234; NOCTUIDiE. 



8034. Zale minerea. (Plate CCXXX. fig. 8 d , 9 $ .) 



Homoptera minerea, Guen. Noct, iii. p. 15, pi. 18. f. 6 (1852); Smith, Cat. 



Noct. N. Am. p. 369. 

 Homo'ptera involuta, Wlk. xiii. 1055 (1857). 

 Homa'ptera albofascicda, Bathune, Canadian Journ. x. p. 256 (1865) ; 



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

 Vlmocyma 7iorda, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxxv. p. 236 (1909). 



c5' . Head and thorax bright red-brown mixed with some ochreous 

 white ; tegulai with black line near base ; palpi irrorated Avith 

 black ; frons with black lateral bars ; tibiae irrorated with black, 

 the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen rufous irrorated with 

 a few black scales and with slight black segmental lines, the 1st 

 segment darker, the ventral surface grey ii-ro rated with brown. 

 Fore wing bright rufous variegated with some yellowish, the basal 

 area red-brown irrorated with blackish, the terminal area grey- 

 white tinged with rufous ; subbasal line double, blackish defined by 

 some grey scales, obliquely curved from costa to submedian fold, 

 the lines well separated ; antemedial line double, blackish defined 

 on each side by some grey, sinuous, inwardly oblique below the cell, 

 the lines well separated ; a double oblique irregularly sinuous red- 

 bi'own medial line ; a patch of red-brown suffusion from middle of 

 costa enclosing the reniform which is indistinctly defined ; post- 

 medial line double, minutely waved and blackish to vein 5, then 

 rufous, excurved at vein 4, then oblique and sinuous, a red-brown 

 patch beyond it on costal area with some white points on costa ; 

 subterminal line double defined on outer side by white, the inner 

 line black towards costa and below vein 4, sinuous, oblique below 

 costa, excurved at middle, then incurved, an oblique brown bar 

 beyond it from apex and a patch at middle ; a series of brown 

 points before termen ; cilia red-brown mixed with dark brown. 

 Hind wing bright rufous, the basal area tinged with grey and 

 irrorated with some black scales, the terminal area striated with 

 blackish ; three double sinuous brpwn lines beyond the cell ; post- 

 medial line double, the inner line black, minutely waved and slightly 

 bent inwards between veins 5 and 2, defined on outer side by white 

 and followed by a diffused greenish grey band from vein 5 to 

 torntis ; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Underside whitish tinged 

 Avith rufous and irrorated with brown ; fore Aving with discoidal 

 lunule defined by black, curved minutely waved postmedial line, 

 and slight svibterminal line ; hind wing Avith black discoidal lunule, 

 two sinuous lines beyond the cell, a sinuous minutely waved post- 

 medial line, and slight subterminal line. 



Ab. 1. alhofasciata. Wings with the terminal area concolorous, 

 the subterminal line defined on outer side by white. 



Ab. 2. Similar but with the subterminal line not defined on 

 outer side by white. 



5 . Fore wing more uniform brown without the red-brown and 

 oehreous shades. 



Ab. 3. Fore wing oehreous whitish prominently striated Avith 

 brown, the basal area obliquely from above end of cell and the 



