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apices of primaries with a light purple staiu (which may be accidental), a dot- 

 ted transverse exterior, and terminal line, fringes dark. Hind wings white, a 

 black discal dot, a black dotted median and terminal line, slightly dusted with 

 dark scales along costa. Head and thorax dark griseous, like primaries ; abdo- 

 men whitish gray with dark tuft. Feet gray ; tarsi dotted. 



Expanse, 35 m. m. HaUtat, California (Mr. James Belirens, 

 No. 8). This species has a spurious resemblance to Cerura ciuerea, 

 Walker. 



Xylomiges patalis, Orote, Plate 4, fig. 11, § . 



3 ? . — Eyes hairy ; male antennae more shortly ciliate beneath and with 

 the joints less prominent than in X. curialis. In the vestiture of head and 

 thorax the two species agree, while the basal abdominal tuft is not so marked 

 as in X. curialis. Pale whitish gray. Fore wings with a distinct black basal 

 longitudinal liture below the median vein always distinct, whereas the ordinary 

 marks vary in distinctness, and they are almost obliterate in one specimen. 

 Basal space very wide and the indistinct median lines are so approximate 

 inferiorly, that the large void claviform, distinctly black-margined, appears to 

 overlie the t. p. line. Median spots large, void, with narrow black annuli. 

 Orbicular obliquely decumbent, sometimes fused inferiorly with the erect 

 reniform. Transverse posterior line with a preceding dark shade on costal 

 region, before the angulation, and this shade is continued within the t. p. line 

 obliquely, more or less faintly, to internal margin. Subterminal with preced- 

 ing cuneiform blackish marks of which two more evident at submedian fold, 

 and again opposite the cell. Terminal space with the nervules finely liturate. 

 Fringes even; terminal line indistinct. Hind wings pale in S , without evident 

 marks ; with a median line, discal mark and subterminal fuscous shade in $ . 

 Beneath the fore wings are largely fuscous, terminally gray ; a common line and 

 evident discal marks ; terminal line interrupted ; a subterminal fuscous shade 

 medially interrupted on the hind wings in $ , in which sex all the markings 

 are more evident. 



Expanse, ^ 30, ? 34 m. m. Habitat, California (No. 155, coll. Mr. 

 Henry Edwards ; Nos. 14 and 10, coll. Mr. Belirens). 



A little smaller and wider-winged than X. curialis. When the 

 markings are obliterate on the fore wings above, the darker stains 

 before the subterminal line are yet perceivable. 



Anytus, n. g. 



Eyes naked, with lashes ; middle and hind tibiae spinose. Male antennae 

 not pectinate, but lengthily bristled beneath. Thorax a little flattened with 

 sharp corners, and therefore recalling Xylina, but here the frontal hairs are 



