oNcorxKMis. 1().3 



orliicular and reuifoi'm moderate, faintly defined by black, the 

 former rather elongate elliptical, the latter with a slight fuscous 

 mark in lower jiart ; postmedial line with two fuscous points at 

 costa, then very indistinct and slightly defined by whitish on outer 

 side, hunt outwards below costa, strongly excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved to be^ow reniform and minutely dentate ; the veins of 

 terminal area streaked with black ; subterminal line represented 

 by some minute whitish lunules with slight dentate black marks on 

 inner side and faint dark streaks beyond them in the interspaces; 

 a terminal series of minute black lunules ; cilia chequered ochreous 

 white and fuscous. Hind wing white with a faint brown tinge ; 

 the veins darker ; the terminal area suffused with brown between 

 veins 7 and 2; cilia white with a slight brown line near base; 

 the underside white with slight brown irroratiou on costal and 

 terminal areas ; a slight discoidal lunule. 



Hah. U.S.A.. Arizona, Jerome (Oslar), 3 (^ , 1 $ co-type. Exji. 

 30-32 millim. 



2281. Oncocnemis augusta. (Plate C. fig. 1.) 



Oncocnenih augustus, Harv. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. iii. p. 73, pi. 3. f. 5 

 (1875) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. i5'J. 



Head and tegulae whitish tinged with rufous ; sides of palpi and 

 frons with some black scales ; tegulae with black line near base and 

 rufous tips ; thorax rufous mixed with fuscous ; pectus and legs 

 white ; abdomen white dorsally tinged with brown and irrorated 

 with fuscous. Fore wing pale rufous irrorated with black, the 

 medial and terminal areas slightly suffused with fuscous ; subbasal 

 line represented by black striai from costa and cell ; autemedial line 

 waved ; claviform large, pale rufous defined by black ; orbicular and 

 reniform with rufous centres and ochreous annuli defined by black, 

 the former round ; a diffused waved medial line forming a black 

 ])atch between the stigmata ; postmedial line bent outwards below 

 costa, then dentate, obliquely incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal 

 line formed of dentate whitish marks defined on inner side by 

 dentate black marks ; a terminal series of small black lunules 

 defined by whicish on inner side ; cilia white mixed with fuscous 

 at tips. Hind wing white with difi'used brown subterminal band 

 and fine brown terminal line ; the underside with small discoidal 

 spot and slight curved postmedial line, obsolete on inner area. 



Hub. U.S.A., Texas, 1 J type, Colorado (Bruce), 1 c5' , Berkeley 

 (Oslur), 3 <5, California, 1 $, Arizona, Maricopa Co., Phoenix 

 {Kunze), 7 cS , 'i 2 • Exp. 34-3G millim. 



*2282. Oncocnemis flagrantis. (Plate C. fig. 2.) 



Oncocnemis fiagrantis, Smith, Ins. Life, v. p. 330, f. 9 (1393) ; Dyar, Cat 

 Lep. N. Am. p. 111. 



S. Head and thorax grey-white slightly mixed with brown; 



