins smoky, 

 fringe more yellowish. Beneath whitish, reddish powdered along the 

 costal region. Extra median dusky line and discal dots on both wings, 

 and on primaries the terminal space is paler. 



Expanse, 25 mm. = l inch. 



Habitat. — Cocoanut Grove, Florida (E. A. Schwarz). 



A single good male from the U. S. National Museum. This is a 

 small, narrow, and blunt winged form like egens Walker, or more 

 like the small species of Mamestra. The bright, deep rusty brown, 

 which is the predominating shade, is altogether difterent from any 

 other described species known to me. The tarsi are brown, narrowly 

 ringed with yellow. 



Type.— Q?it. No. 4822, U.S.N.M. 



65. HADENA LUTEOCINEREA, new species 



Color a mottling of luteous and cinereous. Front and collar whitish, 

 patagia with black submargin, thoracic disk luteous, posterior tufts 

 gray; abdominal tufts blackish, abdomen pale luteous. Primaries 

 shaded with white along the costal vein and a little powdered in the 

 costal region. Basal line barely indicated on the costa. Transverse 

 anterior line marked by an oblique smoky shade on the costa, and 

 beyond that only by the difference between the yellowish base and 

 smoky median space; its course a rather small, even outcurve. Trans- 

 verse posterior line geminate on the costa, then outcurved over the cell 

 and deeply incurved below, greatly narrowing the median space in the 

 submedian interspace; defined only by the contrast between smoky 

 median and yellowish subterminal space. Subterminal line yellow, 

 irregularly angulate and sinuate, defined by the dark terminal space 

 and a preceding gray shade which fills the subterminal space at costa 

 and in the middle, leaving two yellowish blotches. A series of small, 

 black terminal lunules. A small black line or streak at base. Orbic- 



