PEKSECTANIA. XTLOMANIA. 



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irrorated wltli grey ; tegul?e with fuscous and grey medial line ; 

 abdomen grey-brown, the anal tuft more ochreous brown. Fore 

 wing grey-brown suffused with purplish red and with slight dark 

 irroration ; the costal area greyish to near apex ; a prominent black 

 streak below base of cell; the subbasal line represented by slight 

 strife from costa and cell ; the antemedial line arising as double 

 strige from costa, then indistinct and highly dentate ; claviform 

 small, defined by black, sometimes nearly obsolete ; orbicular and 

 reniform small, greyish defined by black, the former elongate, the 



Fig. 103. — Vcrsectania afrisfriga, (^ . \, 



latter angled inwards on median nervure and with some fuscous in 

 lower part; postmedial line arising froai double striae from costa, 

 then indistinct, dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique and strongly 

 angled inwards in submedian fold ; subterrainal line represented by 

 a series of small ochreous and fuscous dentate marks, slightly angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of 

 black points. Hind wing fuscous brown, with the cilia rufous; the 

 underside pale irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal spot and 

 curved postmedial line. 



Hah. New Zealand (./. J. Walker), 3 c? , 1 $ , Auckland, (O.vlei/) 

 2 S type, (Enj/s) 1 $ , Otago {Mutton), 1 S , Marlborough (Skellon), 

 Id, 1 2 , (Mathew) 1 d" , Dunedin {Paniie), 3^,1$. Exp. 36- 

 44 millim. 



Genus XYLOMANIA, nov. 



Type, X. hiemalis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect to just beyond frons, the 2nd joint 

 fringed with hair below, the 3rd sliort ; frons smooth ; eyes lurge, rounded ; 

 tegulie dorsally produced into a slight ridge ; pro- and metathorax with 

 spreading crests; pectus clothed with woolly hair; tibiiB fringed with hair ; 

 abdomen with dorsal crest on. basal segment. Fore wing with the apex slightly 

 produced, the termen oblique and somewhat angled at vein 3; veins 3 and 5 

 from near angle of cell ; G irom upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 f(jrm the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 and (>, 7 shortly 

 stalked; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 8 anastomosing with the 

 cell near base. 



Sect. I. Antenna of male bipectinate, with rather long branches, the apex 

 simple. 



A. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform confluent... b'^hre^isiana. 



B. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform separate. 



a. Fore wing without black streak below base of cell erythrnlita,. 



h. Fore wing with black streak below base of cell h\emnli<. 



