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7. Genus: Oleiee Hbn. 
$. Antennae deeply bipectinate, the branches with terminal bristles. Palpi upturned, densely scaled. 
Abdomen with dorsal crests. Legs hairy including tarsi; hind tibiae with two pairs of spurs. Fore wing in type 
species broad or frecpiently narrow; vein 2 well before angle of cell; 3 near angle; 4 from angle, 5 slightly 
above; vein 6 from upper angle; areole present; veins 7, 8, 10 from areole, 9 on long stalk with 8; vein 11 free 
running closely along subcostal, sometimes suffusing shortly with it. (This occurs in mendosa occasionally). 
Hindwing: vein 2 well before angle; 3 and 4 slightly apart or from angle; 5 slighty above angle; 6 and 7 on 
short stalk. 
Type: 0. mendosa Hbn. 
0. basiflava Pack. (= clintoni G. &■ B.) (72, c, d). £. Eorewing grey mottled with brown and drab; basiflava. 
antemedial line fine black, faintly wavy dentate above cell; medial space from costa to median vein whitish 
with dark irrorations; postmedial line slightly outcurved, black, fine wavy; terminal space with brown mottlings 
irregularly defined. Hindwings brown; a fuscous discal spot and traces of a postmedial dark line. §. Base 
of fore wing yellowish brown with chestnut brown markings; antemedial line outbent, incurved below cell; 
medial space with whitish anterior space as in male, from cell to inner margin more mouse grey; postmedial 
line followed by a broad chestnut brown shade on interspaces; a pale wavy subterminal line. North Atlantic 
States. — f. meridionalis B. 6c. McD. (72 d) has the smaller, the base darker, the medial space below cell meridiona- 
greyer; the $ has a white-grey abdomen, the dorsal tufts chestnut brown very distinct; the entire medial space 
whitish crossed by a faint darker grey shade; antemedial line consisting of a narrow brown shade; a fine black 
line on discocellular; termen irregularly whitish grey; a black terminal line, very irregular towards tornus. 
Florida. 
0. kervillei B. 6c McD. (72 c). (J. Body light drab, the dorsal tufts on abdomen black. Forewing: kervillei. 
basal and terminal areas light cinnamon drab, the medial space greyer; lines black, the antemedial forming 
several curves, the postmedial vertical from costa to vein 5 then sinuous. Hindwing light cinnamon drab. 
Kerrville, Texas. 
0. vagans B. 6c McD. (72 d). $. Head and collar drab grey; thorax and abdomen ham brown. Fore- vagans. 
wing drab grey tinged with olive; antemedial line vertical somewhat sinuous; medial space greyer; discal space 
whitish with a large reniform finely outlined in black; postmedial line outcurved beyond cell, incurved in sub- 
medial space; postmedial followed from vein 4 to costa by a broad olivaceous brown space, limited by the pale 
irregular sub terminal shade. Hindwing drab with faint dark discal spot, and a dark subterminal line. $. Fore- 
wing : the brown basal space with darker suffusions and limited by the wavy antemedial fuscous line; medial 
space whitish with dark irrorations on costal half, the reniform outlined in black; medial space below cell neutral 
grey; postmedial line fine, black, wavy, followed by a broad benzo brown shade, narrowing towards inner 
margin, and limited by an irregular subterminal whitish shade. North Eastern States; Canada. — subsp. 
grisea B. 6s McD. (72 e). and $ greyer with some light drab suffusions, the basal areas with dark suffusions; grisea. 
antemedial an irregular narrow shade; reniform incurved, outlined by a black line; postmedial vertical from 
costa in incurved in $ where it is followed by a greyish brown shade, limited by the whitish subterminal 
shade. Hindwings drab in <$, paler in £; a dark discal spot and postmedial darker line. Utah. — subsp. 
willing! B. 6c McD. (72 e). <$. Much darker than two preceding forms, of a general suffused blue black appearance, willingi. 
Forewing: antemedial line broad, wavy; postmedial finer, followed by a broad dark shade; medial space paler 
especially around reniform, below cell colour variable; subterminal whitish indistinct. Hindwing hair brown. 
Humboldt, Sask., Canada. 
0. atrivenosa Palm. (72 e). <$. Forewing greyish fuscous, the veins with blackish brown scales; inner atrivenosu 
half of wing paler with several irregular whitish patches; postmedial line black, somewhat curved, and 
inangled above submedian, followed by a dark shade, its outer edge irregular, narrower below vein 4; sub¬ 
terminal shade greyish, diffuse. Hindwing greyish fuscous with dark discal spot; termen broadly paler. This 
species is only known to me by description of Barnes and McDunnough and figure from photograph of type. 
Arkansas. 
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