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marked; fringes brownish. Secondaries glossy, brownish cinereous, 

 becoming paler to base, with an indistinct discal lunule and transverse 

 shade line. Fringes long, whitish. Beneath, both wings are pale, 

 -powdered with violet ashen and dark scales. Discal dots and trans- 

 verse shade lines, most distinct on secondaries. 



Expanse^ 36 m. m. Lewjtk of hodi/^ 15 m. m. 



Habitat. — Atlantic District. (Penna.!) 



This fine species, which is very distinct in its color and the ornamen- 

 tation of the primaries above, has a resemblance to certain species of 

 the genus Taeuiocampa. 



XYLINA, Ochs. 

 Xylina Bethunei, n. sp. (Plate 7, fig. 5fi, % .) 



% 9 • Size and form of Xylina signosa, Walk. Pale whitish cine- 

 reous shaded with ochreous. Head and thorax whitish, with ochreous 

 and ashen tinges. Head four-tufted on the front and behind the an- 

 tennae; these scale tufts are arranged in two pairs and projected hori- 

 zontally forwards. Labial palpi with a very narrow lateral dark line. 

 Antennae simple; the stem above clothed with pale scales, beneath it 

 is dark testaceous. The prothoracic scales beneath are stained darker 

 than the thoracic squamation, which is very pale ochraceous whitish 

 as are the under abdominal surface and legs; tarsi marked with dark 

 scales on the joints; tibiae sparsely touched here and there with black. 

 Above, the abdomen is ochraceous ashen, sprinkled with dark scales; 

 there is a median dark interrupted line. The thoracic squamation is 

 slightly mixed with dark scales, which are specially perceivable to- 

 wards the inner sides of the tegulae. The thorax has a central small 

 ochraceous tuft. 



Anterior wings with the ground color of a pale creamy-whitish, 

 largely shaded with ochraceous. Base of the wing pale olivaceous- 

 ochreous, shaded with whitish along costal region. The transverse 

 anterior line is indicated by black costal dots and by pairs of similar 

 dots on the subcostal, median and internal nervures. There are traces 

 of the line on the interspaces beyond these dots, which indicate that it 

 is interspaceally very zig-zag and dentate, but there is no coherence in 

 its course. Over the orbicular spot there is a transverse whitish shade. 

 Orbicular large, outwardly oblique, incomplete, annulated with dark 

 ochreous. Terminally the median space is dark olivaceous ochreous, 

 except along costal region, which is shaded with whitish. The reni- 

 form is large, inversely oblique with regard to the orbicular, a little 

 paler than the surrounding color of the wing and incompletely annu- 

 lated with dark ochreous. The space between the spots is narrow and 



