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 Hydr^cia stramentosa. 



b. New York. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



c. Illinois. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



Hydr.ecia Salic arum. 



Mas. Ferruginea ; palpi ascendentes, articulo 2o valido, So gra- 

 cili, thorax antice cristatus ; abdomen subcinereum ; ala an- 

 tica? nitentes fasciis tribus obscurioribus, 3a marginali intus 

 pallido marginata, costa apud apicem pallido guttata, maculis 

 nigro marginatis, orbiculari transversa subelliptica, reniformi 

 extus subexcavata. 



Noctua Salicarum, Barnston, MSS. 



Male. Ferruginous. Palpi ascending ; second joint stout, 

 third slender, not one-fourth of the length of the second. Thorax 

 crested in front. Abdomen somewhat cinereous. Fore wings 

 shining, with two darker bands, the one exterior, the other margi- 

 nal and with a pale border on the inner side ; the other transverse 

 lines indistinct ; costa with some pale dots towards the tip ; discal 

 spots bordered with black ; orbicular transverse, almost elliptical, 

 much smaller than the reniform, which is slightly excavated on the 

 exterior side. Length of the body 5 — 6 lines ; of the wings 13 — 15 

 lines. 



a — d. St. Martin's Falls, Albany River, Hudson's Bay, Presented 

 by Dr. Barnston. 



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 Nephelodes minians. 

 h. New York. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



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AXYLIA INTENDENS. 



Testacea ; ala antica? ex parte ferruginea, fusco conspersce, costa 

 mar gineque exterior e ex maxima parte fuscis, lineis transversis 

 duplicatis indistinctis fuscis, orbiculari et reniformi nigro 

 albidoque marginatis, orbiculari subrotunda ; postica albidce. 



Testaceous. Fore wings partly ferruginous, with brown specks, 

 nearly wholly brown towards the costa and along the exterior 



