ZALE. 241 



incurved at vein 1 ; medial shade dark brown or blackish, erect, 

 sometimes formed by two lines and with some grey irroration before 

 it ; reniform a dark lunule with a paler patch beyond it ; postmedial 

 line brown or blackish, excurved below costa, incmwed at discal fold, 

 excm-ved at vein 4, then incm-ved ; subterminal line dark, obsolescent 

 on costal half, angled outwards at middle ; a slight waved dark 

 terminal line. Hind wing rather paler reddish brown ; an indis- 

 tinct double medial line ; postmedial and subterminal lines closely 

 appi'oximated with deeper red-brown between them ; a fine waved 

 brown terminal line with slight pale lunules before it. Underside 

 pale yellowish brown ; both wings Math indistinct discoidal spots, 

 ante-, postmedial, and subterminal lines. 



Sab. U.S.A., Maine, Distr. of Columbia, Washington, N. 

 Carolina, Tryon. Ea:p. 31-38 millim. This species is unknown to 

 me, figured from a drawing from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 



Larva. Food-plant, Pimis. 



8044. Zale squanmlaris. (Plate CCXXX. fig. 19.) 



Noctua squamularis, Driiry, 111. Exot. Ins. i. p. 18, pi. ix. f. 3 (1770); 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 373. 



S • Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous mixed with bluish grej^ ; 

 frons with lateral black bars ; fore and mid tibiae banded with 

 blackish, the tarsi black ringed with white. Fore wing fuscous 

 suffused with grey and irrorated with bluish white, some rufous in 

 basal half of submedian interspace and in and beyond end of cell ; 

 subbasal line black, curved, from costa to vein 1, a slight oblique 

 blackish shade beyond it ; antemedial line black, slightly angled 

 outwards below costa and excurved at median neiwui'e, then oblique 

 and slightly sinuous ; medial line rather indistinct, double, dark, 

 slightly angled outwards at subcostal nervure and incurved below 

 the cell, the outer line interrupted by the discoidal lunule formed by 

 rough black and rufous scales, a pale rufous patch beyond it ; post- 

 medial line black, obliquely curved to vein 6, incurved at discal 

 fold, angled outwards at vein 4, then strongly incurved and slightly 

 excurved towards inner margin, some whitish points beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line black slightly defined on oiiter side by white 

 scales, somewhat excurved at vein 7, excurved at middle, then 

 incurved ; a dark shade beyond it at middle and some white in sub- 

 median interspace. Hind wing grey-brown slightly irrorated with 

 blackish ; an indistinct double oblique medial line from discal fold 

 to inner margin ; postinedial line indistinct, arising at vein 6, then 

 obliquely incurved and excurved above inner margin, closely followed 

 by the subterminal line, which is similar, but black defined on outer 

 side by white and ending at tornus ; the underside whitish tinged 

 ■with brown and irrorated with blackish, a blackish discoidal lunule 

 and indistinct sinuous postmedial and subterminal lines. 



Sab. Canada, Manitoba, Winnipeg (Wallis), 1 S ; U.S.A., 

 Distr. of Columbia, Washington, Pennsylvania, Maryland. LJjej). 

 40 millim. 



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