CHLORIDICA. 39 



i^. Fore -wing without promiuent dark marks ou 



costa ;; Mgcru. 



I?, Fore wing without subtermiual black point aboTO 

 tornus. 

 «•'. Fore wing without pink costal fascia. 



«/'. Foi'e wing with tlie inner area not saffusecl 

 with rul'ous ami fuscous. 

 «'. Fore wing with tlie reuilbrui stignm large 



and dark scutuliyem. 



¥'. Fore wing witli the reniform stigma obso- 

 lescent. 

 «'\ Fore wing with the postuiedial line in- 

 distinct and strongly dentate armigera. 



b''. Fore wing with tlie postmedial line 



distinct, double, and hardly dentate ... nssidta. 

 h^. Fore wing with the inner area sufl'used with 



rufous and fuscous xanthiata. 



h^. Fore wing with pink costal fascia ch'densis, 



h. Fore wing with oblique antemedial, medial, and post- 

 medial lines virescens. 



48. Cliloridea ononis. 



Xoctita oiwiu.% Schiif. Wien. Verz. p. 89 (1776); Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. 



p. 143: Esp. Sehinett. Eur. ir. pi. 172. ff. 4-(i ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., 



Noct. pi. 03. f.312; Dap. Lep. Fr. vii. pi. 119. f. 3 ; Oberth. Et. Ent. 



xviii. p. 44, pi. iii. f. 41 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 221. 

 McUclcptria septcnfrionalis, H. Edw. Papilio, w. p. 45(1884); Smith. Cat. 



Noct. X. Am. p. 289. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen Llack, clothed with olive-grey hairs, 

 the ventral surface with white hair. Fore wing whitish suffused 

 with pale olive-brown ; the basal area usuall}' reddish brown to near 

 the antemedial line which is indistinct and waved ; the orbicular a 

 very indistinct dark ring-mark ; the reniform olive-brown with 

 blackish outline and placed ou a medial brown band which is oblique 

 from it to inner margin ; the postmedial line indistinct, minutely 

 waved, excurved from below costa to vein 3, then incurved to the 

 outer edge of medial band, and with a dark band from just beyond 

 it to the pale diffused subtermiual line which is slightly angled 

 inwards at vein (J ; an obscure terminal series of darlv points some- 

 times present. Hind wing black, with short whitish streak usually 

 present in cell before the large oblique black discoidal lunule, which 

 has a whitish baud beyond it not reaching inner margin and some- 

 times interrupted at the lower extremity of discoidal lunule; more or 

 less prominent subtermiual white spots above veins 2 and 3 ; cilia 

 white, witli their bases dark on a,pical luilf. Underside whitish, 

 with the discoidal spots and postmedial band black ; fore wing 

 with black orbicular and streak below base of cell. 



ff((h. Hudson's Bay Terr. ; I>r. Columbia, Calgary ; U.S. A , 

 Colorado {Coclcerell), 1 6 ; France ; Germany, Zeller Coll., 3 o , 

 2 ? ; Switzerland, Frey Coll., 1 J , 1 ? : Italy ; Austria ; Hun- 

 OART; S.E. llussiA ; Armenia; Ckxtr. Asia : Siberia; Amur; 

 Centr. & W. CniXA. Exp. 28-32 millim. 



