LEPIPOLYS. — ONCOCNEMTS. 145 



B\nW(Doahledai/),7 d type, Texas, Colorado, California, T^.i^). 32- 

 40 millim. 



Larva. Dyar, Proc. Eut. Soc. Wash. v. p. 292 (190.3). 



Head sordid whitish with many small black spots. A dorsal 

 hand of broad elliptical Avhite spots, two on each segment ; a 

 broad white stigmatal band centred by the spiracles. Body shaded 

 with olivaceous blackish, tubercles large, blackish brown, the sub- 

 ventral ones white ringed ; cervical shield and anal plate white 

 with black dots ; spiracles black ; feet pale. Food-plant, Linaria 

 caHadensis. — H. G. D. 



Genus ONCOCNEMIS. 



Type. 



Onrorne/iu.i, LpcI. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1853, p. 368... strio'ligcra. 



Copihidfiia, Morr. Can. Ent. vii. p. 91 (1S7.5) atrkollaris. 



Metahadena, Morr. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 187'), p. 431... atrifasciata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; p;ilpi obliquely uptiirnecl, the 2nd joint fringed 

 with long hair in front, the 3rd porrect ; frons smooth; eyes large, rounded; 

 antennre f)f male ciliated ; head and thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- 

 and metathorax with spreading crests ; fore tibia short with curved claw at 

 extremity on inner side and sometimes a minute claw on outer side ; abdomen 

 with some rough hair at base but without crests. Fore wing with veins 3 and 

 ^ from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 

 8 to form the areole ; 1 1 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of 

 cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Hind wing yellow. 



a. Fore wing with the orbicular elongate elliptical and con- 

 nected with the reniform by a black streak mirificalis. 



h. Fore wing with the orbicular rounded, not connected 

 with the reniform by a black streak. 

 rt*. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines double 



filled in with white dayi. 



i'. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines single. 

 a-. Fore wing with the antemedial line distinct, dentate. 



a}. Fore wing with the ground-colour rufous hayesi. 



h^. Fore wing grey tinged with ochreous reghia. 



l)^. Fore wing with the antemedinl line hardly 

 traceable. 

 a^. Fore wing with the basal half brown suffused 



with grey eut a. 



Ifi. Fore wing blackish with a silky gloss to post- 

 medial line corusca. 



B. Hind wing not yellow. 



a. Hind wing with the basal area dark, a whitish medial 

 band and black terminal band, 

 ft'. Hind wing with the medial whitish band not reaching 



inner margin e.remplaris. 



h^. Hind wing with tlie medial whitish band reaching 

 inner margin. 

 a?. Fore wnig viith the reniform filled in with white ... alhifasciafa. 

 //-. Fore wing with the reniform yellow defined by 



black and with fuscous centre melantho. 



C-. Fore wing with slight pale annulus to reniform. 



d^. Hind wing with the medial whiti.sh band broad... pudorata. 

 fi-K Hind wing witli the medial whitish band narrow, icmiifugria. 

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