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tarsi banded with black. Fore wiug whitish suffused with palo 

 rufous and irrorated with a few blackish scales ; subbasal line 

 indicated by faint striae from costa and coll, the aiitemedial line by 

 a slijj^ht dark point on costa ; clavit'orra very indistinct, whitish 

 defined by a few dark scales, narrow ; orbicular and renitorm small, 

 with whitish annuli defined by a few black scales, the former elon- 

 gate; postmedial line very indistinct and defined by whitish on 

 outer side, strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved ; subterminal line represented by a series of minute 

 white streaks with faint dark streaks before them at middle ; a 

 termioal series of black points. Hind wing whitish tinged with 

 brownish ochreous, the terminal area suffused with brown ; cilia 

 white with a brown line through them ; the underside with slight 

 brown discoidal spot and postmedial series of points on the veins. 



Hah. U.S.A., Massachusetts, New York, Long Is., 1 (^ type, Isle 

 of Shoals, Evans Centre {Grote), 1 $ , Buffalo. E.x-p. 38 millim. 



2285. Oncocnemis cibalis. (Plate C. fig. 5.) 



Oncocnemis cibalis, Grote, Can. Ent. xii. p. 244 (1880) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N, Am. p. 1(32. 



S . Head and thorax white mixed with black scales ; tegulse 

 white with slight blackish line towards tips \Ahich are rufous ; tarsi 

 ringed with black ; abdomen white tinged with brown. Eore wing 

 white irrorated with black, especially on costal and terminal areas, 

 the veins streaked with black, the cell and interspaces of postmedial 

 area white ; a slight black streak in base of cell ; a very slight 

 black streak below the cell confluent with the claviform which is 

 white defined by black, elongate and rather acute at extremity ; 

 antemedial line represented by an oblique black striga from costa ; 

 a slight black streak in middle of cell ; orbicular absent ; reniform 

 represented by a slight dark mark on lower part of discocellulars; 

 medial and postmedial lines represented by oblique black striae from 

 costa ; the costa blackish on postmedial area ; subterminal line 

 represented by an oblique series of small dentate white marks from 

 below apex to vein 2, defined by brown on inner side and wilh 

 dentate black marks before it below veins 4, 3 ; a fine slightly 

 waved black terminal line ; cilia white with two blackish lines 

 through them and blackish tips. Hind wing white ; the veins 

 brownish ; the terminal area suffused with brown ; cilia white with 

 two slight brown lines through them ; the underside with the costal 

 and terminal areas slightly irrorated with brown ; a small discoidal 

 lunule ; some fuscous suffusion before termen between veins 4 and 2. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs, 1 J . E.vp. 40 millim. 



Subsp. 1, Thorax and fore wing greyer, the latter more uni- 

 form and without the whitish patches in interspaces : the dentate 

 black marks before subterminal line more developed between veins 

 6 and 2 ; tegulae produced to a dorsal ridge. 



Hah. Canada, Alberta, Calgary (Wolley Dod), 2 d. Exjy. 36 

 millim. 



