152 



NOCTIIID.E. 



abdomen blackish, Fore wing grej' -white irrorated with blackish ; 

 subbasal line black defined by white on inner side ; antemedial 

 line black defined by whitish on outer side, oblique waved ; 

 claviform represented by a slight whitish streak ; orbicular 

 small, round, with blackish centre and whitish annulus ; reniform 

 narrow, black and white with white suffusion beyond it extending 

 to just bej'oud postmedial line, which is double at costa, then 

 single, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 somewhat incurved, defined by whitish on outer side ; subterminal 

 line very irregular, whitish, defined on inner side by black sufifusion 

 and slight dentate black marks, angled outwards at veins 7, 6, 4, 3 

 and inwards at diseal and submedian folds ; terminal area rather 

 paler except at apex ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; 

 cilia blackish intersected with white. Hind wing black with a 

 large medial triangular whitish patch from costa to vein 1 ; a 

 blackish discoidal lunule ; cilia white. Underside black with 

 broad white medial band ; fore wing with the termen white 

 expanding into irregular patches. 



I/ab. U.S.A., California, Yosemite Valley. Ea^p. 25 millim. 

 The species is unknown to me ; figured from a drawing from type 

 in Coll. J. B. Smith. 



2259. Oncocnemis alhifasciata, n. n. (Plate XCIX. fig. 18.) 



Oncocnemis fasciatus, Smith, Ins. Life, i. p. 18 (1888), nee H. Edw. 1886; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 169. 



(5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen dull fuscous grey irrorated with 

 a few black scales ; tegulae with slight medial dark line and line 

 near tips. Fore wing with the basal half pale ash-grey irrorated 

 with dark scales ; subbasal line prominent, black, from costa to 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line prominent, black, excurved below 

 costa and cell ; claviform defined by black at extremity ; orbicular 

 and reniform moderate, the former round with red-brown centre 

 and whitish annulus defined by black, the latter white defined by 

 black ; a diffused medial black line angled outwards on subcostal 

 and median nervxires, then incurved ; postmedial line black, bent 

 outwards below costa, very strongly incurved below vein 4 to lower 

 edge of reniform and origin of vein 2 ; postmedial area whitish, 

 then brown suffused with fuscous, indented by whitish streaks at 

 veins 6 and 5; some white points on costa towards apex; sub- 

 terminal line whitish with black suffusion before it and grey-brown 

 beyond it, defined on inner side at middle by dentate black marks, 

 somewhat dentate and at veins 7, 6, 4, 3 almost to termen ; a 

 terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia chequered whitish and 

 fuscous. Hind wing with the basal area dull smoky brown fol- 

 lowed by an oblique diflPused black antemedial line, then a broad 

 white band, the terminal half black ; cilia black at base, white 

 at tips ; the underside with the antemedial band very strong, the 

 white area angled outwards into the black at diseal fold. 



Hah. Canada, N.W. Brit. Columbia, 1 <S ; U.S.A., Colorado, 

 California, Nevada Co. Exp. 32 millim. 



