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trastingly pale, outer margin containing more or less distinct blackish 

 patches 33. 



32. Gray without red tint Hadena mactata, lona and jocasta. 



32. Ash-gray shaded with red-brown, the bar very heavy and outer margin 

 pale Hadenella (Oligia) minuscula. 



32. Dark blackish brown Xylophasia (Euniichtis) ducta. 



^2- T.p. line much curved and oblique outward across submedian space, marked 



with pure white (as is the reniform) and subterminal space beyond, 

 pale clay-color; male with pectinate antennae. 



Dryobota {Trachea) iHocata. 



33. T.p. line oblique inwards, less curved in submedian space, the white all 



replaced by light clay-color, subterminal space shaded and dusted with 

 light red ; male antennae simple . Trachea indocilis (Xylophasia remissa) . 



34. Black and white powdered Hadena (Eremobia) claudens. 



34. Not clear black and white 35- 



35. Black basal dash the most contrasting mark. .Xylophasia (Trachea) finiti ma. 



35. Basal dash (above anal vein) inconspicuous if present 36. 



36. Dull yellow with paler subterminal space and no dark markings. 



Hadena (Oligia) egens. 

 36. Even dull yellow, powdered with red-brown, usually with dark reniform 



and powdery marginal shade Agroperina (Orthosia) inficita. . 



36. Dull yellow, reddish in medial area, with single dark t.a. and t.p. lines. 



Xylophasia (Trichople.via) e.vornata. 

 36. Pale powdery luteous with red tint, dusted with brown toward margin. 



Orthosia (Agroperina) lutosa. 

 36. Light luteous-, or reddish brown, shading to powdery gray at inner margin, 



third joint of palpi long 37- 



36. Dull yellow, marked extensively with brown, with two blackish patches on 



margin 38- 



36. Wood brown, with contrasting blackish costa, extended in to fill cell and 



outer margin Macronoctua onusta. 



36. Red-brown, mottled and marked with luteous, all diffusely. 



Eremobia maillardi (Hadena e.viilis). 



36. Usually darker and not dull yellow or reddish.^ 39 



37. Middle of wing decidedly paler and yellower, contrasting with the reddish 



costa Xylophasia (Parastichtis) rornlenta. 



37. Wing almost evenly colored Xylophasia (Parastichtis) stiff usca. 



38. A contrasting blackish patch on costa, extending between orb. and ren. 



Xylophasia (Parastichtis) vulttiosa. 



38. No such contrasting patch Xylophasia (Parastichtis) apamiformis. 



39. Abdomen without decided tufts, vestiture very fine, thoracic tufts slight. 



Luperina passer and birnata. 

 39. Abdomen with a strong basal and sometimes a second weaker tuft. 



Xylophasia (Sidemia) devastatrix. 



1 Passer is occasionally dull reddish, but nearly evenly, without a sugges- 

 tion of the powdery mottling of maillardi. , ' 



