MAMESTEA. — BEYOPHILA. 95 
Mamestra opposita, Wlh. (Plate CLXII. fig. 12.) 
Mamestra opposita, Wlh. Cat. sxxii. p. GG7. 
Expanse 1^^ inch. 
Head and thorax smoky black ; abdomen fuscous^ paler at sides. Fore wing smoky- 
black ; the costa slightly reddish ; indistinct subbasal, antemedial^ and postmedial 
double waved black lines; some dark strigse on the costa and pale specks towards apex; 
orbicular and reniform with dark outlines^ with a few ochreous scales inside the borders^ the 
orbicular with a Y-shaped black mark below it, the reniform with a prominent ochreous spot 
on its outer border ; a subraarginal series of ochreous specks^ the central ones placed on black 
dashes ; a series of black marginal points. Hind wing whitish, suffused with fuscous on outer 
area ; cilia pinkish. 
Spodoptera postfusca. (Plate CLXII. fig. 8.) 
Expanse 1^ inch. 
Female. Head, thorax, and fore wing purplish grey, variegated with dark brown and 
whitish scales. Fore wing with a conspicuous round black spot in the end of the cell, and 
traces of numerous waved dark lines, the most distinct of which are double medial and post- 
medial lines and a single broader submarginal line. Hind wing smoky brown, the basal area 
rather paler than the outer. 
Closely allied to S. mauritia, Boisd., from which it principally differs in the dark hind 
wings. 
Neuria retrahens, Wlk. (Plate CLXII. fig. 6.) 
Hadena retrahens, WR\ Cat. xi. p. 757. 
Expanse ? 1^ inch. 
Female. Head and thorax dark brown; abdomen fuscous. Fore wing fuscous brown; 
subbasal pale spots on costa and below median nervure ; an antemedial obliquely curved line ; 
orbicular and reniform with pale outlines ; a postmedial oblique line from the costa to beyond 
upper angle of cell, then sharply recurved and slightly waved to submedian nervure, where it 
joins a pale streak on the inner margin ; an indistinct submarginal pale line. Hind wing 
fuscous. 
BRYOPHILIN^. 
Bryophila postochrea. (Plate CLXI. fig. 8.) 
Expanse 2 1^ inch. 
Female. Fore wing white, with an irregular smoky black basal patch ; a triangular mark 
from the costa before the middle to the median nervure ; a broad inwardly-oblique irregularly- 
