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NOcrriD-H. 



*2294. Oncocnemis pohono. (Plate C. fig. 18.) 



Oncocnemis pohono, Smith, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. vii. p. 38 (1899) ; Dyar, Cat. 

 Lep. N. AiS. p. 126. 



S • Head and thorax fuscous black irrorated with a few white 

 scales. Fore wing fuscous black ; subbasal line double, black with 

 a few white scales in middle ; antemedial line single, defined on 

 inner side by a few white scales, somewhat oblique, excurved in 

 interspaces ; claviform absent ; orbicular very small, round, slightly 

 defined by black ; reniform a narrow lunule defined by white 

 scales ; postmedial line single, black defined by white scales on 

 outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 slightly incurved and with black points beyond it on the veins ; 

 subterminal line irregularly diffused towards inner margin ; a ter- 

 minal series of slight black lunules. Hind wing pale at base, tinged 

 with fuscous towards termen ; cilia with a pale line at base and 

 white tips ; the underside whitish at base, then grey with some 

 dark irroratiou, a dark discoidal spot. 



Hab. U.S.A., California, High Sierras, Ex^j. 32 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me ; figured from a drawing from type in 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. 



2295. Oncocnemis umbrifascia. (Plate C. fig. 14.) 



Oncocnemis tmihrifascia, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xsi. p. 64 (1894) ; 

 Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 125. 



6 . Head , blackish in front, grey behind ; thorax grey-white 

 irrorated with brown ; abdomen pale grey with an ochreous tinge 

 and some brown irroratiou. Fore wing grey-white irrorated with 

 large brown scales ; medial area black-brown irrorated by grey 

 towards costa and bounded by the ante- and postmedial lines, which 

 are white, the former angled outwards below costa and incurved 

 below cell, the J after strongly excurved between veins 6 and 4, then 

 incurved to lower edge of reniform and sinuous to inuer margin ; 

 orbicular and reniform small, defined by white, tlie former indistinct, 

 round ; terminal area slightly suffused with brown ; traces of a 

 terminal series of black points ; a fine white line at base of cilia. 

 Hind wing white Avith a slight brown tinge, the veins and terminal 

 area irrorated with brown ; cilia white with a slight brown line at 

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

 postmedial series of slight streaks on the veins and fine terminal 

 line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado (Bruce), 1 S . Exp. 32 millim. 



2296. Oncocnemis atrifasciata. (Plate C. fig. 15.) 



Metahadena atrifasciata, Morr. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, p. 431 ; 

 Suiith, Cat. Noct N. Am. p. 159. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown slightly mixed with 

 grey ; pectus and legs greyer, the tarsi ringed with white, the anal 

 tult rufous. Fore wing grey irrorated with dark brown and black, 



