EULOXCUK, 



L63 



A. Fore wing with terminal series of small black spots. 



a. Fore wing with the ground-colour white oblinita. 



b. Fore wing with the ground-colour yellowish arioch. 



B. Fore wing without terminal series ot' black spots. 



a. Fore wing bluish white irrorated with fuscous lanceolaria. 



/>. Fore wing black-brown slightly irrorated with white... insolita. 



3758. Eulonche oblinita. 



Thalcena oblinita, Smith & Abbot, Ins. Georgia, ii. p. 187, pi. 94 (1707) ; 



Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S Nat. Mus. xxi. p. Ill',), pi. iv. ft', 6, 13, 14; Smith, 



Cat. Noct, N. Am. p. 46. 

 Acronycta salicis, Harr. Ent. Corresp. 186S, p. 314, f. 44. 



Head and thorax white mixed with fuscous ; palpi with the 2nd 

 joint black above ; antenna? blackish ; abdomen white slightly 

 irrorated with brown. Fore wing while irrorated with fuscous, the 

 area below and beyond lower angle of cell whiter and a whitish fascia 

 from reniform to termen below apex ; subbasal line represented by 

 an oblique black striga from costa ; antemedial line indistinct, 

 double tilled in with white, strongly angled inwards on the veins 

 and outwards in the interspaces ; orbicular slightly and incompletely 

 defined by black, elongate elliptical ; reniform defined by black 

 points and with brownish centre, a slight diffused oblique dark 



Fig. 20.— Eulonche oblinita, J. \. 



bar above it from costa ; postmedial line indistinct, strongly bent 

 outwards below costa, then strongly dentate and with slight black 

 lunules on it, strongly incurved below vein 8, some blackish points 

 beyond it on costa; traces of a white subterminal line slightly 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and with minute dark streaks beyond it 

 in the interspaces ; a terminal series of small black spots. Hind 

 wing pure white, with series of black points on termen from apex 

 to vein 2 ; the underside with small blackish discoidal spot. 



Bab. Canada (Norman), 1 5, Nova Scotia (Redman), 1$, 

 Manitoba, Aweme (Griddle), 1 $; U.S.A., New York, 3 tf , 2 £, 

 Evans Center (Grofe), 1 S , 1 $, Ohio, 2 <3 , Distr. of Columbia, 

 Florida, Kansas, 1 <$ , Riley Co. and West to Rocky Mts. Exp. 

 40-50 millim. 



Larva. Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 170, pi. viii. ff. 29-30. 



Head shining black. Body black with a broad yellow substig- 

 matal band and a broken dotted subdorsal one; warts large, light, 

 red; each segment with a more or less distinct transverse red band; 



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