240 noctuidj:. 



Hah. U.S.A., Now York, Center {Bailey), 1 6 , Pennsylvania, 

 Missouri, Kirkwood, N. Carolina, Tryon, Florida, Seven Oaks, 

 cotype t in Coll. W. Barnes, Paliuboaeli. Exji. 50 milliiu. 

 Probably a variety of Z. ohliqua. 



8042. Zale duplicata. (Plate CCXXX. fig. 17.) 



Homnptera duplicata, Bethmic, Can. Journal, x. p. 257 (185G) ; Smith, 



CaL Noet. N. Am. p. 371. 

 Thmcyma helata, S-.nith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxxt. p. 252 (1909). 



Head and thorax rufous mixed with some pui-plish gi-ey and dark 

 brown ; pectus whitish tinged with brown ; legs dark brown mixed 

 with grey, the tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen rufous, 

 the crests dark at tips. Fore wing gi'ey suffused with red-brown 

 and iiTorated with black, the terminal area striated with black ; 

 subbasal line black, obliquely cm-ved, from costa to subjuedian fold ; 

 antemedial line black deiined on inner side by briijht rufous, angled 

 outwards below costa, incurved in cell, and oblique below vein 1 ; 

 an indistinct double sinuous medial line ; a minute black ]wint in 

 middle of cell ; reniform a narrow deej) black lunule with some 

 whitish suffusion beyond it ; postmedial line black, oblique to below 

 vein 7, incm-ved at discal fold, strongly exciuved at vein -1, then 

 incurved and slightly sinuous, some whitish points beyond it on 

 costa ; subterniinal line black, slightly angled outwards at vein 7, 

 tljcn incurved, angled otitwards at vein 4 and slightly at vein 3, 

 then incurved ; a terminal series of .slight Avhitish spots. Hind 

 wing greyish suffused with red-brown and irrorated with blackisli, 

 the terminal area striated with blackish ; faint traces of two lines 

 beyond the cell ; postmedial line double, the inner line hardly 

 traceable, the outer black defined on outer side by white, obsolescent 

 towards costa and bent outwards to tornus, a teniiinal series of 

 faint Avhitish spots ; the underside whitish tinged and thickly 

 irrorated with red-brown, traces of Avaved postmedial and 

 subterniinal line.*?. 



Kah. U.S.A., 1 5 , Maine, New Hampshire, Webster, Mas- 

 sachusetts, Amherst, New York, Center (BaiJri/, Grofe), 1 d, 

 2 2 J Brooklyn, Pennsylvania. Exp. 38— IG miilim. 



*8043. Zale tethunei. (Plate CCXXX. fig. 18.) 



rhaocrjma bethtmei, Saiitli, Tr, U.S. Nat. Mas. xxxr. p. 260 (1909). 



Head and thorax dull brown with a reddish tinge ; tcgulae with 

 ])lack line at base, fuscous line at middle and blackish line at tij)s, 

 sometimes defined ]>y white scales or almost obsolete ; thorax with 

 two more or less distinct grey lines ; abdomen dull brown, tlie 

 terminal segments sometimes ochreous, the crests distinct. Fore 

 wing dull reddish brown, rather roughly scaled, the basal area rather 

 darker ; subbasal line very indistinct, from costa to vein 1 ; ante- 

 medial line blackish, slightlv angled outwards below co.sta and 



