ZALE. 229 



8027. Zale edusina. (Plate CCXXIX. fig. 20 J , 21 $ .) 



Homoptera echisina, Harv. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. iii. p. 14 (1875) rj • 



Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 370. 

 Homojytera atrithicta, Harv. Bull. Buif. Soc. Nat. Sci. iii. p. 14 (1875), $. 



(5 . Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with some bhiish 

 white ; pectus and legs brown mixed with grey, the tarsi black 

 ringed with white ; abdomen brown, the crests blackish, the 

 ventral surface irrorated with grey. Fore Mdng fuscous brown 

 mixed with blue-grey and slightly irrorated with black, the inner 

 half of medial area tinged with red-brown ; subbasal line black, 

 oblique, from costa to siibmedian fold ; antemedial line double, 

 black, waved, inwardly oblique below the cell, a band of pale bhie- 

 grey suffusion beyond it; the medial area with three indistinct 

 oblique waved brown lines ; reniform a narrow lunule defined by 

 blackish and with small white spots on its outer edge ; postmedial 

 line black, defined on each side by white at costa, oblique to below 

 vein 7, then minutely waved, excurved at vein 4, then oblique and 

 sinuous, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 black, strong, oblique to vein 5, excurved at vein 4, then incurved 

 and sinuous ; the terminal area with bluish white patches from 

 below apex to vein 5 and from below vein 4 to above tornus ; a 

 fine crenulate dark terminal line with small white spots beyond it 

 in the interspaces. Hind wing fuscous brovvm mixed with grey and 

 faintly tinged with reddish ; three indistinct minutely waved grey 

 lines beyond the cell ; postmedial line double, black, the inner line 

 minutely waved, the outer slightly sinuous, a band of bluish white 

 suffusion beyond it from discal fold to tornus ; the terminal area 

 striated with black ; a slight crenulate dark terminal line with 

 small whitish spots beyond it in the interspaces ; the underside 

 brownish white thickly irrorated with brown, a black discoidal 

 striga, dark postmedial line waved on costal area, and faint sub- 

 fcermi aal line. 



5 . Wings without the white on terminal areas. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing without the minute white spots on outer edge 

 of reniform. 



Hah. U.S.A., ? New York, ? Kentucky, Texas, 4 c? , 4 $ type 

 and type atritincta. ^xp. 34-40 millim. 



8028. Zale SBruginosa. (Plate CCXXX. fig. 1.) 



Ypsia cBTuginosa, Gruen. Noct. iii. p. 17, pi. 18. f. 7 (1852); Smith, Cat. 



Noct. N. Am. p. 373. 

 Homoptera plenipennis, Wlk. xiii. 1055 (1857). 



Head and thorax black-brown irrorated with a few white scales ; 

 palpi with the 3rd joint white at tijDS ; basal joint of antennsB 

 white on outer side ; pectus red-brown, the fore tibiae and tarsi 

 blackish ringed with white ; abdomen fuscous mixed with some 

 grey and black, the ventral surface pale grey-brown. Fore wing 



