166 NOCXUIDJC. 



oblique, the lines widely separated ; orbicular and reniform small, 

 the former defined by black, round, the latter defined by black on 

 inner side, slightly defined on outer ; a strong oblique black bar 

 from costa to reniform, and obliquely incurved dentate line from 

 loAver angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line double filled 

 iu Avith bluish white, the inner line indistinct except at costa, bent 

 outwards below costa, then dentate, incurved below vein 3 and 

 with blackish mark on its inner edge at submedian fold, some 

 black striae beyond it from costa ; sub terminal line formed by indis- 

 tinct whitish marks in the interspaces with blackish points on their 

 outer edges, somewhat angled inwards at discal and submedian 

 folds ; a terminal series of black points with blackish streaks from 

 them intersecting the cilia, which are whitish. Hind wing whitish 

 suffused with brown, the veins brown ; a slight discoidal spot and 

 traces of diffusod postmedial and subterminal lines ; a slight dark 

 terminal line ; the underside whitish tinged and irrorated with 

 brown, especially on costal and terminal areas, a blackish discoidal 

 iiinule with slight dark bar above it from costa. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, Mendocino Co., 2 c? , 1 $ type. E.vp. 

 S 44, 5 50 millim. 



3763. Merolonche ursina. (Plate CXXVII. fig. 12.) 



Merolovehe ursma, Smith & Dyar, Pi\ U.S. Nat. Mus. xxi. p. 180, pi. x. 

 if. b, 6 (1899) ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 105. 



5 . Head and thorax white mixed with dark brown and black ; 

 pntagia with black streaks on outer edges and basal half of inner 

 edges ; tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen grey irrorated 

 with black and suffused with black-brown. Pure wing grey-white 

 tliickly irrorated with black and suffused with black-brown, espe- 

 fialiy on medial area and beyond the postmedial line ; subbasal 

 line represented by two black points on costa ; aniemedial line very 

 indistinct, double, waved, curved ; orbicular defined by blackish, 

 rather elongate elliptical and with slight black streak from it to 

 the reniform, which is suffused with fuscous and indistinctly de- 

 fined by blackish points ; an indistinct diffused dark bar from costa 

 to reniform ; postmedial line black defined on either side bj^ grey, 

 bent outwards below costa, then dentate, slightlj- angled inwards 

 at discal fold and strongl}- incurved below vein 4, some whitish 

 points beyond it on costa; subterminal line formed by lunulate 

 whitish marks in the interspaces, defined on outer side^ by slight 

 dark points, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, and somewhat 

 angled inwards at discal and submedian folds ; a terminal series of 

 small black spots ; cilia chequered black and Avhite. Hind wing 

 whitish suff'used with brown except at termen ; a faint discoidal 

 spot and indistinct diffused subterminal line ; a terminal series of 

 blackish points ; cilia chequered blackish and white ; the underside 

 white tinged with brown and irrorated with dark brown, a blackish 

 discoidal lunule. 



