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postniodial line suffused with white, the veins of terminal half streaked 

 with black ; subbasal line black, curved, from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line oblique, waved, angled inwards in submedian fold ; 

 orbicular and reniform with slight whitish an nuli, slightly and incom- 

 pletely defined by black, the former round ; a diffused black medial line, 

 excurved at middle and forming a black spot on costa and prominent 

 patch from vein 2 to inner margin ; postmedial line double, the 

 outer line indistinct, slightly bent outwards below costa, then 

 dentate, excurved to vein 4, then strongly incurved ; subterminal 

 line formed of slight dentate white marks with short black streaks 

 before and beyond them ; a terminal series of slight black lunules ; 

 cilia chequered whitish and black. Hind wing white faintly tinged 

 with brown ; the veins darker ; the terminal area suffused with 

 fuscous ; cilia white with some fuscous points at base ; the under- 

 side with the costal area slightly irrorated with brown ; a discoidal 

 point and postmedial series of minute streaks on the veins from 

 costa to vein 2. 



Hah. U.S.A., Texas (Bel/rage), 2 c? type, Colorado, California, 

 Arizona, Maricopa Co., Phoenix (^wnre), 1 J. Exjt. 26-32 millim. 



2278. Oncocnemis strioligera. 



Oncocnemis strioligera, Led. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1853, p. 3(i8, pi. 5. 

 f. 1 ; Ev. BuU.'Mosc. 1856, ii. p. 218 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 176. 



S . Head and thorax pale brownish ochreous ; tegulae with black 

 line near base ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen whitish tinged 

 with fuscous. Fore wing pale ochreous tinged with brown and 

 irrorated with fuscous ; a more or less distinct black streak below 



Fig. 47. — Oncociiernis strioligera, (^. \. 



base of cell ; subbasal line black, curved, from costa to submedian 

 fold; antemedial line black, excurved from costa to submedian fold, 

 where it is angled inwards, then slightly dentate and somewhat 

 oblique ; claviform small, slightly defined by black ; orbicular and 

 reniform small defined by black and wnth slight brown centres, the 

 former rather elongate elliptical ; an indistinct medial line oblique 

 from costa to median nervure, then sinuous ; postmedial line black, 

 oblique from costa to vein 6, where it is angled outwards, then 

 inwardly oblique, waved ; subterminal line formed of slight pale 

 marks defined on inner side by wedge-shaped black marks, above 

 and below vein 5 extending to near postmedial line, arising from 



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