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NOCTUID.'E. 



4407. Ogdoconta carneola. 



Tehsilla carneola, Smith, Trans. Ain. Ent. Soc. xviii. p. 110 (1891) ; id. 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 246. 



Head and thorax grey tinged with flesh-colour or purplish ; 

 abdomen grey. Fore wing purplish red irrorated .with grey, the 

 medial area suffused with blackish brown ; subbasal line very 

 indistinct, formed of white scales; antemedial line fine, grey, 

 slightly excurved; orbicular and reniform with grey annuli, tho 

 former small, round, the latter somewhat constricted at middle ; 

 postmedial line hardly defined except by the contrast between the 

 medial and postmedial areas, with slight dark streaks on the veins 

 ending in white points ; terminal area suffused with brown ; suh- 

 terminal line hardly traceable, interrupted, irregular ; cilia dark, 

 with a grey line at middle. Hind wing yellowish tinged with 

 fuscous at base, darker towards termen : cilia with a pale line at 

 base ; the underside pale at base, a small dark discoidal spot and 

 broad postmedial line. 



Hab. U.S.A., New Mexico, Las Vegas. Exp. 25 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me. 



4408. Ogdoconta cinereola. 



Placodes cinereola, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 316, pi. 15. f. 1 (1852); Herr.- 

 Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett. p. 68, f. 21 5 ; Smith, Oat. Noct. N. Am. p. 245 

 Miana atomaria, Wlk. xxxii. 675 (1865). 



Head and thorax rufous mixed with Avhite, the prothoracic crest 

 brown tipped with white ; palpi blackish with some white scales ; 

 pectus and legs whitish mixed with fuscous ; abdomen whitish 

 tinged with rufous and irrorated with brown, the crests darker. 

 Fore wing v, hitish suffused with rufous and slightly irrorated with 



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Fig. 22. — Ogdoconta cinereola, tf . \. 



brown, the costal half of basal area, the medial area and termen 

 suffused with red-brown ; subbasal line slight, white, curved, from 

 costa to median nervurc ; antemedial line white, slightly angled 

 outwards below costa, excurved in submedian interspace ; orbicular 

 and reniform with white annuli, the former oblique elliptical, 

 touching antemedial line, the latter figure-of-8-shaped ; postmedial 

 line double filled in with white, strongly bent outwards below 



