244 NOCTUID^. 



5 . Grey-brown with a slight reddish tinge, and witliout the 

 rufous and whitish shades. 



Hal. U.S.A., Arizona, cotypes f c? $ in Coll. W. Barnes, 

 Phoenix, Nogales. Exj). 40 millim. 



8048. Zale ruhi. (Plate CCXXX. fig. 21.) 



Homoptera ruin, H. Eclw. Papilio, i. p. 28 (1881) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. ^m. p. 369. 



$ . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with greyish ; tegulse 

 with black line near base ; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen 

 red-brown tinged with grey, the crests Avhitish at base, fuscous at 

 tips. Fore wing red-brown tinged with grey ; a slight obliquely 

 curved blackish subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line slight, blackish, oblique, somewhat inciTrved in cell and 

 excurved just below it ; the medial area with faint traces of sinuous 

 lines and slight blackish stride from costa ; reniform hardly trace- 

 able ; postmedial line black, oblique to below vein 7, then incurved, 

 exctirved at vein 4, then oblique and slightly sinuous ; subteraainal 

 line strong, black, oblique to discal fold, slightly angled outwards 

 below vein 5 and strongly below vein 4, then incurved ; a series of 

 minute blackish points before termen ; a fine waved dark terminal 

 line and white line at base of cilia. Hind wing red-brown tinged 

 with grey, the basal half irrorated with dark brown ; three indis- 

 tinct sinuous brown lines beyond the cell ; postmedial line black, 

 sinuous ; subterminal line rather stronger, black, oblique, sinuous, 

 closely approximated to the postmedial line below vein 6 and angled 

 outwards to tornus>; a series of blackish points before termen ; a 

 fine waved dark terminal line, and white line at base of cilia ; the 

 underside grey suffused with reddish brown and slightly in-orated 

 Avith dark brown, a small dark discoidal spot, slight minutely waved 

 postmedial line, and faint subterminal line. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, Shasta Co., Cowsprings {Wahingliam), 

 2 $ , Siskiyoti Co., Soda Sj)rings, Yosemite Valley. Exp. 44 

 millim. 



8049. Zale yavapai. (Plate CCXXXI. fig. 3.) 



PhoEocyma yavapai. Smith, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxxv. p. 267 (1909). 



5 . Head and thorax brown mixed with grey and fuscous ; tegulse 

 with black line near base ; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen 

 grey suffused with brown, the crests blackish. Fore wing grey 

 suffused with fuscous brown and irrorated with blackish ; subbasal 

 line black, sinuous, from costa to vein 1, a small black spot beyond 

 it on median nervure and another above inner margin ; antemedial 

 line double, blackish, filled in with red-brown below the cell, in- 

 wardly oblique, waved, a faint sintious line beyond it and a curved 

 medial shade ; reniform a narrow lunule defined by blackish ; post- 

 medial line black slightly defined on outer side by whitish, exciu'ved 

 below costa, incurved at discal fold, excurved at vein 4, then oblique 



