2-42 XOCTUIDJE. 



*8045. Zale lavgera. 



Thaocyma largera, Siuith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mua. xxxv. p. 257 flOOO)- 



Head and thorax brown ; tegul;i> with darker lines at midille and 

 tips and edged with grey ; thorax with alternating grey and brown 

 lines ; abdomen brown. Fore wing red-brown suffused with blue- 

 grey ; subbasal line brown, diffused on inner side, from costa to 

 vein 1 ; anti^medial line single, brown, irregular diffused, inwardly 

 oblique ; medial sliade distinct, defined on inner side by a slightly 

 sinuous blackish line, diff'used on outer ; orbicular a black point, 

 reniform a very distinct naiTOW blackisli lunulc, sometimes defined 

 on inner side hj pale scales and followed by reddish shading ; post- 

 medial line single, brown, excurved below costa, incurved at discal 

 fold, excurved at vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line brown, 

 diffused, defined on inner side by black scales, angled outwards at 

 veins 4, 3 ; a tine brown terminal line. Hind wing fuscous brown, 

 paler at base ; traces of a double oblicjue medial linearising at discal 

 fold ; postmedial and subterminal lines closely approximated and 

 brown or blackish ; a greyish mark at tornus and in-egidar terminal 

 line defining greyish lunules. Underside ochreous brown ; both 

 Avings with dark discoidal lunules and postmedial and subterminal 

 lines. 



Hah. CA>r.VDA, Manitoba, Winnipeg, Vancouver I. Exp. 45 

 millim. This species is unknown to me ; probably a variety' of 

 Z. oh I i qua. 



8046. Zale obliqua. (Plate CCXXX. fig. 20.) 



Homoptera ohliqua, Giien. Noct. iii. p. 16, pi. 15. f. 7 (1852) ; SiiiiLh, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Ain. p. 371. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen purple-grey mixed with reddish 

 brown ; tarsi black ringed with white. Fore wing jjurple-grey 

 tinged in parts with red-brown and iiTorated with black, the terminal 

 area striated with blackish ; a slight oblique black subbasal line 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line slight, blackish, 

 acutely angled outwards below costa and oblicpie towards inner 

 margin; a doul)le rather diffused sinuous medial red-brown line, 

 soniewluit angled outwards at the veins ; a minute red-brown spot 

 in middle of cell ; reniform a narrow red-brown luimle on the outer 

 medial line with a patch ol" rufous suffusion beyond it; postmedial 

 line brown, excm'ved below costa, incurved at discal fold, slightly 

 angled outwards at veins 4, 8, then incurved and simious ; sub- 

 terminal line red-brown and incurved to vein 4, then black, angled 

 outwards at vein 4 and slightly at vein 3, then incurved. Hind 

 wing purple-grey tinged with red-brown, the inner area slightly 

 iri-orated with black, the terminal area striated with blackish ; 

 traces of two sinuous lines beyond the cell ; ])ostmedi:,l line double, 

 arising at vein 0, slightly sinuous, llic outer line black below vein 2 ; 

 the underside ])urpl('-gny lingcd and irroratcd with rcd-ln-own, 

 faint traces of two medial lines and of ])ostmedial and subterminal 

 lines. 



