230 xoctuid.t:. 



fuscous brown suffused with blue-grey and tinged in parts with 

 red-brown ; subbasal double white striie from costa ; anteinedial 

 line double, black, inwardly oljlique, sinuous, a band of greenish 

 white irroration beyond it ; two very indistinct oldiqvie waved 

 medial lines with some greenish white scales on them; a minute 

 black spot in middle of cell; renifonn an oblique bar defined on 

 inner side by bLack and by greenish white points above and below 

 and on outer side by diffused greenish white ; postmedial line 

 black, oblique, minutely waved and defined on each side by white 

 to below vein 7, bent inwards below vein 6, excurved at vein 4, 

 then indistinctly double, oblique and slightly sinuous, some minute 

 white spots beyond it on costii ; subterminal line black, incurved 

 and obsolescent below vein 7, excurved at vein -1, then dcnible, the 

 inner line strong, the outer slight, oblique and sinuous ; the 

 terminal area striated with black and with a series of diffused 

 greenish white spots ; a series of black and white points before 

 termen. Hind wing fuscous brown suffiised with blue-srrev, the 

 l)ase, costal area, and inner margm with a red-brown tinge ; some 

 black and white irroration on basal part of vein 1 ; three indistinct 

 slighth^ sinuous dark lines beyond the cell ; postmedial line black, 

 arismg at vein 7, slightly incurved and sinuous ; terminal area 

 striated with black and with a scries of diffused greenish white 

 spots ; a series of black and white points before termen and a fine 

 ])ale line at base of cilia ; the underside greyish suffused with red- 

 brown and irrorated with brown, a small blackish discoidal spot, 

 two indistinct sinuous medial lines, a postmedial line, and traces of 

 a subterminal line. 



Ab. 1. Blacker; fore w4ng with hardly any reddish tones and 

 much less greenish irroration. 



Hah. Canada ; U.S.A., Eastern States to Florida and west to 

 the Mississippi and llocky Mts., New York, Center (Bailci/), 1 6 , 

 1 2 , Florida {Bouhhdai/), 1 S tvpe })lenii)ennis, Enterprise, 

 1 6,1 $ . E.rj). 4-2-4S "millim. 



8029. Zale undiilaris. (Plate CCXXX. fig. 2.) 



Nodtia undularis, Drury, 111. Exut. Ins. i. p. 19, pi. ix. f. 4 (1770) ; Smith, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p.'y72. 

 Homoptera nigrican.% Betliuno, Proc. Ent. Soc. riiil. iv. p. 214 (1864); 



Smith, Cat." Noct. N. Am. p. 309. 

 Ypsia umbripennis, Grote, Can. Ent. viii. p. 109 (1870). 



Head and thorax black-brown irrorated with silvery blue scales ; 

 pectus and legs dark lirown, the tai'si black ringed' with white ; 

 alidomen dark brown, the crests blackish. Fore whig black-brown 

 suff"used with silvery blue, the terminal area striated with black ; 

 subbasal line double, black, sinuous, from costa to submedian fold; 

 antemcdial line double, black, sinuous, inwardly oblique ; medial 

 area with three oblique sinuous dark lines; reniform defined by 

 black, constricted at middle and produced at upper exti'emity ; 



