0XCOCXEMI3. ] 6 L 



terminal half suffused with, brown ; subbasal line represented by a 

 dark striga from costa ; antemedial line indistinct, double, minutely 

 waved, somewhat oblique ; orbicular and reniform hardly traceable, 

 with faint whitish annuli, the former rather elongate elliptical ; a 

 diffused blackish shade before the postmedial line angled outwards 

 at lower angle of cell ; postmedial line hardly traceable, slightly 

 bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line very indistinct, dark, 

 slightly angled outwards at vein 7 aud excurved at middle, with 

 greyer patch beyond it at tornus and slight dentate dark marks on 

 its inner side. Hind wing pale grey, the terminal area suffused 

 with fuscous, the underside with slight discoidal lunule and post- 

 medial series of minute dark streaks on the veins. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado desert (Stretch), 1 § co-type, Exjj. 

 28 millim. 



2274. Oncocnemis confusa. 



Noctua confusa, Frr. Neue Beitr. iv. pi. 303. f. 1 (1839) ; Ev. Faun. Ur. 



Volg. p. 206; id. Bull. Mosc. 185(), ii. p. 223 ; Herr.-Scliaff. Eur. Schmett.. 



Noct. ff. 44-5 ; Staud. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 176. 

 Agrotis diffusa, Guen. NocL. iii. p. 399 (1852). 

 Oncocnemis -nifescens, Staud. Gat. Lep. Eur. p. 94 (1871). 



Head and thorax grey-brown mixed with some fuscous ; pectus 

 and legs pale ochreous ; abdomen pale ochreous suffused with 

 brown. Fore wing grey-brown irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal 

 line represented by two striae from costa ; antemedial line double, 

 waved, somewhat oblique ; claviform very indistinct, small, pale, 

 defined by a few dark scales ; orbicular and reniform pale faintly 

 defined by fuscous, the former elongate, the latter small; a waved 

 medial line forming a dark patch between the stigmata ; postmedial 

 line double at costa, then single, minutely dentate, and produced to 

 dark streaks on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; sub- 

 terminal line pale defined by fuscous, and with slight dentate dark 

 marks on inner side, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved 

 at middle, the area beyond it somewhat darker ; a terminal series 

 of small black lunules ; cilia with a fine ochreous line at base. 

 Hind wing pale ochreous tinged with brown, the terminal area 

 suffused with fuscous ; cilia ochreous with a brown line near base ; 

 the underside whitish slightly irrorated with brown, the terminal 

 area suffused with fuscous ; a discoidal point and slight curved post- 

 medial line. 



Ab. 1. rufescens. Head, thorax, and fore wing with the ground- 

 colour pale rufous. — Urals, 



JIab. Russia, Urals, Zeller and d'Emmich Colls,, Sarepta, Zeller 

 and Crowley Colls. ; Armei^ia ; W. Turkestan-, Turcomania. Exp. 

 30-36 millim. 



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