OLIGIA. 377 



white mixed with fuscous except towards tornus ; the underside 

 white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated and suffused with 

 red, a dark diseoidal point and curved postmedial and subterminal 

 lines. 



Hah. U.S.A., Eastern States, 1 $ , Massachusetts. Ea^p. 

 36 millim. 



3198. Oligia egens. (Plate CXVII. fig. 24.) 



Cclana egens, Wlk. x. 263 (1856); Smith, Cat. Koct. jST. Am. p. 144. 

 Hadena transfrons, Neum. Papilio, iii. p. 139 (1883); Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N.Am. p. 141. 



S . Head and thorax olive-white mixed with rufous brown and 

 black ; palpi rufous mixed with black ; frons with lateral dark bars ; 

 antennae ringed brown and white ; tegula3 with black medial line ; 

 prothoracic crest fiery red ; pectus grey, reddish in front ; legs 

 black and rufous mixed, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen 

 greyish more or less mixed with fuscous or rufous, the anal tuft 

 and ventral surface rufous. Fore wing olive to postmedial line, 

 more or less suffused with purplish red, the base whitish, the costal 

 area whitish and black to beyond middle, the postmedial area white, 

 the terminal area olive-brown ; subbasal line double filled in with 

 white, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line defined 

 by white on inner side, waved, angled inwards on vein 1, somewhat 

 oblique ; claviform minute, detinecl by olive ; orbicular and reniform 

 small, with olive centres and whitish annuli defined by olive, the 

 former round, the latter narrow and consti'icted at middle ; au 

 indistinct waved medial line oblique from costa to below cell ; post- 

 medial line bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate and 

 produced to slight black streaks on the veins, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved, some white points on an olive patch beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line white defined by olive on inner side, ex- 

 curved below vein 7 and at middle, the area beyond it olive-brown 

 with black streaks on the veins except at apex which is white ; a 

 lunulate dark terminal line ; cilia black and grey intersected with 

 reddish. Hind wing greyish nearly uniformly suffused with fuscous 

 black ; an indistinct sinuous postmedial line ; cilia Avhitish with a 

 black line through them ; the underside grey tinged with fuscous and 

 the costal and terminal areas with red, a diseoidal point and curved 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada, Hudson's Bay {Barnston). 1 S type ; Manitoba, 

 Cartwright {Heath), 1 $ , Aweme (Criddle), 1 $ , Alberta, Calgary 

 (WoUeif-Dod), 14 cS, High E. (Baird), ] 6 ; Br. Columbia. Exp. 

 32-34 millim. 



3199. Oligia fasciuncula. 



Noctua fasciuncula, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 215 (1809) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 165. 

 Apamea rubeuncula, Donz Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. vii. p. 430, pi. 12. ff. 3-4 



(1838) ; Herr.-SchafiP. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 499-501 ; Err. JMeiie 



Beitr. v. pi. 468. f. 2. 



