'^66 [November 



Beneath the fore wings are smoky cinereous, and on the costa are 

 four alternate light and dark spots. Fringe dark on the termination of 

 the nervules. Hind wings lighter. Abdomen a little lighter beueath 

 than above, with no mesial line, and the anal tuft is deeply bifid. 



Length of body, .90; exp. wings 1.55 — 1.70 inch. 



Mass., (Harris Coll.) New York, (Grrote.) 



Coelodasys cinereo-frons n. sp. 



9 . Cinereous and blackish brown. Costa cinereous beyond the base 

 of the fore wings. Vertical tuft dark above. Sides of the thorax 

 blackish brown. The ashen costa of the primaries widens towards the 

 middle of the wing, with a few dark scales. The remainder of the 

 wing is of an uniform blackish brown, except below the internal ner- 

 vure, which is fusco-cinereous, slightly spreading out towards the cine- 

 reous costa. Discal spot large oval, light cinereous. A submarginal 

 row of fusco-cinerous dots. Fringe reddish ashen on the nervules. 



Secondaries smoky, darker without; two light spots on the internal 

 angle. 



Beneath, the wings are smoky, but lighter towards the outer margin. 

 E'ringe blackish, interrupted without by lighter spots. A slight red- 

 dish line on the underside of the abdomen. 



Length of body, .85; exp. wings, 1.80 inch. 



•'Cambridge, June lU," Harris. (Harris Coll) 



XYLINODES nov. gen. 

 % . Head prominent, front subtriangular, a vertical porrect tuft. The 

 palpi are short and stout, porrect, hardly reaching the front, tips obtuse; 

 beneath clothed with short scales. Antenna3 rather broadly pectinated 

 to the outer third, branches long stout, tipped with ciliae. Thorax 

 moderately stout, scales of the pronotem distinct, not crested above, 

 beneath very densely pilose, with a long pectoral tuft. Fore wings 

 long and narrow, being a little more than one-third as broad as long. 

 Costa straight, outer margin very long, internal angle rounded, and a 

 little within the inner margin is a prominent tuft of dark scales. The 

 2d and 3d subcostal nervules are closely approximate, intercostal spaces 

 very narrow, linear. The 4th subcostal arises within the middle of the 

 intercostal space. The upper discal nervure is curved somewhat 

 obli(iuely inwards to the origin of the 5th s. c, thence very obli((uely 



