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8831. Oxycnemis advena. 



Oxycnemis advena, Grote, Can. Ent. xiv. p. 182 (18S2); Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 267. 



Head and thorax fuscous brown irrorated with grey-white, the 

 metathoracio crest black with metallic silvery scales ; tarsi blackish 

 ringed with white ; abdomen greyish suffused with brown. Fore 

 wing purplish grey irrorated and in parts suffused with black- 

 brown ; subbasal line strong, black, curved, from costa to vein 1 ; 

 aiitemedial line strong, black, oblique, sinuous ; claviform defined 

 by black and with slight pale annulus, elongate and pointed at 

 extremities; orbicular and reniform whitish irrorated with brown 

 and defined by black, tlie former round ; postmedial line strong, 

 black, slightly defined by whitish on outer side, strongly bent 



Fig. 45. — Oxycnemis advena, (^ . \. 



outwards and almost obsolete below costa, then oblique, slightly 

 angled outwards at veins 4, 3, then incurved and bent outwards 

 below submedian fold ; an oblique black shade from costa near 

 apex to just beyond postmedial line at vein 6 ; faint traces of 

 a minutely waved subterminal line ; a fine black terminal line. 

 Hind wing whitish sufiused with brown especially on terminal 

 area ; a fine dark terminal line ; cilia white slightly mixed with 

 brown ; the underside white irrorated with brown, especially on 

 costal and terminal areas, a brownish discoidal spot and rather 

 difi'used curved postmedial line from costa to submedian fold. 



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3832. Oxycnemis subsimplex. (Plate CXXVIII. fig. 7.) 



Oxycnemis stibsimplex, Dyar, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. xii. p. 42 (1904). 



J, Head and thorax fuscous mixed with grey ; tegulse ochreous 

 except at tips ; pectus whitish ; abdomen ochreous, ventrally 

 white irrorated with brown, Fore wing fuscous mixed with 

 grey-white, the veins with slight dark streaks ; subbasal line 

 black defined by grey on outer side, curved, from costa to base at 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line black defined by grey on inner 

 side, erect, slightly waved ; claviform defined by black, large and 

 extending to cell ; orbicular and reniform with whitish annuli 

 defined by black, the former round, the latter with whitish lunule 



