220 NOCTUID^. 



line double, brown filled in with whitish scales on costal half, 

 inwardly oblique and slightly waved ; an indistinct obliqiie sinuous 

 medial line with a pale diffused band before it ; reniform very 

 indistinct, defined on inner side by a white point at median nervure 

 and on outer side by some whitish scales ; postmedial line double, 

 brown filled in with grey and at costa by white, minutely waved, 

 incurved at discal fold, excurved above and below vein 4, then 

 oblique ; stibterminal line diffused dark brown "with patches of 

 grey-green scales on it, excurved at middle and incurved above and 

 below middle ; a series of brown points before termen. Hind wing 

 red-brown mixed with grey and irrorated with a few blackish 

 scales, the basal area paler, the terminal area rather greyer and 

 striated with brown ; traces of three sinuous lines on medial area ; 

 postmedial line blackish slightly defined on outer side by grey, 

 oblique and very slightly waved ; subterminal line blackish, waved, 

 somewhat incurved and with diffused greenish white scales beyond 

 it from discal fold to tornus ; the underside whitish, the costal area 

 striated and the terminal area suffused with red-brown, a slight 

 discoidal lunule, two indistinct waved medial lines, a waved 

 postmedial line, and series of dark points before termen. 

 Hah. Mexico, type f $ in Mus. Oxon. Exp. 50 millim. 



8016. Zale fuliginosa. (Plate CCXXIX. fig. 10.) 



Homopterafuliginosa, Wlk. xiii. 1059 (1857). 



2 . Head and thorax brown mixed with grey and some black 

 scales ; tegulse with black line near base ; frons with lateral black 

 bars ; tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen brown mixed with 

 grey and suffused with fuscous, the ventral surface grey irrorated 

 with brown. Fore wing grey-brown suffused with leaden fuscous 

 except on costal area, striated and irrorated with black, a brownish 

 ochreous band beyond the postmedial line from vein 4 to inner 

 margin ; an indistinct double sinuous subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinctly double, inwardly 

 oblique, sinuous ; reniform only defined by a small white spot 

 beyond its upper extremity and white points at its lower ex- 

 tremities ; postmedial line black, arising below costa, angled 

 inwards at discal fold, excurved above and below vein 4, then 

 oblique, sinuous ; subterminal line indistinct, blackish, sinuous, 

 incurved at discal fold, angled outwards at vein 4, then obliquely 

 incurved ; a series of slight blackish points with white points on 

 their outer sides before termen ; cilia with fine pale lines at base 

 and middle. Hind wing grey-brown suffused with leaden fuscous 

 except on costal area, irrorated and striated with black ; traces of 

 five double sinuous dark lines on antemedial and medial areas ; 

 postmedial line double, black, the inner line sinuous, the outer 

 produced to slight streaks above and below vein 6, incurved 

 between discal and submedian folds, and waved towards inner 

 margin ; a series of white points before termen ; cilia with a fine 



