238 NOCTUIDJ^.. 



Hind wing grey suffused with brown and irrorated with black, the 

 costal half of basal area and inner margin paler ; three indistinct 

 difEu.sed dark lines beyond the cell ; postmedial line black, arising at 

 vein 6 ; subterminal line slight, dark, somewhat sinuous, a diffused 

 whitish band beyond it with some rufous at middle ; a crenulate 

 dark terminal line ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a 

 dark discoidal lunule, and diffused postmedial line. 



Hah. LTritguay, Monte Video {J. J. Walker), 1 $ type. Ex}?. 

 40 millim. 



8039. Zale benesignata. (Plate CCXXX. fig. 14.) 



Homopiera henedgnafa, Harv. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. iii. p. 14 (1875) ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 371. 



S . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with dark brown and 

 some white, the patagia with obscure white and dark bars ; palpi 

 with the 3rd joint blackish tipped with white ; pectus whitish 

 tinged with red-brown ; legs whitish irrorated with brown, the tarsi 

 black ringed with white ; abdomen red-brown, the crests darker, 

 the ventral surface rufous at base and extremity, the medial 

 segments whitish irrorated with brown. Fore wing grey-white 

 mostly suffused with bright rufous and with slight dark irroration, 

 the terminal area striated with brown, the basal area, the areas 

 between the medial lines and between the postmedial and subterminal 

 lines often darker ; a slight curved dark subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line slight, dark, bent inwards in cell 

 and below vein 1, the area beyond it grey- white to the dark medial 

 line which is incurved in submedian interspace ; a blackish point in 

 middle of cell ; reniform a narrow blackish lunule defined on outer 

 side by whitish ; postmedial line brown, oblique to below vein 7, 

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

 slightly sinuous ; subterminal line brown slightly defined on outer 

 side by white, somewhat angled outwards at vein 7, then incurved, 

 angled outwards at vein 4 and slightly at vein 3, then again in- 

 curved ; "a slight creniilate brown terminal line. Hind wing greyish 

 suffused with red-brown, some dark irroration along vein 1, the 

 terminal area with slight dark striae ; traces of two sinuous lines 

 beyond the cell ; postmedial line faint, brown, sinuous, excurved 

 and slightly defined on inner side by whitish on inner area ; sub- 

 terminal line blackish slightly defined on outer side by whitish, 

 incurved below discal fold and excurved to tornus ; a slight crenulate 

 brown terminal line ; the underside white tinged and irrorated with 

 brown, a small blackish discoidal lunule, ti-aces of three sinuous lines 

 on medial area, a rather diffused subterminal line ending on termen 

 at vein 1, and a fine crenulate blackish terminal line. 



Hah. Canada, 1 S type, Montreal {Couper), 1 S , Bath, 1 $ ; 

 U.S.A., New Hampshire, Plorida, Indian R. Eccp. 44 millim. 



