430 KOCTUID^. 



Hah. Canada, Vancouver (Danby), 5 c? > 1 ? ; U.S.A., Colorado, 

 California, Sanzalito, 3 S , type. Exp. 40-44 millim. 



Larva. Green ; dorsal and subdorsal lines white, narrow, faint ; 

 stigmatal line narrow ; a white band on the hump of joint 12. 

 — H. G. D. 



1766. Monirna alurina. (Plate XC. fig. 28.) 



Taniocampa alurina, Smith, Journ. N.Y. Eut. Soe. x. p. 47 (1902); 

 Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 167. 



Head and thorax clothed with brown hair tipped with grey ; 

 abdomen reddish brown. Fore wing purplish grey tinged with 

 reddish brown and irrorated with black ; subbasal line represented 

 by dark marks below costa and cell ; antemedial line oblique 

 towards costa, then slightly sinuous; claviform absent; orbicular 

 with obscurely defined grey annulus, round ; reniform with dark 

 centre and obscurely defined grey annulus ; a medial shade, in- 

 curved below angle of cell ; postmedial line indistinct, somewhat 

 dentate, obli(]ue from costa to vein 6 and incurved below vein 4 ; 

 Eubterminal line indistinct, greyish, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle, narrowly defined by brown on inner side and 

 with a patch before it on costal area; a terminal series of small 

 black spots. Hind wing grey tinged with pink, the terminal area 

 suff'used with fuscous ; the underside pinkish white irrorated with 

 brown, a black discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Hab. U.S.A., New York, Illinois, Chicago, in Coll. J. B. Smith, 

 Colorado, Berkeley (Oslar), 1 d . Ex^^. 42 millim. 



1767. Monirna alia. (Plate XC. fig. 29.) 



Tcenioca7npa alia, Guen. Noct. i. p. 352 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noet. N. Am. 



p. 205. 

 TcBniocam'pa hihisci, Guen. Noct. i. p. 355 (1852). 

 Orthosia inscicns, Wlk. xi. 746 (1857). 

 Orthodcs instahilis. Fitch, 3rcl Eep. N.Y. State Agr. Soc. xvi. p. 25 



(1859), iiec Schiff. 

 TcBniocampa coiiflaens, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 159 (1874). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey ; sides of palpi and 

 frons blackish ; abdomen brownish grey. Fore wing purplish 

 grey, suff'used with ferruginous red except on inner area ; subbasal 

 line very indistinct, greyish, from costa to submedian fold; ante- 

 medial line indistinct, waved, greyishj slightly defined on each side 

 by brown ; orbicular and reniform rather large, with grey anuuli, 

 the former elliptical, erect, the latter with its lower part filled in 

 with fuscous ; postmedial line greyish, slightly defined on each side 

 by brown, waved, bent outwards below costa and incurved below 

 vein 4, with a slight series of black points on the veins beyond it ; 

 eubterminal line very indistinct, greyish, slightly defined by brown 

 on inner side and with distinct dark brown marks before it above 

 and below vein 5 and in submedian fold ; a terminal series of dark 

 points. Hind wing pale thickly irrorated with brown, the terminal 



