1GQ NOCTUIIKK. 



oblique, the lines widely separated ; orbicular and reniform small, 

 the former defined by black, round, the latter defined by black on 

 inner side, slightly defined on outer ; a strong oblique black bar 

 from costa to reniform, and obliquely incurved dentate line from 

 lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postinedial line double filled 

 in with bluish white, the inner line indistinct except at costa, bent 

 outwards below costa, then dentate, incurved below vein 3 and 

 with blackish mark on its inner edge at submedian fold, some 

 black stria? beyond it from costa; subterminal line formed by indis- 

 tinct whitish marks in the interspaces with blackish points on their 

 outer edges, somewhat angled inwards at discal and submedian 

 folds ; a terminal series of black points with blackish streaks from 

 them intersecting the cilia, which are whitish. Hind wing whitish 

 suffused with brown, the veins brown ; a slight discoidal spot and 

 traces of diffused jjostmedial and subterminal lines ; a slight dark 

 terminal line ; the underside whitish tinged and irrorated with 

 brow r n, especially on costal and terminal areas, a blackish discoidal 

 lunule with slight dark bar above it from costa. 



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3763. Merolonche ursina. (Plate CXXVII. fig. 12.) 



Merolonche ursina, Smith & Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 180, pi. x. 

 if. :>, G (1899) ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 105. 



5 . Head and thorax white mixed with dark brown and black ; 

 p.itagia with black streaks on outer edges and basal half of inner 

 edges ; tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen grey irrorated 

 with black and suffused with black-brown. Fore wing grey-white 

 thickly irrorated with black and suffused with black-brown, espe- 

 cially on medial area and beyond the postmedial line ; subbasal 

 line represented by two black points on costa ; antemedial line very 

 indistinct, double, waved, curved; orbicular defined by blackish, 

 rather elongate elliptical and with slight black streak from it to 

 the reniform, which is suffused with fuscous and indistinctly de- 

 fined by blackish points ; an indistinct diffused dark bar from costa 

 to reniform ; postmedial line black defined on either side by grey, 

 bent outwards below costa, then dentate, slightly angled inwards 

 at discal fold and strongly incurved below vein 4, some whitish 

 points beyond it on costa; subterminal line formed by lunulate 

 whitish marks in the interspaces, defined on outer side^ by slight 

 dark points, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, and somewhat 

 angled inwards at discal and submedian folds; a terminal series of 

 small black spots; cilia chequered black and white. Hind wing 

 whitish suffused with brown except at termen ; a faint discoidal 

 spot and indistinct diffused subterminal line ; a terminal series of 

 blackish points ; cilia chequered blackish and white; the underside 

 white tinged with brown and irrorated with dark brown, a blackish 

 discoidal lunule. 



