22 JOHN B. SMITH. 



Xylina gaiisapata Grote. 



1883, Grote, Papilio, iii, 77, Lithophane. 



1893. Smith, Bull. 44, U. S. Nat. Mus., 227, Xylina. 

 Allied to petnlca. Entirely of a dull purple-red, the primaries showing a gray 

 bloom. Fore wings with the two mesial lines brown, subparallel, outwardly 

 oblique from costa, more or less fragmentary and indistinct. Reniform a rusty 

 yellow stain. Claviform indicated in pale, with a small, brown, following mark. 

 Hind wings and abdomen dull red. Beneath, a brown discal spot on secondaries. 

 Frontal tuft a little darker beneath. 



Hab. — kSodii iSpi-ing-s in October (Behreus). 



One bred specimen, the wing.s on the left side a little unexpanded. 

 The marking are simple and the species readily deta('he<l. It is 

 much darker and more richly colored than its eastern allies, petulea, 

 ferrealis, etc. 



The above is, in es.sentials, Mr. Grote's description. 



The type is in the Edwards collection, and unlike any other of 

 the species in color, hence easily recognizable. The "claviform" 

 referred to in Mr. Grote's description is the long tooth of the t. a. 

 line characteristic of this series, and the brown following mark is 

 as in ferrealis and the allied forms. The thoracic crest is very 

 prominent but not so obviously divided. The abdominal tuftings 

 are not obvious in the specimen. 



Xylina ferrealis Grote. 



1874, Grt., 6th Rept. Peab. Acad. Sci., 32, Lithophane. 



1893, Smith, Bull. 44, U. S. Nat. Mus., 227, Xi/Hnn. 

 Head, thorax and primaries dull red-brown, powdered with gray scales. Head 

 with a deep brown line below the ordinary tufts, the space between them gray. 

 Collar gray tipped, a more or less obvious black line bordering this gray tip 

 below. Thoracic crest prominent in good examples and gray powdered. Patagise . 

 also gray powdered, the vestiture tine hair and flattened scales. In many speci- 

 mens the collar inferiorly is of the same color as the costal region of primaries, 

 and the thoracic disc agrees with the disc of primaries. Primaries with costal 

 region more or less gray from base to apex, a dark brown shade extending 

 through the centre of the wing. A slender, obscure, black longitudinal line 

 margins the i)ale costal space basjilly. Basal half line marked by geminate, 

 brown, obli(}ue lines across the basal space. T. a. line marked by geminate, 

 oblique brown lines on costa, and thereafter chiefly by pale included shades, thus 

 defining the usual long outward tooth in the submedian interspace. T. p. line 

 geminate, brown across the I'ale costal space, punetiform and geminate where 

 traceable on the veins below this point. S. t. line yellowish red, diffuse, incom- 

 plete, irregular, lost in the costal space. Median shade marked between the 

 ordinary spots, and sometimes across the costal region. A series of black termi- 

 nal lunules and a pale line at the base of the fringes. Orbicular narrow, oblique, 

 ringed with luteous, centre grayish or reddish, sometimes concolorous with cos- 

 tal region, approaching close to and .sometimes touching the reniform. Reniform 



