16 JOHN B. SMITH. 



Smaller, short winged ; median shade prominent; reniforni almost as broad 

 as long, sides rounded ; no suborbicular tepitla. 



19. All the lines well marked ; s. t. line preceded for its full length by black 



spots bailey i. 



All the lines indistinct ; s. t. line marked by a geminate black spot opposite 

 anal angle and by another opposite cell querqiiera. 



20. All the lines and marks present, none of them in the least contrasting. 



viridipalleiis. 



21. Dark, blackish brown; vestiture very rough, squaniose; orbicular oblong, 



oblique, not contrasting; reniform reddish and smoky filled. 



pexata. 



Color as before ; vestiture more even ; orbicular round, clear gray ; reniform 



very large, contrasting, reddish, without smoky filling. ..(lilatocula. 



22. Maculation not prominently contrasting, no reddish shadings in primaries; 



dark blue-gray lepida. 



Maculation prominently contra.sting, with reddish shades at base, along in- 

 ternal margin and over reniform thaxteri. 



Xylina $«einiusta Grote. 



1874, Grt., 6th Kept. Peab. Ac. Sri., 34. Lithophane. 

 1893. Smith, Bull. 44, U. S. Nat. Mus., 228, Xylina. 



General color of head, thorax and primaries a powdery, rusty red over a 

 luteous base. Secondaries and abdomen more yellowish. Head and thorax im- 

 maculate. Primaries with the normal maculation all traceable, marked rather 

 by paler included shades, than by defining lines. Basal half line marked on 

 costa, yellowish. T. a. line geminate, the included space yellowish, defining 

 lines diffuse, scarcely darker than ground. In course outwardly oblique, a little 

 outcurved in the interspaces, most obviously so below the median vein. T. p. 

 line rather evenly and slightly sinuate, a little drawn in opposite the anal angle ; 

 inner defining line obscure, a little lunulate, the outer a series of black, white 

 centered venular dotlets; included space broad and a little yellowish. S. t. line 

 paler luteous, defined l)y the darker, smoky, terminal space. There is a series of 

 small, blackish intersiiaceal terminal spots. Median shade a little darker red or 

 brown, diffuse, darkening the outer portion of the median space, but not 

 markedly. Orbicular moderate, oval, oblique, narrowly outlined in yellow and 

 a little lightened by yellowish scales. Reniform moderate in size, upright, little 

 or not at all constricted centrally, annulate with yellowish, filled with smoky 

 shadings above and below which give it in some instance a figure-8 appearance. 

 Secondaries immaculate, save that the veins are little darker and the fringes a 

 little paler. Beneath powdery, all wings with a discal spot, primaries with ter- 

 minal space usually a little paler, secondaries with usually an extra median 

 dusky line. 



Expands 33-35 mm. = 1.32-1.40 inches. 



Hab. — Canada, New England States, northern New York. 



This species differs from all tiie others by its color, its very even 

 onuiinentation lacking all contrasts, by the even fringes of the pri- 

 maries and by the entirely hairy vestiture. It is not a common 

 form, and I have not had it from any point in New Jersey. The 



