23i! NOCXUIU.E. 



8034. Zale minerea. (Plate CCXXX. fig. 8 6,9 2 •) 



Homopfera minerea, Guen. Noct, iii. p. 15, pi. 18. f. G (1852); Sinitli, Cat, 



Noct, N. Am. p. S69. 

 Ilomo-plera involuta, Wlk. xiii. 1055 (1857). 

 Homnptera alhofasciafa, Batliiinc, Canadian Journ. x. p. 256 (1865) ; 



Sinitli, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 370. 

 Tlmocijma nonlu, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxxv. p. 2-36 (1909). 



c? . Head and tliorax bright red-brown mixed witli some ochreous 

 white ; tegidie witli black line near has.' ; ])alpi irrorated with 

 black; frons with black lateral bars; tibial irrorated with black, 

 the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen rufous irrorated with 

 a few black scales and with shght black segmental lines, the l.><t 

 segment darker, the ventral surface grey irrorated with brown. 

 Fore wing bright rufous variegated with some yellowLsh, the basal 

 area red-brown irrorated with blackish, the terminal area grey- 

 white tinged with rufovis ; subbasal line double, blackish defined by 

 some grey scales, obliquel}' curved from costa to submedian fohl, 

 the lines well separated; antemedial line double, blackish defined 

 on each side by some grey, sinuous, inwardly oblique below the cell, 

 the lines well separated ; a double oblique irregularly sinuous red- 

 brown medial line ; a patch of red-brown suffusion from middle of 

 costa enclosing the reniform which is indistinctly defined ; post- 

 medial line double, minutely waved and blackish to vein 5, then 

 rufous, excurved at vein 4, then oblique and sinuous, a red-brown 

 patch beyond it on costal area with some white points on costa ; 

 subterminal line double defined on outer side by white, the inner 

 line black towards costa and below vein 4, sinuous, oblique below 

 costa, excurved at middle, then incurved, an oblique brown bar 

 beyond it from apex and a patch at middle; a series of brown 

 jioints before ternien ; cilia red-brown mixed with dark brown. 

 Hind wing bright rufous, the basal area tinged with grey and 

 irrorated with some black scales, the terminal area striated with 

 blackish ; three double sinuous brown lines beyond the cell ; post- 

 medial line double, the inner line black, minutely waved and slighth' 

 bent inwards between veins 5 and 2, defined on outer side by white 

 and followed by a diffused greenish grey band from vein 5 to 

 tornus ; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Underside whitish tinged 

 Avith rufous and irrorated with brown ; fore wing with diseoidal 

 lunule deiined by black, curved minutely waved ]X)stmedial line, 

 and slight subterminal line; hind wing with black diseoidal lunule, 

 two sinuous lines beyond the cell, a sinuous minutely waved post- 

 medial line, and slight subterminal line. 



Ab. 1. alhoj'asciata. Wings with the terminal area coneolorous, 

 the subterminal line defined on outer side by white. 



Ab. 2. Similar but with the subterminal line not defined on 

 outer side by white. 



$ . Fore wing more uniform brown without the red-brown and 

 OL-hreous shades. 



Ab. 3. Fore wing ochreous whilish prominently striated with 

 brown, the basal area obliquely from above end of cell and the 



