23G 



NOCTUIDJ;. 



.S03G. Zale Inuifera. ( Plate CCXXX. lig. 11.) 



rh<Bocyma iunifcra, Iliibn. Ziitr. Ex. Schniett. p. It), ff. 97, 98 (1818) • 



Siiiitli, Cat.. Noct. N. Am. p. 368. 

 Homopfcra lincosa, Wlk. xiii. 1050 (1857). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with oehreous ; palpi, pectus, 

 and legs oehreous mixed with brown, the tarsi blackish with pale 

 rings ; a])d()inen greyish tinged with red-brown. Fore wing grevish 

 suffused with rufous and with slight dark irroration, the basal area 

 deeper inifous; subbasal line double, blackish, slightly defined on 

 inner side by Avhite, excurved below costa and ending at subniedian 

 fold ; antemedial line double, blackish, the inner line indistinct, 

 sinuous, inwardly oblique below submedian fold, a band of whitish 

 suffusion beyond it ; two oblique- somewhat dentate medial dark 

 lines ; reniforni a dark brown lunule ; postmedial line black, angled 

 outwards below vein 7, incurved at discal fold, excurved at vein 4, 

 then oblique and sinuous, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line double, brown, incm'ved on costal half, excurved at 

 vein 4, then again incm'ved, some whitish suffusion be3"ond it, an 

 obliqu^e dark shade from apex, and some dark suffusion at middle 

 of terminal area ; a slight crenulate brown terminal line. Hind 

 wing greyish suffused with red-brown, the terminal area faintly 

 striated with brown ; three indistinct waved brown lines beyond the 

 cell slightly defined on outer side by whitish ; postmedial line 

 double, black, sinuous, the outer line slightly defi)ied on outer side 

 by whitish, somewhat incurved between discal and submedian folds 

 where there is a band of whitish suffusion bej'^ond it ; a slight 

 crenulate brown terminal line ; the underside greyish tinged and 

 irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal point, faint sinuous medial 

 line, dark postmedial line waved on costal area, and faint sub- 

 terminal line. 



Ab. 1. Jineosa. Wings less strongly tinged with red-brown, 

 the medial line more distinct. 



Hah. Canada, Ontario, Orillia (Bush), I S ; U.S.A., Eastern 

 States to Texas and west to the llocky Mts., 7 d , 4 $ type 

 lincosa. Exp. 42-48 milHm. 



Larva. Packard, Bull. Dep. Agric. Eiif. xii. )i. 22 (1886). 



Wood-brown sometimes tinged with reddish or greenish ; dorsal 

 line dark ; lateral line white defined below b^- the pale red spira- 

 cular line ; a lateral series of black dots ; venti-al surface })ale 

 glaucous green ; 8th somite with a pair of small dorsal tubercles 

 n'presented on the other segments by oblique dashes, the penulti- 

 mate segment with a transverse ridge ; head reddish with oval or 

 V-shaped white spots at sides. Food-plant, Pinus. Pupa with a 

 slight whitish bloom. 



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8037. Zale peuua. (Plate CCXXX. fig. 12.) 



Ilomopfera jtcnna, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. II. xviii. p. 241 (1875) ; Smith, 

 Cat. Koet. N. Am. p. 371. 



Head ami thorax oehreous mixed with red-brown ; palpi irrorated 



