158 NocTuiD.ii:. 



white ; abdomen "white irrorated with brown. Fore wing whitish 

 suflPuscd with pale brown and fuscous, leaving a white patch 

 beyond the postmedial line on inner half ; the veins of terminal 

 half streaked with black; a slight black streak below base of cell ; 

 subbasal line double, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial 

 line double, black filled in with white, angled outwards below 

 costa and inwards in submedian fold, on vein 1 and to inner margin ; 

 claviform very narrow, slightly detined by black ; orbicular and 

 reniform wbite defined by black, and with some brown in centres, 

 the former round ; an indistinct diffused waved medial line ; post- 

 medial line indistinctly double filled in with white, bent outwards 

 below costa, then minutely dentate, below vein 4 incurved to lower 

 edge of reuiform ; subterminal line represented by a series of white 

 dentate marks defined on inner side by wedge-shaped black marks 

 and with black marks beyond them ; a slightly waved black terminal 

 line ; cilia white with fine brown lines through them. Hind wang 

 white tinged with brown, the tefminal area broadly fuscous with 

 sinuous inner edge ; traces of a sinuous postmedial line; cilia white 

 with a fine brown line near base. Underside of both wings white, 

 the terminal area broadly fuscous wi^,h sinuous inner edge. 



Hah. U.S.A., Utah, Ashley Valley, Colorado, Berkeley, 1 $. 

 Eccp. 32 millim. 



2269. Oncocnemis saundersiana. (Plate XCIX. fig. 26.) 



Oncoaiemis saundersiana, Grote, Can. Eiit. viii. p. 29 (1876); Smith, Cat. 

 Koct. JSf. Am. p. 160. 



S . Head and thorax deep brownish fuscous ; metathoracic crest 

 black ; abdomen brown with a golden gloss. Fore wing pale brown 

 with a golden gloss ; the inner area to antemedial line and the 

 postmedial area suffused with whitish, the veins of terminal area 

 streaked with black ; subbasal line double, curved, from costa to 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line double, oblique, shghtly sinuous ; 

 claviform small, defined by black; orbicular and reniform small, 

 with brown centres and greyish annuli defined by black, the former 

 round ; a prominent diffused blackish medial line slightly excurved 

 at middle ; postmtdial line double, oblique from costa to vein 5, 

 then strongly incurved ; subterminal line formed of dentate whitish 

 marks, defined on inner side at middle by wedge-shaped black marks 

 and with black streaks beyond them, obsolescent towards costa and 

 bent outwards to tornus. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, 

 especially on basal area, the terminal area suffused with fuscous ; 

 cilia white, brownish at base ; the underside with slight discoidal 

 lunule and indistinct curved postmedial line, obsolete on inner 

 area. 



Hah. Canada, Ontario, Grimsby (Petitt), 2 (S type ; U.S.A., 

 Illinois, Missouri, Texas. Exp. 30-32 millim. 



