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*2260. Oncocnemis melantho. (Hate CIV. fig. 3.) 



Oncocnemis melantho. Smith, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. vii. p. 37 (189'J) ; Dyiir, 

 Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 120. 



Hear! ochreous-yellow irrorated with black ; tegulte yellow with 

 medial black line; thorax mottled w^hite and black, the tip of jn'o- 

 thoracic crest yellow. Fore wing with the base whitish; subbasal 

 line black : anteraedial area blackish at costa, whitish to median 

 nervure, oehreous to vein 1, and grey shading to ochreons outwardly 

 at inner margin; antemedial line double, Ihe inner line very 

 indistinct, the outer oblique to median nervure, then recurved ; 

 claviform ill-defiiied, yellowish; orbicular almost round, whitish 

 with a few grey scales in centre; reniform yellow defined by black 

 and with fuscous centre ; medial shade broad, black, irregular ; 

 medial area whitish at costn, greyish in cell, and yellowish through 

 middle ; postmedial line double, tbc outer line indistinct except 

 towards costa, bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate 

 and produced to white points on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then, 

 incurved ; postmedial area yellowish irrorated with grey and blaclt 

 scales and paler towards costa ; the veins of terminal area irrorated 

 with white; subterminal line interrupted, irregular, chiefly defined 

 by dark shades before and beyond it, the most prominent being a 

 blackish shade at costa and dark shades irrorated M'ith grey at middle 

 and inner margin ; terminal area grey with black shades in inter- 

 spaces ; a terminal series of black striue ; cilia yellowdsh intersected 

 with fuscous. Hind wing black with pale oehreous medial band 

 with the veins and discoidal lunule black; cilia white; the under- 

 side creamy white with broad black terminal band. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, Yosemite Valley. Exp. 34 millim. 

 This species is unknown to me ; figured from a drawing from ty[)e 

 in U.S. Nat. Mus. 



2261. Oncocnemis pudorata. (Plate XCTX. fig. 19.) 



Oncocnemis pudorata, Smith, Ent. News, Pbilad. iv. p. 99, pi. ^i. f. 8 

 (1893); id. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 63, pi. ii. f. 8 (1894); Dyar, 

 Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 126. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish tinged with brown and 

 largely mixed with black. Fore wing fuscous mixed with grej', the 

 postmedial area suffused with white ; subbasal line represented by 

 slight black spots below costa and cell : antemedial line single, 

 diffused, black, waved, oblique ; claviform moderate, hardly defined ; 

 orbicular and reniform moderate with faint greyish annuli, undefined, 

 the former round ; an indistinct diffused, waved, dark medial line; 

 postmedial line indistinct, diffused, slightly bent outwards below 

 costa, then minutely dentate, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; 

 subterminal line defined by diffused fuscous and v\ith slight dentate 

 black marks on inner side, dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 at middle ; a terminal series of small black lunules; cilia whitish 

 mixed with fuscous and with dark line through them. Hind wing 



