154 



noctuid:e. 



■v^ith the basal area whitish suffused with fuscous brown to the 

 diffused blackish medial line, excurved at middle and followed by 

 a white band, the veins on it with dark streaks ; terminal area 

 fuscous black v\ ith sinuous inner edge ; cilia white with slight 

 dark line through them ; the underside with the basal area rather 

 whiter. 



Hab. Canada, Br. Columbia, Hope Pass {Mrs. NiclioU), 1 c5 , 1 $ , 

 Laggan, Agnes Lake. Exp. 30-34 millim. 



2262. Oncocnemis tenuifascia. (Plate XCIX. fig. 20.) 



Oncocnemis temdfascia, Smith, Ins. Life, i. p. 18 (1888) ; id. Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 159. 



Head and thorax brown mixed Avith black and a few whitish 

 scales ; tegulse with black lines at middle and near tips ; tarsi 

 blackish, with pale rings ; abdomen fuscous brown tinged with 

 greyish. Pore wing brown suffused with fuscous and greyish, 

 some whitish suffusion beyond postmedial line ; subbasal line 

 black, excurved, from costa to submedian fold : antemedial line 

 indistinctly double, oblique, waved ; claviform small, brown defined 

 by black ; orbicular and reniform small, with fuscous centres and 

 whitish annuli defined by black, the former round ; a diffused waved 

 black medial line ; postmedial line double filled in with whitish, 

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

 incurved, some slight black streaks beyond it on the veins and some 

 pale points on costa ; subterminal line pale, defined on inner side 

 by slight dentate black marks, excurved at vein 7 and middle ; a 

 terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia chequered fuscous and 

 brown and with fuscous line near base. Hind wing with the basal 

 area brown ; a sinuous fuscous medial band followed by an ochreous 

 white band, the terminal area fuscous ; cilia white, fuscous at base. 

 Underside of both wings grey-brown with curved black medial 

 band followed by an ochreous-white band, the terminal area of hind 

 wing black. 



Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, Hall Valley, 1 c? , S. Park {Oslar\ 3 J , 

 1 2 . Exp. 26 millim. 



2263. Oncocnemis exacta. 



Oncocneviis exacta, Christ. Eom. Mem. iii. p. 72, pi. 4. f. 1 (1887); Stand. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 176. 

 Oncoctiemis mongolica, Stand. Iris, ix. p. 260 (1896). 



S . Head and thorax grey-brown irrorated with fuscous ; tarsi 

 black ringed with white ; abdomen whitish irrorated with brown, 

 the anal tuft ochreous. Pore wing pale grey-brown irrorated with 

 dark brown, the terminal area suffused with fuscous to near post- 

 medial line ; subbasal line represented by black stria? from costa and 

 cell ; antemedial line oblique, waved ; claviform faintly defined by 

 a few dark scales ; orbicular and reniform ochreous white defined 

 by black and with bro\\ n centres, the former small, rather elongate 



