42 JOHN B. SMITH. 



segments foUowiii":. IJeueatli smoky, powdery, with a carmine flush ; second- 

 aries paler, with an exterior line; all wings with a discal spot. 

 Expands 38-45 mm. = 1.25-1.80 inches. 



Hab. — Canada; New England States; Northern New York; 

 Manitoba; Washington ; probably throughout the Northern United 

 States from the Atlantic to the Pacific 



A long series of both sexes, varying a little in brightness of color, 

 but not markedly in any other way. The type of Mr. Grote's 

 variety washingtoniana — in the Neumogen collection — is nothing 

 more than a somewhat dark, intensely colored example, oi' which I 

 have an almost exact duplicate i'rom Connecticut. 



The soecies is altogether different from any of those preceding 

 and should be easily recognized. In the male tlie antennte have the 

 joints marked and the lateral tuftings well developed. 



Xyliiia diiatoeiila n. sp. 



Head black above, liKhtenino: through brown to red at the base of the palpi. 

 Collar brown to a black transverse line just below the brown tip. Thoracic disc 

 deep, blackish brown, the patagife with gray tipped scales intermixed. Anterior 

 crest evident, divided, posterior tufting truncate. Abdomen reddish gray, with 

 dorsal tufts, of which that on the 3rd segment is the most obvious. Primaries 

 l)lack and brown shaded over a blue-gray ground. A black curved basal streak, 

 above which is a brown shading which becomes gray on the costa. Basal line 

 geminate, black. T. a. line geminate, blackish, inner portion obscure, included 

 .space gray; in course outwardly oblique, even, a little outcurved. T. p. line 

 geminate, inner part lunulate, bla(tk ; outer even, smoky, lost over the outcurve ; 

 included space gray, in course it curves over the cell and is then deeply drawn in 

 to the middle of the reniform. S. t. line pale, sinuate, irregular, preceded by a 

 brown shade which becomes reddish, then gray before merging into a dark shad- 

 ing that follows the t. p. line. Apex gray, the narrow terminal space gray and 

 black shaded to the lunulate, narrow, terminal line. Median shade black, diffuse, 

 oblique, darkening the space between the ordinary spots and the outer j)ortion 

 of the median space. Claviform large, gray, not contrasting, incompletely out- 

 lined, a black line from its tip to the t. p. line. Orbicular round or nearly so, 

 large, gray, contrasting. Keniform very large, almost square, with rounded cor- 

 ners, reddish bi-own, with a central yellowish tinge. Secondaries pale, powdery, 

 dirty yellowish, with a slight reddish tint, veins, a discal lunule and a terminal 

 line smoky. Beneath reddish gray, powdery, with more or less obvious outer 

 line and discal spots best marked on the secondaries. 



Expands 45-48 mm. = 1.80-1.92 inches. 



Hab. — Seattle, Washington ; Sierra Nevada, California. 



Two males and one female before me and I have seen others. The 

 species resend^les pexata, and I had, from the description, identitied 

 this as Mr. Grote's ivashiiKjtoniana; but the type is really ^^exato. 

 The present species differs obviously in the very large, discolored, 

 ordinary spots and in the brown collar. The antennte of the male 

 are laterally tufted with moderately long cilije. 



