296 NocTuiD^. 



■ A. Fore wing black, the costal area broadly suffused with 



wh i te • conserta. 



B. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey. 



a. Fore wing with white streak defined above and below by 

 black in submedian fold from postmedial to subterminal 

 line. 



a^. Hind wing uniformly suffused with brown bonuscula. 



y. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area suffused 



with brown cinerea. 



h. Fore wing without white streak in submedian fold between 



postmedial and subterminal lines obliquata. 



2462. Pleroma conserta. (Plate CIII. fig. 18.) 



Valeria conserta, Grrote, Papilio, i. p. 58 (1881); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. 



Am. p. 235. 

 Tleroma a^podta, Smith, Ent. News Philad. iii. p. 252 (1892) ; id. Trans. 



Am. Ent. Soe. sxi. p. 81, pi. 1, row 2, f. 1 (1894) ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. 



Am. p. 169. 



$ . Head and thorax black with some white hair, vertex of head 

 white; tegulae white at base, with subbasal black line and whitish 

 tips ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen black mixed with 

 ochreous grey. Fore wing black ; the costal area broadly and 

 irregularly white to near apex, interrupted by the diffused ante- 

 medial and medial lines and the finer oblique postmedial line, which 

 are otherwise obsolete ; the basal area white, its outer edge angled 

 inwards in submedian fold ; a white discoidal lunule conjoined to 

 the costal area ; a subterminal series of diffused white lunules 

 except towards costa and inner margin ; cilia chequered white and 

 fuscous. Hitd wing greyish uniformly suffused with fuscous 

 brown ; cilia white with diffused brown line through them ; the 

 underside white irrorated with fuscous especially towards termen, 

 a slight discoidal lunule and curved postmedial series of slight 

 streaks on the veins. 



Hah. Canada, Br. Columbia, Victoria, Vancouver ( W. H. Danby), 

 1 $ ; U.S.A., Washington, 1 $ type. Exp. 36 millim. 



2463. Pleroma bonuscula. (Plate CIII. fig. 19.) 



Tleroma bonuscula. Smith, Can. Ent. xxx. p. 325 (1898); Dyar, Cat. Lep. 

 N. Am. p. 169. 



cJ . Head and thorax clothed with grey and black hair ; tegulae 

 with the basal half white with black Hue, the tips blackish ; tarsi 

 ringed with white ; abdomen blackish with some grey hair. Fore 

 wing grey strongly irrorated and suffused with black ; the costal 

 area slightly suffused with white ; the veins and submedian fold 

 streaked with black ; antemedial line oblique and diffused from 

 costa to median nervure, then finer, angled inwards on median 

 nervure, then oblique to inner margin ; reniform represented by a 

 slight lunule with oblique shade from costa to its upper edge ; 

 postmedial line indistinct, obliquely curved from costa to submedian 

 fold, where it becomes confluent with the antemedial line ; sub- 

 terminal line represented by a series of white points on slight 



