390 NocTuiDJi;. 



703. Xylomania behrensiana. (Plate LXXXIX. fig. 10.) 



Graphiphora behrensiana, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 71 (1875) ; Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am, p. 208. 



$ . Head and thorax dull brown mixed with grey ; abdomen 

 brownish white irrorated with dark brown. Fore wirg brownish 

 grey, suffused with brown to the subterminal line and thickly 

 irrorated and striated with black-brown; the costal edge pale; 

 subbasal line blackish, defined by pale colour on outer side, waved, 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line defined by whitish 

 on inner side, oblique from costa to above inner margin, then angled 

 inwards ; orbicular and reniform defined by whitish, confluent and 

 forming a celt-shaped mark ; postmedial line double filled in with 

 whitish, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold, 

 incurved below vein 4 ; the veins of terminal half streaked with 

 whitish ; subterminal line whitish, excurved below costa and at 

 middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pinkish 

 white with slight dark irroration, especially on marginal areas ; the 

 underside with small black discoidal spot, curved postmedial series 

 of points on the veins and terminal series. 



Bab. U.S.A.., California, 1 § type. Exp. 40 millim. 



1704. Xylomania erythrolita. (Plate LXXXIX. fig. 11.) 



Graphipliora erythrolita, Grote, Can. Ent. xi. p. 208 (1879) ; Smith, Cat. 

 Noct, Jf. Am. p. 208, 



Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with dark brown ; shaft 

 of antennae crimson in male ; palpi tinged with crimson ; tarsi with 

 pale rings ; abdomen grey mixed with fuscous. Fore wing purplish 

 grey irrorated with dark brown, especially on basal half: subbasal 

 and antemedial lines represented by slight dark spots on costa; 

 orbicular and reniform dark with greyish annuli, the former small, 

 round, the latter obliquely curved ; traces of an oblique medial 

 line from cell to inner margin ; postmedial line indistinct, produced 

 to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, incurved at 

 discal fold and below vein 4; subterminal line indistinct, interrupted, 

 whitish defined by brown on inner side, prominently towards costa 

 and inner margin, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; a terminal series of brown stria). Hind wing grey suftused 

 with brown, especially on terminal area; the underside grey 

 irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot and curved postmedial 

 eeries of points on the veins. 



Ab. i Much more rufous in colour, 



Uah. U.S.A., California, 5 c? , 1 2 ■> type. Eccp. 34 millim. 



1 705, Xylomania hiemalis, 



Xiilomigcs hicmaJis, Grote, Bull. 13uff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 71 (1874) ; 



'Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 2:«. 

 Dryohota californica, Eehr. iStreck. I,op. Ehop. & Het. p. 94 (1874). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with brown and black ; frons with 



