658 CATALOGUE OF 



Mamestra EGENA. 

 egena, Ld. Zool. Bot. Ver. iii. 21. 



Mamestea consueta. 

 consueta, H.-Sch. Schm. vi. 54, f. 546. 



Mamestra prodita. 

 prodita, Wlk. Journ, Lin. Soc. vi. 185. 

 Borneo. 



Mamestra albisparsa. 

 albisparsa, Wlk. Journ. Lin. Soc. vi. 186. 

 Borneo. 



Mamestra inextricata. 



Mas. Cinereo-fusca ; palpi subascendentes ; antenna* dense 

 setulosce ; abdomen basi pilis longis vestitum ; alee anticce lineis 

 tribus nigris denticulaiis duplicates, orbiculari annuliformi, 

 reniformi indeterminata interlineata, spatio marginali lineaque 

 submarginali angulosa pallidioribus ; posticce albido-cinerece, 

 fascia submarginali diffusa fuscescente. 



Male. Cinereous-brown. Palpi slightly ascending, extending 

 a little beyond the head ; second joint clothed with short smooth 

 hairs ; third extremely short. Antennae densely setulose. Ab- 

 domen cinereous, clothed with long hairs towards the base, hardly 

 extending beyond the hind wings. Fore wings with two double 

 transverse denticulated black lines ; first near the base ; second on 

 the inner side of the orbicular mark, its most prominent angle near 

 the interior border ; orbicular mark forming a nearly circular ringlet 

 which is* interrupted in front ; reniform mark indeterminate, 

 traversed by a black diffuse slightly curved and undulating line ; a 

 more exterior double black line composed of small lunules ; space 

 between the double lines slightly paler than the ground hue of the 

 wing; submarginal line zigzag, also slightly paler. Hind wings 

 whitish cinereous, with a diffuse submarginal brownish cinereous 

 band. Length of the body 8 lines; of the wings 20 Hues. 



West Canada. In the Eev. Mr. Bethuue's collection. 



