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2288. Oncocnemis chorda. (Plate C. fig. 7.) 



Homohadena chorda, Grote, Can. Eut. sii. p. 256 (.1880) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 157. 

 Oncocnemis refecta. Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 65, pi. vi. f. 11 



(1894) ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 127. 



(5 . Base of palpi black ; palpi and frons white ; vertex of head 

 black in front, pale rufous behind ; thorax pale rufous and whitish 

 with a few large black scales ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen 

 whitish tinged with brown and irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing 

 whitish suffused with reddish brown and irrorated with black, the 

 outer part of medial area except towards costa whiter, the terminal 

 area darker ; subbasal line represented by black striae from costa 

 and cell ; antemedial line strong, black, obliquely excurved and 

 slightlj^ waved ; claviform faintly defined by a few black scales ; 

 medial lino represented by a black spot ou costa ; orbicular and 

 reniform absent ; postmedial line black defined by whitish on outer 

 side, excurved from costa to vein 4, then somewhat oblique and 

 minutely waved ; subterminal line represented by a diffused blackish 

 shade, excurved below costa and incurved below vein 3 ; a terminal 

 series of small black lunules ; cilia white and dark brown. Hind 

 wing white, the veins irrorated with black, the terminal area 

 fuscous, narrowing to tornus; cilia white with a fuscous line through 

 them ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a 

 postmedial series of black points on the veins. 



Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, 1 c? type, California, Sierra Nevada. 

 Exp. 30 millim. 



*2289. Oncocnemis rosea. (Plate C. fig. 8.) 



Oncocnemis rosea, Smith, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. xi. p. 11 (1903). 



c5' . Head and tegulte rufous, the latter tipped with whitish ; 

 thorax whitish mixed with pale rufous ; tarsi rufous with dark 

 bands ; abdomen whitish tinged with rufous. Fore wing whitish, 

 mostly suffused and irrorated with pale rufous ; subbasal line repre- 

 sented by a small black spot below costa with a dark striga from 

 it ; a strong rather diffused black antemedial line, slightly excurved 

 and rather oblique ; orbicular and reniform whitish, ill-defined, the 

 former round ; medial line represented by a small blackish spot 

 on costa and an indistinct waved line from lower angle of cell to 

 inner margin ; postmedial line brown slightly defined by whitish on 

 outer side and with darker mark at costa, minutely dentate, excurved 

 from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line indistinct, 

 whitish, minutely dentate, defined on inner side by small faint 

 dentate brown marks, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a 

 terminal series of slight brown striie ; cilia pale rufous, whitish at 

 base and intersected with whitish. Hind wing white ; the veins 

 brownish ; terminal arcasuff'used with brown, narrowing to tornus; 



