2-12 KOCTUID^. 



*8045. Zale larger a. 



'Pliceocyma largera, Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Miis. xxxv. p. 257 flGOO). 



Head and thorax brown ; tegulse with darker lines at middle and 

 tips and edged with grey ; thorax with alternating grey and brown 

 lines ; abdomen brown. Fore wing red-brown suffused with blue- 

 grey ; subbasal line brown, diffused on inner side, from costa to 

 vein 1 ; antemedial line single, brown, irregular diffused, inwardly 

 oblique ; medial shade distinct, defined on inner side by a slightly 

 sinuous blackish line, diffused on outer ; orbicular a black point, 

 renifonn a very distinct narrow blackish lunule, sometimes defined 

 on inner side by pale scales and followed by reddish shading ; post- 

 medial line single, brown, excurved below costa, incurved at discal 

 fold, excurved at vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line brown, 

 diffused, defined on inner side by black scales, angled outwards at 

 veins 4, 3 ; a fine brown terminal line. Hind wing fuscous brown, 

 paler at base ; traces of a double oblique medial line arising at discal 

 fold ; postmedial and subterminal lines closely approximated and 

 brown or blackish ; a greyish mark at tornus and irregular terminal 

 line defining greyish lunules. Underside ochreous brown ; both 

 wings with dark discoidal lunules and postmedial and subterminal 

 lines. 



Hah. Canada, Manitoba, Winnipeg, Vancouver I. Exp. 45 

 millim. This species is unknown to me ; probably a variety of 

 Z. oblic[na. 



8046. Zale obliqua. (Plate CCXXX. fig. 20.) 



Homoptera obliqua, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 16, pi. 15. f . 7 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 371. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen purple-grey mixed wdth reddish 

 brown ; tarsi black ringed with white. Fore wing purple-grey 

 tinged in parts with red- brown and irrorated with black, the terminal 

 area striated with blackish ; a slight oblique black subbasal line 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line slight, blackish, 

 aciitely angled outwards below costa and oblique towards inner 

 margin ; a double rather diffused sinuous medial red-brown line, 

 somewhat angled outwards at the veins ; a minute red-brown spot 

 in middle of cell ; reniform a narrow red-brown lunule on the outer 

 medial line with a patch of rufous suffusion beyond it ; postmedial 

 line brown, excurved below costa, incurved at discal fold, slightly 

 angled outwards at veins 4, 3, then incurved and sinuoiis ; sub- 

 terminal line red-brown and incurved to vein 4, then black, angled 

 outwards at vein 4 and slightly at vein 3, then incurved. Hind 

 wing purple-grey tinged with red-brown, the inner area slightly 

 irrorated wdth black, the terminal area striated with blackish ; 

 traces of two sinuous lines beyond the cell ; jwstmedial line double, 

 arising at vein 6, slightly sinuous, the outer line black below vein 2 ; 

 the underside purple-grey tinged and irrorated with red-brown, 

 faint traces of two medial lines and of ]50stmedial and subterminal 

 lines. 



