90 NocTnii.ic. 



*-i-lu7. Ogdoconta carneola. 



Teli-ailla cariicola, Smitli, Trans. Am. Eul. S.jc. .wiii. p. 110 (L'^Ol); id. 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 24G. 



ITi'iiil 1111(1 thorax grey tinged with flesh-colour or purplish ; 

 ahdoineu grey. Fore wing piir])lish red irrorated with grey, the 

 me(li:il area suffused with blackish brown ; sulibasal line very 

 indistinct, lorined of wliite scales; antemedial lino fine, grey, 

 sliglitly excurved; orbicular and reniform with grey annuli, tho 

 former small, round, the latter somewhat constricted at middle ; 

 post medial line hardly defined except by the contrast between the 

 medial and postmedial areas, with slight dark streaks on the veins 

 ending iJi white points; terminal area suffused with brown; sub- 

 terminal lino hardly traceable, interrupted, irregular ; cilia dark, 

 with a grey line at middle. Hind wing yellowish tinged with 

 fuscous at base, darker towards termcn : cilia with a pale line at 

 base ; the underside pale at base, a small dark discoidal spot and 

 broad postmedial line. 



lldh. U.S.A., Now Mexico, Las Vegas. E.vp. 25 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me. 



4408. Ogdocouta cinereola. 



Placodes cinereola, Gnen. IN'oct. ii. p. 31G, pi. lo. f. 1 (1852); Herr.- 

 ScliiilT. Aiissereiir. Schmett. p. 68, f. 215 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 245 

 Miami atomaria, \\ Ik. xxxii. (575 (18(35). 



Head and thorax rufous mixed with white, the prothoracic crest 

 brown tipjjcd with white; palpi blackish with some white scales; 

 ])ectu8 and legs whitish mixed with fuscous: abdomen whitish 

 tinged with rufous and irrorated with brown, the crests darker. 

 Fore wing Avhitish suffused with rufous and slightly irrorated with 



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Fig. 22. — Ggdocoiit a cinereola, (S ■ \. 



brown, the costal half of basal area, the medial area and termen 

 suffused wil h red-brown ; subbasal line slight , white, curved, from 

 costa to median uervure ; antemedial lino white, sliglitly angled 

 outwards below costa, excurved in submedian inters])ace ; orbicular 

 and reniform with white annuli, the former obliijuc elliptical, 

 touching antemedial line, the latter figure-of-S-shaped : ])0st medial 

 line double filled in with white, strongly bent outwards below 



