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Male. Brownish fawn-colour. Thorax with black bands. 

 Abdomen with black crests. Fore wings here and there blackish ; 

 costal and basal marks, some imperfect transverse lines, reniform 

 and orbicular ringlets, and another ringlet behind the reniform one, 

 and marginal lunules black ; some white marks on the ringlets, and 

 a white transverse undulating exterior line. Hind wings whitish, 

 with broad brownish borders. Length of the body b\ lines ; of the 

 wings 16 lines. 



a. Mexico. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



South America. 

 Group 1. 

 Like the first European group. 



29. Mamestra c audi pes. 



Pectus, abdomen bad pedesque longissime et densissime hirta ; alee 

 antica testaceo-cinerece, fusco et rufescente conspersce, ciliis 

 linea nigrieante divisis ; posticce Jlavescente-albce, margine lato 

 nigricante. 



Mamestra calidipes, Guen, Noct. i. 189, 294. 



Brazil. 



30. Mamestra decoloea. 



Alee antica pallide testaceo-cinerece, lineis maculisgue pallidioribus, 

 macula orbiculari parva rotunda, guttis marginalibus obscu- 

 rioribus, ciliis longis densis ; postica sordide albidce, margine 

 lato cinereo. 



Mamestra decolora, Guen. Noct, i. 190, 297. 



Colombia. 



31. Mamestra crista. 



Ferrugineo-fusca ; thorax et ala antica subpurpurascentia ; abdo- 

 men fusco-cinereum ; tarsi testaceo fasciati ; alee antica lineis 

 duabus transversis indistinctis undulatis testaceis, guttis cos- 

 talibus albido-testaceis, gutta basali punctisque marginalibus 

 albidis, maculis reniformi et orbiculari testaceis nigro margi- 

 natis ; postica fuscescentes, bad cinerece, 



Noctua crista, Morritz, MSS. 



