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No two of the spociinens wliicli I have seen are alike, and vet the 

 variation is ratlier in deptli of" ground color and the relative dis- 

 tinctness of the slight markings, than in any real difference of orna- 

 mentation. 



Xyloiiii(;es piilehella n. sp. (PI. v, fig. 2)— Ground color a fine carneoiis 

 gray, powdered with reddisli and black scales. Head darker in front, with a 

 blackish transverse line and the sides of the palpi blackish. Collar uniined. 

 patagiie with a snbniarginal powdery blackish line. Primaries with basal space 

 black filled, except above tlie basal streak and to the basal half line, where the 

 ground color obtains. Suhterniinal and terminal spaces except for the gray apical 

 patch, also black-filled. A red-brown shade over the reniforni to the t. p. line. 

 All the lines well marked. Basal litie geminate, brown, extending to the black 

 basal streak in the submedian interspace and with it inclosing the coucolorous 

 basal patch. T. a. line gensinate, brown, the inner portion merged into the dark 

 basal space, as a whole with a slight outcui ve, with small outcurves in tlie inter- 

 spaces, T. p. line geminate, the outer line merged in the dark s. t. space, tlie 

 inner brown, very little bent on the veins, the line as a whole with a broad out- 

 curve over the cell and a rather shallow incurve below. S. t. line pale gray, 

 slender, very even, starting from the pale apical spot and contrasting prominently 

 with the black ground through which it runs. A gray line at base of the fringes, 

 which are black and dentate. Through the terminal space the veins are pale 

 marked, and the fringes are cut with broader gray-brown opposite these veins. 

 There is a rather faintly marked, irreguiar, brown, median line. The claviform 

 is concolorous, brown ringed, short but very wide. Orbicular concolorous, oval, 

 oblique, black-ringed, and with an interior pale annnlus. Reniform large, up- 

 right, somewhat constricted at middle and dilated inferiorly. It is blai^k mar- 

 gined, followed by a pale line inwardly ; outwardly the pale line alone defines it. 

 It is suffused with reddish centrally and becomes blackish filled inferiorly. 

 Secondaries whitish, with a faint reddish yellow tinge, veins dusky, the pow- 

 dering becoming more obvious outwardly. A distinct smoky discal hinule. 

 Beneath whitish, black powdered, with a narrow, black, outer line, and a large 

 discal si)ot on all wings. Primaries with the s. t. space partly black-filled. Ex- 

 pands 37 mm.; 1.48 inches. 



Hab. — Vancouver. 



A single perfect male from Mr. Neumoegen's collection is heft, re 

 me. The species is the most beautiful thus far described in the 

 genus. It is an ally oi' rubrica Harvey, with much the same ground 

 color and general type of raaculation ; but easily distinguished by 

 the complete transverse lines and the contrasting black basal and 

 outer spaces. [Other specimens have since come to hand.] 



Floronia a|>|>o«$ita n. sp. (PI. i, second row, fig. D— Contrasting black 

 and white. Head, front blackish, vertex white. Palpi reddish fawn color, and 

 this is the prevailing tint of the underside, extending to the sides of the basal 

 segments of the abdomen. The upperside of the fore legs is darker, tip of tarsal 

 joints white ringed. Collar white at base, superiorly black. Thoracic disc black. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXI. (II) MARCH. 1894. 



