236 NocTuiDji;. 



8036. Zale lunifera. (Plate CCXXX. iig. 11.) 



Phcsoci/ma lunifera, Hiibn. Ziitr. Ex. Sclimett. p. 19, £f. 97, 98 (1818) ; 



Smi'tli, Cat,. Noct. N. Am. p. 368. 

 Homoptera lineosa, Wlk. xiii. 1066 (1857). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with ochreous ; palpi, pectus, 

 and legs ochreous mixed with brown, the tarsi blackish with pale 

 rings ; abdomen greyish tinged with red-brown. Fore wing greyish 

 suffused with rufous and with slight dark irroration, the basal ai'ea 

 deeper rufous ; subbasal line double, blackish, slightly defined on 

 inner side by white, excurved below costa and ending at submedian 

 fold; antemedial line double, blackish, the inner line indistinct, 

 sinuous, inwardly oblique below submedian fold, a band of whitish 

 suffusion beyond it ; two oblique somewhat dentate medial dark 

 lines ; reniform a dark brown lunule ; postmedial line black, angled 

 outwards below vein 7, incurved at discal fold, excui-ved at vein 4, 

 then oblique and sinuous, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line double, brown, incurved on costal half, excurved at 

 vein 4, then again incurved, some whitish suffusion bej^ond it, an 

 oblique dark shade from apex, and some dark suffusion at middle 

 of terminal area ; a slight crenulate brown terminal line. Hind 

 wing greyish suffused with red-brown, the terminal area faintly 

 striated with brown ; three indistinct waved brown lines beyond the 

 cell slightly defined on otiter side by Avhitish ; postmedial line 

 double, black, sinuous, the oiiter line slightly defined on outer side 

 by whitish, somewhat inciu'ved between discal and submedian folds 

 where there is a band of whitish suffusion beyond it ; a slight 

 crenulate brown terminal line ; the underside greyish tinged and 

 irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal point, faint sinuous medial 

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

 terminal line. 



Ab. 1. lineosa. Wings less strongly tinged with red-brown, 

 the medial line more distinct. 



Hah. Canada, Ontario, Orillia (Bush), 1 J ; U.S.A., Eastern 

 States to Texas and west to the Eocky Mts., 7^,4$ type 

 lineosa. JSxp. 42-48 millim. 



Larva. Packard, Bull. Dep. Agric. Ent. xii. p. 22 (1886). 



Wood-brown sometimes tinged with reddish or greenish ; dorsal 

 line dark ; lateral line white defined below by the pale red spira- 

 cular line ; a lateral series of black dots ; ventral surface pale 

 glaiicous green ; 8th somite with a pair of small dorsal tubercles 

 represented on the other segments by oblique dashes, the penulti- 

 mate segment with a transverse ridge ; head reddish with oval or 

 V-shaped white spots at sides. Food-plant, Pinus. Fii/pa with a 

 slight whitish bloom. 



8037. Zale penna. (Plate CCXXX. fig. 12.) 



Homopf.era penna, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xviii. p. 241 (1875) ; Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 371. 



Head and thorax ochreous mixed with red-brown ; palpi irrorated 



