420 noctuid.t;. 



*1748. Monima stenoptera. 



Taniocampa stenoptera, Staud. Rom. Mem. -vi. p. 497, pi. ix. f. 6 (1892) ; 

 id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 201. 



S . Head and thorax pale red-brown, abdomen paler. Fore 

 ■wing pale red-brown, the ])Ostmedial area tinged with fuscous ; 

 antemedial line yellowish, slightly incurved from eosta to median 

 uervure, then slightly excurved ; orbicular and reniform defined by 

 yellowish, rather narrow, the former oblique elliptical ; a dark 

 medial shade, ditFused from eosta to median nervure, then oblique ; 

 a yellowish postmedial line outwardly oblique from eosta to vein 7, 

 then inwardly oblique, some pale points beyond it on eosta ; 

 subterminal line yellowish, oblique, slightly incurved ; the veins of 

 terminal area yellowish. Hind wing brownish ochreous. 



JJab. Amxjeland, Ussuri. E.i'2j. 38 miUim. This species is 

 unknown to me. 



1749. Monima rubrescens. (Plate XC. fig. 16.) 



Apamea rubrescens, W\k. xxxii. 671 (1865); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 206. 

 Taniocampa venata, Smith, Ent. Am. vi. p. 123 (1890). 



S . Head and thorax pale rufous with a yellowish tinge ; palpi 

 blackish at sides ; abdomen ochreous irrorated with reddish brown. 

 Fore wing reddish ochreous, thickly striated with rufous, the 

 medial area suffused with rufous ; the subbasal line represented by 

 a curved series of three black points, below eosta and in and below 

 cell ; antemedial line obsolete ; orbicular and reniform well de- 

 veloped and with ochreous annuli, the former round with ochreous 

 centre striated with rufous, the latter filled in with fuscous ; the 

 postmedial line represented by a series of short}, very indistinct 

 whitish and black streaks on the veins ; subterminal line hardly 

 traceable, ochreous ; a terminal series of blackish points. Hind 

 wing ochreous, evenly sulfused with fuscous brown ; the cilia 

 ochreous ; the underside ochreous white irrorated with fuscous, a 

 discoidal spot, postmedial series of points on the veins and some 

 points on termen. 



Hah. Canada (Pettit), 2 S; U.S.A., iS'ew Hampshire (Kemp), 

 1 $ , New York, Pennsylvania (Kemp), 1 S - Exp. 44 millim. 



1750. Monima cruda. 



Korfna cnnJa, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 77 (1776); Kleem. Beitr. Ins. Ges. i. 



pi. 46 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 144. 

 Noctva pvlverulrnta, Esp. Scbmett. iii. pi. 76. ff. 5, 6 (1786); Staud. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 2(tl. 

 Bomln/.v nanii.% Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 244 (1809). 

 Nocliia pv^ilh, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 244 (1809). 

 Noctva amhiqvn, Hiibn. Eur. Sclimett., Noct. f. 173 (1827) ; Dup. Lep Fr 



vi. p. 61, pi. 76. f. 3. 



Head and thorax grey, more or less strongly tinged with 



