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the latter slightly excavated on the outer side : hindwings cinereous. Palpi erect, 

 pubescent, rising much higher than the vertex, third joint lanceolate, more than half 

 length of the second ; antennte setose ; abdomen cinereous, tarsi blackish, their 

 joints with cinereous tips. 

 " Expanse 16 lines." 



Family XYLINIDiE. 



Imago with oblong wings, folded iu repose, forming a flattened roof and giving 

 the insect an elongated appearance ; collar often crested. Larva smooth, generally 

 of brilliant colours, living exposed on low plants or trees. Pupa often furnished with 

 projecting ventral appendages ; enclosed in a cocoon of variable consistence, either 

 subterranean or above ground. (Staiiitoa.) 



Genus LITHOPHANE. 



Lithopliane, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Sclimett. p. 242 (1818-25). 



Gi'apliolitha, Hiibner, id. p. 243. 



A'_y?i'»a! (part), Ochsenheimer ; Stephens; Giienee; Walker. 



Forewing elongated, narrow, apex pointed, exterior margin oblique, slightly 

 scalloped hindward ; cell long, narrow, extending three-fifths the length ; first 

 subcostal emitted at one-half before end of the cell, second at one-fifth, trifid, fifth 

 from end of the cell, slightly touching third near its base ; discocellular concave, 

 radials from upper and near lower ends ; middle median from close to end of the 

 cell, lower at one-third before the end ; submedian slightly curved : hindwing narrow, 

 apex slightly produced, exterior margin waved and slightly scalloped ; two subcostals 

 from immediately beyond end of the cell ; discocellular concave, radial from near 

 lower end ; two upper medians from end of the cell, lower at one-third ; submedian 

 and internal vein straight. Body moderate, thorax and abdomen crested; palpi 

 porrect, laxly pilose beneath, third joint laxly squamose ; antennas minutely pecti- 

 nated; legs pilose, spurs rather short. {X. petrijicata.) 



LITHOPHANE DEFLEXA. 



X^lhia deflexa, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 751 (1865). 



" Female. Pale fawn colour : forewino-s ochraceous on more or less of the third 



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half and along the exterior border, except at the tips ; lines blackish, undulating, 

 denticulated, accompanied by some whitish points, diffuse, indistinct, sometimes 

 almost obsolete ; submarginal line forming an obtuse angle outward in front ; mar- 

 ginal points black ; orbicular and reniform marks almost obsolete, the latter having, 

 behind it a pale testaceous spot, which on its outer side joins a black spot of equal 

 size; a pale cinereous line along the interior border and a blackish tinge by the 



