1')- socxciuj:. 



•1^275. Oncocnemis meadiana. 



Oifoenfmis meadiana, Morr. Proa Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, p. GO; Smith, 

 Cat. Noel. N. Ain. p. 160. 



lloud and thora.x bluish grey; abdomen whitish. Fore wing 

 bluish grey; subba.snl line absent; antemedi.il line single, regularly 

 curved ; medi.il area Blightly d irkcr ; claviform absent ; orbicular 

 well developed, defined by black and with blackish centre, round ; 

 reniform suffused with reddish and incoin|iletely defined by black ; 

 a rather diffused medial shade ; post medial line incurved from costa 

 to inner margin, intersecting lower part of reniform ; subterminal 

 line indistinct, pale, defined on eaoh side by blackish marks, irregu- 

 larly interrupted; a terminal series of black lunules; cilia with a 

 fine white line at base. Hind wing whitish with a diffused fuscous 

 terminal band ; the underside white, the terminal area suffused 

 with fuscous. 



Hah. U.S.A., Arizona. Krp. 2S millim. This species is un- 

 known to me. 



2276. Oncocnemis nigricula. 



Agrotis nigricttla, Ev. Bull. Soc. Mosc. 1847, iii. p. 79; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. 

 Schmett., Noct. f. 627 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 176. 



Head and thorax olive-brown tinged with fuscous; abdomen 

 pale olive-brown. Fore wing gl<>.>;sy olive-brown tinged with fuscous ; 

 subbasal line represented by slight fuscous strigic from costa and 

 cell ; antemedial line single, indistinct, waved ; oibiculur and reni- 

 form very faintly defined by fuscous, the former rather elongate 

 elliptical ; traces of a waved medial line ; postmedial line with some 

 diffused grey beyond it, double at costa, bent outwards below costa, 

 then minutely dentate, excurved to vein 4, then bent inwards to 

 below the reniform, some grey points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line very indistinct, greyish slightly defined by fuscous 

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

 incurved below vein 3; a fine black terminal line; cilia with a 

 dark line near base. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the 

 terminal area broadly fu.scous ; a discoidal lunule; cilia whitish 

 with a brown line near base. 



Ifdh. RrssiA, Sarepta, Zeller Coll. ; W. Tfrkestan, Saisan ; 

 W. Siberia, Altai ; Kamtscuaika. Exp. 32 millim. 



2277. Oncocnemis occata. (Plat* XCIX. fig. 30.) 



Clfophana occata. Grot*, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. t. p. 114 (1874); id. Bull. 

 Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. iii. pp. {•, 16, pi. 11. f. G ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 

 p. 160. 



cJ . Head and thorax pale rufous mixed with whitish ; upper part 

 of frons and vertex of head black ; tcgulffi with large blackish patches ; 

 tarsi banded with black; abdomen Mhite irrorated with fuscous. Fore 

 wing pale rufous, the iiiTier area to antemedial line and beyond the 



