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NOCTUID^. 



*2275. Oncocnemis meadiana. 



Oncocncmis ineadiana, Mon*. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, p. 60 ; Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 160. 



Head and thorax bluish grey ; abdomen whitish. Fore -wing 

 bluish grey; subbasal line absent ; antemedial line single, regularly 

 curved; medial area slightly darker; claviform absent; orbicular 

 well developed, defined by black and with blackish centre, round ; 

 reniform sutfused with reddish and incompletely defined by black ; 

 a rather diffused medial shade ; postmedial line incurved from costa 

 to inner margin, intersecting lower part of reniform ; subterminal 

 line indistinct, pale, defined on each side by blackish marks, irregu- 

 larly interrupted ; a terminal series of black lunules ; cilia with a 

 fine white line at base. Hind wing whitish with a diffused fuscous 

 terminal band ; the underside white, the terminal area suffused 

 with fuscous. 



Hah. U.S.A., Arizona. Exj). 28 millim. This species is un- 

 known to me. 



2276. Oncocnemis nigricula. 



Agrotis nigricula, Ev. Bull. Soc. Mosc. 1847, iii. p. 79; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. 

 Schruett., Noct. f. 627 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 176. 



Head and thorax olive-brown tinged with fuscous ; abdomen 

 pale olive-brown. Fore wing glossy olive-brown tinged with fuscous ; 

 subbasal line represented by slight fuscous strigse from costa and 

 cell ; antemedial line single, indistinct, waved ; orbicular and reni- 

 form very faintly defined by fuscous, the former rather elongate 

 elliptical ; traces of a waved medial line ; postmedial line with some 

 diffused grey beyond it, double at costa, bent outwards below costa, 

 then minutely dentate, excurved to vein 4, then bent inwards to 

 below the reniform, some grey points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line very indistinct, greyish slightly defined by fuscous 

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

 incurved below vein 3 ; a fine black terminal line ; cilia with a 

 dark line near base. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the 

 terminal area broadly fuscous ; a discoidal lunule ; cilia whitish 

 with a brown line near base. 



Hah. EussiA, Sarepta, Zeller Coll. ; W. Turkestan, Saisan ; 

 W. Siberia, Altai ; Kamxschaxka. Exp. 32 millim. 



2277. Oncocnemis occata. (Plate XCIX. fig. 30.) 



Cleophana occata, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. v. p. 114 (1874); id. Bull. 

 Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. iii. pp. 9, 16, pi. 11. f. 6 ; Smith, Oat. Noct. N. Am. 

 p. 160. 



d . Head and thorax pale rufous mixed with whitish ; upper part 

 of frons and vertex of head black ; tegulse with large blackish patches ; 

 tarsi banded with black ; abdomen white irrorated with fuscous. Fore 

 wing pale rufous, the inner area to antemedial line and beyond the 



