LEPIPOLYS. — ONCOClSrEMIS. 145 



Bluff (Doubleday), 7 J type, Texas, Colorado, California. Exp. 32- 

 40 millim. 



Larva. Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. v. p. 292 (1903). 



Head sordid whitish with many small black spots. A dorsal 

 band of broad elliptical white spots, two on each segment ; a 

 broad white stigmatal band centred by the spiracles. Body shaded 

 with olivaceous blackish, tubercles large, blackish brown, the sub- 

 ventral ones white ringed ; cervical shield and anal plate white 

 with black dots ; spiracles black ; feet pale. Food-plant, Linaria 

 canadensis. — H. G. D. 



Genus ONCOCITEMIS. 



Type. 



Oncocnemia, Led. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1853, p. 368... striohgera. 



Copihadena, Morr. Can. Eiit. vii. p. 91 (1875) atricollaris. 



Metahadena, Morr. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, p. 431... atrifasciata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upiturned, the 2nd joint fringed 

 with long hair in front, the 3rd porrect ; irons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; 

 antennte of male ciliated ; head and thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- 

 and metathorax with spreading crests ; fore tibia short with curved claw a.t 

 extremity on inner side and sometimes a minute claw on outer side ; abdomen 

 with some rough hair at base but without crests. Fore wing with veins 3 and 

 .5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 I'rom 10 anastomosing with 

 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of 

 cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Hind wing yellow. 



a. Fore wing with the orbicular elongate elliptical and con- 



nected with the reniform by a black streak mirificalis. 



b. Fore v»'iug with the orbicular rounded, not connected 



with the reniform by a black streak. 

 a'-. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines double 



filled in with white dayi. 



b^. Pore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines single. 

 a^. Fore wing with the antemedial line distinct, dentate. 



«'. Fore wing with the ground-colour rufous hayesi. 



b^. Fore wing grey tinged with ochreous regina. 



b"^. Fore wing with the antemedial line hardly 

 traceable. 

 «'. Fore wing with the basal half brown suffused 



with grey eida. 



b^. Fore wing blackish with a silky gloss to post- 

 medial line corusca. 



B. Hind wing not yellow. 



a. Hind wing with the basal area dark, a whitish medial 

 band and black terminal band. 

 a)-. Hind wing with the medial whitish band not reaching 



inner margin exe.inplaris. 



b^. Hind wing with the medial whitish band reaching 

 inner margin. 

 cA Fore wing with the reniform filled in with white ... alhifasciata. 

 b^. Fore wing with the reniform yellow defined by 



black and with fuscous centre melantho. 



C'. Fore wing with slight pale annulus to reniform. 



a?. Hind wing with the medial whitish band broad... pudorata. 

 b^. Hind Vr'ing with the medial whitish band narrow, tenuifascia. 

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