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2256. Oncocnemis euta. (Plate XCIX. fig. 16.) 

 Oncocnemis euta, Smith, J. N.Y. Eiit. Soc. xi. p. 11 (1903). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with pale and dark brown ; neck 

 with fulvous ring ; tegulae with blackish line near base and blackish 

 tips ; abdomen yellow-brown irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing 

 brown suffused with grey and with slight dark irroration ; a slight 

 black streak below base of cell ; subbasal line represented by 

 an oblique striga from costa; antemedial line very indistinct, 

 waved, interrupted, oblique from costa to submedian fold ; clavi- 

 form small, whitish, very indistinctly defined ; orbicular and 

 reniform small with brown centres and whitish annuli defined 

 by black, the former rather elongate elliptical ; a slight diffused 

 medial shade ; postmedial line very indistinct and slightly waved, 

 bent outwards below costa to an angle at vein 6, incurved below 

 vein 4 and touching lower edge of reniform ; the terminal area 

 broadly suffused with fuscous, the subterminal line represented by 

 slight grey lunules on small dentate black marks, angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; cilia chequered grey and 

 blackish. Hind wing yellow with broad terminal black band ; 

 cilia brown at base, whitish at tips ; the underside with the costal 

 area irrorated with brown. 



Hah. U.S.A., Utah, 1 J , 1 2 . Exp. 24-32 millim. 



*2257. Oncocnemis corusca. (Plate CIY. fig. 2.) 



Oncocnemis corusca, Smith, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. vii. p. 40 (1899) ; Dyar, Cat, 

 Lep. N. Am. p. 126. 



S . Head and thorax blackish mixed with white scales, frons 

 darker ; tegulae and patagia edged with white ; abdomen yellowish. 

 Fore wing blackish irrorated with white, very dark to postmedial 

 line and with a silky gloss ; the base irrorated with grey ; the 

 subbasal line defined by grey; antemedial line hardly traceable, 

 represented by some grey scales ; orbicular small, round, with 

 whitish annulus ; reniform moderate, whitish with dark discoidal 

 line, its outer edge and the area beyond it to postmedial line 

 suffused with whitish ; postmedial line white, indistinct to vein 4, 

 then more prominent ; subterminal line white, obsolescent except 

 towards tornus ; a terminal series of obscure dark lunules. Hind 

 wing orange-yellow with well-defined, moderately broad, black 

 terminal band ; cilia white ; the underside yellow with blackish 

 shading on costal area and blackish terminal band. 



Bah. U.S.A., California, Los Angeles, Yosemite Valley. Exp. 

 27 millim. This species is unknown to me ; figured from a 

 drawing from type in U.S. Nat. Mus. 



*2258. Oncocnemis exemplaris. (Plate XCIX. fig. 17.) 



Oncocnemis exemplaris, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 64, pi. 6. f. 8 

 (1894) ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 127. 



S . Head and thorax grey-white mixed with black ; tegulse 

 with black medial line ; patagia with blackish line near margins ; 



