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(lull fuscous brown ; subbasal line absent ; antemcdial line oblique, 

 obsolete below median nervure ; a black streak below base of cell to 

 the narrow elongate claviforra, which has a whitish annulus defined 

 by black ; orbicular elongate elliptical, with fuscous centre and 

 white annulus defined by black, connected by a strong black streak 

 with the reniform, which is small, narrow, with central fuscous line 

 and white annulus defined by black ; postmedial line rather in- 

 distinct, single, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved, the area beyond it whitish, then darkening to the very 

 irregular narrow white subterminal line, which is defined on inner 

 side by dentate black marks and on outer by black points ; terminal 

 area dark ; a slight dark terminal line ; cilia fuscous intersected by 

 dark brown and with a fine pale line at base. Hind wing yellow, 

 the terminal area broadly black. Underside of both wings yellow 

 with broad black terminal band. 



Hah. U.S.A., Nevada, California, Nevada Co. Exp. 25-28 millim. 

 This species is unknown to me ; figured from a drawing from 

 specimen in U.S. Nat. Mus. 



2253. Oncocnemis dayi. (Tlate XCIX. fig. 13.) 



Oncocnemis daiji, Gvote. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 105, pi. 3. f. 8 

 (1873); Smith, Cat. Noct. jN'. Am. p. 158. 



5 . Head and thorax brown mixed with white and black ; 

 tegulae with black line near base and whitish tips ; tarsi ringed 

 with white ; abdomen fuscous brown irrorated with white. Fore 

 wing gre)', almost -wholly suffused with purplish brown : subbasal 

 line black, defined by white on outer side, from costa to sub- 

 median fold; antcmedial line rather indistinct, filled in with white, 

 somewhat dentate ; claviform whitish defined by black and with 

 black streak from its extremity to postmedial line; orbicular and 

 reniform with black and brown centres and whitish annuli defined 

 by black, the former small, round, the latter with wliitish patch 

 beyond it ; a diffused waved medial line ; postmedial line defined 

 by whitish on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved to below reniform and sinuous to inner 

 margin, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 indistinct, white, interrupted, defined by black streaks and wedge- 

 shaped marks on inner side, except towards costa and inner margin, 

 extending to postmedial line, somewhat excurved below costa and 

 at raiddlt^ and incurved below vein 3 ; a slightly waved black 

 terminal line ; cilia cheqnered black and white and with black line 

 through them. Hind wing pale yellow suffused with brown at 

 base, the terminal area broadly black ; cilia white with a dark line 

 through them ; the underside with the costal area slightly irrorated 

 with fuscous, a small discoidal lunule, some white on tcrmen before 

 the black terminal line. 



llah. U.S.A., Colorado, 1 $ . Exp. 34 millim. 



