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SOME NEW SPECIES OF HADENA. 



BY JOHN B. SMITH, RUT(;ERS COLLEGE, NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J. 



Hadena (Xylophasia) rtmata, n. sp. 



Ground colour smoky brown or blackish, varying in shade even to 

 a reddish admixture. Head usually a little reddish, with a black band 

 crossing the front. Collar usually paler at the base, crossed by a black 

 line about the middle ; usually tipped with paler scales. Thorax with a 

 distinct divided crest, which often contains an admixture of lighter 

 vestiture, patagije with paler tips, a. blackish submargin, and a disk as 

 dark as the general ground colour. Primaries powdery, mottled, with all 

 the markings well defined ; no contrasts, save that the median space is 

 usually darker than the rest of the wing. Basal line geminate, black, 

 including a few whitish scales, and reaching to a narrow, short basal line 

 which ends at the point of junction with the transverse marking. T. a. 

 line black, geminate, the outer defining line well marked, the inner 

 vague, except at the internal margin, where an oblique black shade 

 extends inward along the margin. The line is well removed from the 

 base, outcurved as a whole and in the interspaces. T. p. line geminate, 

 blackish, the inner portion lunulate and best marked, the outer more 

 even, less defined, marked with blackish dots on the veins. As a whole, 

 it is outwardly bent on the costa, and then runs very evenly and almost 

 parallel with the outer margin. A vague median shade is visible on the 

 costa and between the ordinary spots, but becomes lost below that point. 

 S. t, line white or very pale brown, only a little irregular, except where it 

 forms a distinct, though small, W on veins 3 and 4. Two or three 

 sagittate black spots precede the line at the W, and a dusky shade may 

 extend the full length, sometimes adding other spots, or again losing all 

 of them. Terminal space darker, except at apex. A series of black 

 terminal lunules. Fringes cut with pale and a similar line at base, 

 giving a festooned appearance. Claviform short, broad, more or less 

 black filled, a black or blackish shade extending to the t. p. line and 

 broadening outwardly. Orbicular oval, oblique, with a black ring 

 inwardly edged by pale scales, of the palest ground colour. Reniform 

 large, kidney-shaped, upright, incomplete above and below, outlined in 

 black outside of a paler line, the centre of the ground colour. As the 

 median space is darker than the rest of the wing, these spots are relieved 

 and somewhat contrasting. Secondaries smoky gray, paler at base, 

 fringes yellow at base ; there is a dusky discal lunule and a blackish 



