230 NOCTUIDiE. 



fuscous brown suffused with blue-grey and tinged in parts with 

 red-brown ; subbasal double white striae from costa ; antemedial 

 line double, black, inwardly oblique, sinuous, a band of greenish 

 white irroration beyond it ; two very indistinct oblique waved 

 medial lines with some greenish white scales on them ; a m^inute 

 black spot in middle of cell ; reniform an oblique bar defined on 

 inner side by black and by greenish white points above and below 

 and on outer side by diffused greenish white ; postmedial line 

 black, oblique, minutely waved and defined on each side by white 

 to below vein 7, bent inwards below vein 6, excurved at vein 4, 

 then indistinctly double, oblique and slightly sinuous, some minute 

 white spots beyond it on costa ; subterminal line black, incurved 

 and obsolescent below vein 7, excurved at vein 4, then double, the 

 inner line strong, the outer slight, oblique and sinuous ; the 

 terminal area striated with black and with a series of diffused 

 greenish white spots ; a series of black and white points before 

 termen. Hind wing fuscous brown suffused with blue-grey, the 

 base, costal area, and inner margin with a red-brown tinge ; some 

 black and white irroration on basal part of vein 1 ; three indistinct 

 slightly sinuous dark lines beyond the cell ; postmedial line black, 

 arising at vein 7, slightly incurved and sinuous ; terminal area 

 striated with black and with a series of diffused greenish white 

 spots ; a series of black and white points before termen and a fine 

 pale line at base of cilia ; the underside greyish suffused with red- 

 brown and irrorated with brown, a small blackish discoidal spot, 

 two indistinct sinuous medial lines, a postmedial line, and traces of 

 a subterminal line. 



Ab. 1. Blacker; fore wing with hardly any reddish tones and 

 much less greenish irroration. 



Hah. Canada ; U.S.A., Eastern States to Florida and west to 

 the Mississippi and Rocky Mts., New York, Center {Bailey^, 1 6 , 

 1 $ , Florida {Double day), 1 S type jplenipennis, Enterprise, 

 1 6,1 $ . JExj). 42-48 millim. 



8029. Zale undularis. (Plate CCXXX. fig. 2.) 



Nociua undularis, Driiry, 111. Exot. Ins. i. p. 19, pi. ix. f. 4 (1770) ; Smith, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 372. 

 Homoptera nigricans, Betliune, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phii. iv. p. 214 (1864) ; 



Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 369. 

 Ypsia umbripennis, Grote, Can. Ent. viii. p. 109 (1876). 



Head and thorax black-brown irrorated with silvery blue scales ; 

 pectus and legs dark brown, the tarsi black ringed with white ; 

 abdomen dark brown, the crests blackish. Fore wing black-brown 

 suffused with silvery blue, the terminal area striated with black ; 

 subbasal line double, black, sinuous, from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line double, black, sinuous, inwardly oblique ; medial 

 area with three oblique sinuous dark lines ; reniform defined by 

 black, constricted at middle and produced at upper extremity ; 



