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broken and indistinct. Transverse posterior line much broken and 

 incomplete, plainly marked on costa (as are all the transverse lines) 

 forming a geminate series of dark dots on the veins. Below third m. 

 nervule a pale lunulate mark, behind which a prominent dark dash. 

 Interspaces with central brown shade streaks and dashes. Subtermi- 

 nal line, faint, broken, incomplete. Terminally, opposite the disc, a 

 blackish shade, and another, extending inwardly to t. p. line, above 

 internal nervure. 



Posterior wings silky brown, immaculate, with pale, testaceous fringes, 

 which show an irregular, prominent, dark median line discontinued 

 before anal angle. Under surface of anterior wings dark testaceous, 

 irrorate with dark scales ; a dark discoloration along discal cross-vein ; 

 a subterminal, waved dark transverse line, geminate on costa; three 

 costal pale dots ; fringes dark. Posterior wings paler than primaries, 

 a distinct discal dark dot and two subterminal dark lines of which the 

 inner is most distinct. 



Head and thoracic region above concolorous with upper surface of 

 primaries; clypeus, pale; below the frontal tuft a dark line extending 

 across the front; tegula? lined with distinct dark scales, broadly marked 

 inwardly. Abdomen above darker, but nearly concolorous with seconda- 

 ries above; the male anal tufts, testaceous and sub-fulvous. A dark 

 lateral interrupted sub-anal line. Beneath, with thoracic region, paler. 

 Female, brighter colored. 



Exp. S 1.65 inch: Length of body 0.S0 inch. 



Habitat. — Middle States. Coll. Ent. Soc. Phil. 



A duller and smaller species than X. apamiformis, Guen. Mr. 

 Walker, to whom a specimen was sent, regarded it as allied to the Eu- 

 ropean X. polyodon, with which we are presently unacquainted. 



ANTHCECIA, Boisd. 

 Anthoecia hirtella, n. s. (Plate 3, fig. 3, % .) 



Anterior wings olivaceous-brown; median space densely covered with 

 pale grey scales; median lines well defined. Basal and subterminal 

 Spaces olivaceous-brown; basal half-line whitish. Median lines distinct, 

 faintly geminate, the transverse anterior dentate below costa, slightly 

 angulate at the median nervure, thence inwardly obliquely rounded to 

 internal margin. Transverse posterior line sinuate, slightly trembled 

 superiorly, approaching the transverse anterior line below the disc. 

 Median space thickly covered with whitish-grey scales inferiorly. tinged 

 with ochreous-brown on the disc before the reniform spot, which latter 

 is shaded centrally with greyish scales. Subterminal space olivaceous, 



