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spots and darkening the inner portion of the reuiforni. No claviform. Orbicu- 

 lar large, a little paler than the ground, somewhat lunate, the convexity toward 

 base, concavity distinctly black edged, else margin not well defined. Reniform 

 large, almost as broad as long, basal half darker, outer half a little paler than 

 ground ; inner margin black edged, else not well defined. Secondaries and abdo- 

 men smoky, with a reddish tint, the former with pale tipped fringes, the latter 

 without dorsal tufts. Beneath reddish gray, powdery; primaries with disc 

 smoky ; secondaries with an outer line ; all wings with discal spots better marked 

 on the secondaries. 



Expands 37 mm. = 1.48 inches. 



Hab. — Massachusetts; Long Island, New York. 



Only one female is before me and I have seen only one or two 

 others aside fron] the type. The species is distinctly rare and abso- 

 lutely unmistakable. It intensifies the thoracic characters noted in 

 querquera and has practically no ci'est at all. 



Xyliiia pexata Grote. 



1874, Grt., 6th Kept. I'eab. Ac. Sci., 35, Lithophane. 



1878, Graef, Bull. Bkln. Ent. Soc, i, 10, = ingrica. 



1883, Grt., Proc. Am. Phil. Soc, xxi, 160, ? = ingrica. 



1893, Smith, Bull. 44, U. S. Nat. Mus., 230, Xylina. 

 washingtoniana Grote. 



1883, Grt., Papilio, iii, 74, Lithophane, var. prjec. 



1893, Smith, Bull. 44, U. S. Nat. Mus., 230, Xylina. 

 Head and thorax dark, blackish brown, head more reddish inferiorly, tuftings 

 fairly marked. Thoracic vestiture scales and flattened hair, anterior crest promi- 

 nent, divided, posterior tuft obvious and truncate. In well preserved specimens 

 the patagige have an admixture of white tipped scales and are white margined at 

 the insertion of the primaries. The fore wings have an ashen gray ba.se. over 

 which is a red-brown shade and a dense powdering of black. In rubbed exani- 

 ples the gray is evident and the shadings are localized. A short, slender, curved, 

 black basal mark, diffuse inferiorly, margined by contrasting yellow or white 

 above. Basal line geminate, black, marked on the costa only. T. a. line black, 

 outwardly oblique, a little outcurved in the interspaces, almost lost in the darker 

 examples. T. p. line geminate, blackish, broken, incomplete, lunate, not well 

 deiined, except in the submedian interspace where it is followed by white oi- 

 yellow scales; a few such scales also occur in some examples below the internal 

 vein. S. t. line pale, distinct, irregular, preceded by a reddish, brown or black 

 shading, which is sometimes broken up into spots. A gray shade extends through 

 the s. t. space from the apex close to the defining shade of the s. t. line. There is 

 a series of black, interspaceal, terminal lunules. A median shade is traceable in 

 some specimens between the ordinary spots, but in most examples this is lost in 

 the dark powdering. Claviform short, broad, concolorous, or with a gray shade, 

 and from its tip a black line extends to the t. p. line. Orbicular oblong, oblique, 

 black margined, annulate with white or yellow, brown centered. Reniform very 

 broadly kidney shaped, in some specimens almost a rectangle, reddish filled, 

 annulate by a narrow ring of white or gray, marked by black scales. Second- 

 aries yellowish smoky, fringes paler, with a reddish tint. Abdomen smoky gray, 

 with a prominent black dorsal tuft on segment 3, and smaller tufts on the two 



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