278 GEORGE D. HULST. 



Species. — E. diver.nlineaium Hiib. 

 E. popnlatam L. 

 E. testatum L. 

 E. destinatum Moesch. 

 E. jjrunatum L. 

 E. nubllutnm Pack. 

 E. atrocoloratum Grt. 

 E. explanatwm Walk, (cimigerata WlkS) 



26. NEOL.KXIA n. gen. 

 Type xijlina Hulst. 



Pal})i long, porrect, or somewhat drooping, second segment long 

 haired; tongue quite strong ; c'lypeus with a conical tuft; antenna? 

 of %) bipectinate; thorax with dorsal tuft of hairs posteriorly. Legs 

 with all spurs present ; fore Mings 12 veined, with two accessory cells 

 and with a strong pencil of hairs below near base of 16; hind wings 

 8 veins, 4 and 5 separate, 6 and 7 separate, 8 joined with the cell 

 one-half its length. 



Species. — N. xylin.a Hulst, n. sp. 

 N. Hpeciom Hulst, n. sp. 



N. xyliiia. n. sp. — Expands 38-40 mm. Palpi and head oclireous fuscous; 

 antennip fuscous, with a slight ochreous tinge ; thorax ochreous. the post-dorsal 

 tuft yellowish. Abdomen buff on the sides, posteriorly somewhat reddish brown ; 

 fore wings grayish and brown, the latter forming a broad band filling the basal 

 field about one-fourth of the length of wing along costa, with two or three rather 

 faint, darker, subparallel cross-lines included, the outer margin unevenly sinuate, 

 the most prominent bend, almost a dentation, being on cell ; this i.s followed by a 

 band of grayish considerably stained with brown, the outer edge being unevenly 

 sinuous, the strongest bend being at the submedian outwardly, then follows a 

 very broad brown band, broader at costa than on the inner margin with two in- 

 cluded sinuate shade lines near middle, these sh(»wing with whitish along costa; 

 the outer edge of the band is unevenly sinuate, rounded inwardly below costa, 

 where it is edged outwardly with whitish, then rounded outwardly and strongly 

 at the middle and again below, then running straight to costa. the scallops being 

 divided by teeth at veins 2, .'3 and 4, that at 4 being the least prominent ; beyond 

 the wing is grayish with brown timings, with three black triangular spots, base 

 inward beyond the white lunule beyond disc, and with a brownish subtriangular 

 spot on outer edge below apex ; marginal line bhu^k broken ; hind wings fuscous 

 gray, blackish lines showing on inner margin outwardly and fading into indis- 

 tinct dentate lines across the wing ; beneath ochreous gra.^. powdered with brown- 

 ish on the fore wings, the outer i)art of the middle band and the outer subapical 

 spot showing; on hind wings a faint suhmarginal line dentate emphasized at the 

 points giving tin' a])peanuice of a row of fainl blackish spots. 



