MEEOI.ONCHE. jb/ 



TTah. Canada., Br. Columbia, Fraser R. {St. Joltn), 1 5; U.S.A. 

 Colorado, Duraiigo, 1 $ , California, Sierra Nevada. /ia^:>. .38- 

 42 milUm. 



3764. Merolonche spinea. 



Ajycdcla simiea, Grote. Buffi. Bull. Soe. Nafc. Sei. iii. p. 78 (1876); Smith 

 &L Dyar, Pr. U.S. JSTaL Mus. xxi. p. 179, pi. x. ff. 2, 3 ; Siaitli, Cat. 

 Koct. j^f. Am. p. 3.5. 



Head and thorax whitish tinged with purplish grey and ochreous 

 and mixed with red-brown and some black ; sides of palpi and 

 frons red-brown : tegulse with slight black dorsal streak ; patagia 

 edged with black ; prothorax with some rufous ; tarsi fuscous 

 ringed with white ; abdomen greyish suffused with brown and at 

 base with rufous. Fore wing whitish tinged with violaceous grey 

 and slightly irrorated with brown, some dark suffusion beyond the 

 medial and postmedial lines ; subbasal line represented by slight 



Fig. 21. — Merolonche spinea, c? . \- 



brown bars from costa and cell; antemedial line indistinct, diffused, 

 interrupted, oblique and waved from costa to middle of cell ; orbi- 

 cular hardly traceable, round, with slight black streak above ; 

 reniform an indistinct whitish lunnle defined on inner side by 

 difFased brown and with some dark points on outer side; a black- 

 brown bar from middle of costa and one above reniform ; a diffused 

 incurved brownish medial line from cell to inner margin crossed 

 by a short strong blackish fascia in submedial fold ; postmedial 

 line brown defined by white on inner side, double at costa, strongly 

 bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, slightly incurved 

 at discal fold and strongly below vein 4, some whitish points 

 beyond it on costa with dark striae between them ; a diffused 

 wliitish subterminal line with slight dentate black marks on its 

 outer edge below costa and on vein 2, angled inwards at discal 

 and submcdian folds and diffused to tornus ; cilia chequered black- 

 brown and white. Hind wing whitish suffused with black-brown, 

 leaving a white patch on termen in submedian interspace ; cilia 

 white ; the underside white irrorated with brown, a blackish dis- 

 coidal lunule, two diffused dark bars from medial part of costa, and 

 a diffused oblique line from lower angle of cell to inner margin. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, 1^,2$ type. Exp. 6 44, ? 48 

 millim. 



