514 Iv'OCXTJTD^. 



h. Fore -wing with the orbicular and reniform ahnost 

 obsolete. 



a}. Fore wiug dull brown irrorated with whitish californica. 



b^. Fore wing dull brown suifused witJi black insinuata. 



2744. HomoglaBa carbonaria. (Plate CVII. fig. 25.) 



Litlwjohane carbonaria, Harv. Can. Ent. viii. p. 55 (1876); Smith, Cat, 

 Noet. N. Am. p. 230. 



Head aud thorax purplish brown mixed with grey ; abdomen 

 grej'-brown. Fore wing pale ochreous brown, the costal area 

 sutfiised with grej^ and fuscous, the inner area with purplish 

 rufous ; subbasal line represented by a faint striga from eosta ; 

 antemedial line very indistinctly double, oblique, slightly waved ; 

 orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and ill-defined grey 

 annuli, the former round ; a slight curved medial line ; postmedial 

 line very indistinctly double, minutely waved, bent outwards below 

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

 greyish slightly defined by brown on inner side and with two 

 minute dentate black marks below costa, angled outwards at vein 7 

 and slightly excurved at middle ; a terminal series of slight brown 

 lunules. Hind wing grey with a faint purplish tinge, uniformly 

 suffused and irrorated with fuscous ; the cilia pale ; the underside 

 whitish irrorated with brown, a small discoidal lunule. 



Hah. Canada, Calgary (WoUey-Dod), 1 (^ ; U.S.A., Oregon, 

 Colorado (Bruce, Ooclcerell), 2 (S , Berkeley (Oslar), 1 (5" , 1 $ , 

 California. ^a7p. 42-44 millim. 



Larva. Head slightly bilobed, shining light brown, with dark 

 reticulation and curved vertical band which joins below a large 

 patch before ocelli. Body a little enlarged at joint 12, light 

 brown, thickly mottled and dotted with dark brown, nearly without 

 marks ; dorsal line narrow, straight, whitish ; subdorsal line similar 

 but more obscure ; substigmatal line faintl}^ indicated by its upper 

 edge ; cervical shield brown, not shining, with very faint pale 

 dorsal line and distinct subdorsal line ; anal plate small, brown, 

 light-edged ; feet without shields ; spiracles black-rimmed. Food- 

 plant, Willow.— H. G. B. 



2745. Homoglsea Mrcina. 



Homogltea Mrcina, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xviii. p. 240 (1875) ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 220. 



Head and thorax greyish fuscous often slightly tinged with 

 rufous ; abdomen greyish fuscous, the lateral fringes and anal tuft 



Fig. 172. — HomoglcBa Mrcina, (^ . \. 



tinged with rufous. Fore wing leaden fuscous suffused with grey 

 or pale rufous, sometimes slightly irrorated with black ; ante- 

 medial line indistinctly double filled in with grey, slightly incurved 



