l.)L' NOCTCin.K. 



Hlnlonu'ii black i.sh. roic winfj grcy-whito irroratcd with hlackish ; 

 Mibbasal line black iK lined by white on inner side: antcnicdial 

 line black defined by whitish on outer side, oblique waved ; 

 davifurni rejtresented by u slight whitish streak ; orbicular 

 small, round, with lilackish centre and whitish annulus ; reniJurm 

 narrow, black and white with white sufriision beyond it cxtendinj; 

 to just beyond iiostmediul line, which is double at costu, then 

 single, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurvcd to vein 4, then 

 somewhat incurved, defined by whitish on outer side ; subterniinal 

 line very irregular, whitish, deliiied on inner side by black sutl'usion 

 and slight dentate black marks, angled outwards at veins 7, H, 4, 3 

 and inwards at discal and submedian folds ; terminal area rather 

 ]»aler except at apex; a terminal series of small black lunules ; 

 cilia blackish intersected with white. Hind wing black with a 

 large medial triangular whitish patch from costa to vein 1 ; a 

 blackish discoidal luiiule ; cilia white. liiderside black with 

 broad white medial band; fore wing with the termcn white 

 expanding into irregular patches. 



JIah. U.S.A., California, Yoscmite Valley, A>y>. 25 raillim. 

 The species is unknown to mc ; figured from a drawing fiom type 

 in Coll. J. B, Smith. 



2259. Oncocnemis albifasciata, n. n. (Plate XCIX. fig. IS.) 



Otiniciiemi^'faio-iatiis. i^mWh, Inc. Life, i. p. 18(1888). iicc II. Edw. 188(i; 

 8iiiith, Cut. Nuci. N. Am. p. loll. 



J. Head, thorax, and abdomen dull fuscous grey irrorated with 

 a few black scales ; teguljc with slight medial dark line and line 

 near tii)s. Fore wing with the basal half pale ash-grey irrorated 

 with dark scales ; subbasnl line prominent, black, from costa to 

 submedian fold ; antcnicdial line prominent, black, excurved below 

 costa and cell ; claviform defined by black at extremity ; orbicular 

 and reniform moderate, the former round with red-brown centre 

 and whitish annulus defined by black, the latter white defined by 

 black ; a diffused medial black line angled outwards on subcostal 

 and median nervures, then incurved ; postnndial line black, bent 

 outwards below costa, very strongly incurved below vein 4 to lower 

 edge of reniform and origin of vein 2; jmstnudial area whitish, 

 then brown suflused with fuscous, indented by whitish streaks at 

 veins <i and 5; some white jioiiits on costa towards apex: sub- 

 terminal line wliitish with black suffusion before it and gny-bniwu 

 beyond it, defined on inner side at middle by dentate black marks, 

 somewhat dentate and at veins 7, <», 4, 'A almost to lernicn; a 

 terminal series of sni;ill biack lunules ; cilia cheiiuered wliitish and 

 fuscous. Hind wing with tlie basjil area dull smoky brown fol- 

 lowed by an oblique diffused black antomedial line, then a broad 

 white band, the terminal half black; cilia black at base, white 

 at tips ; the underside with the antomedial band very strong, the 

 white area angled outwards into the black at discal fold. 



llnb. Canada, N.W. Brit. ColunibL-t, 1 c^ ; U.S..\.. ('.dorado, 

 California, Nevada Co. A'cy. 32 millim. 



