392 NocTciDj::. 



black ; subbasal line represented by two striae from costa ; ante- 

 medial line double, waved, oblique, intersected by an oblique black 

 streak in cell running to upper edge of orbicular, which is defined 

 by black, oblique elliptical, open above and confluent below with 

 tho reniform, which is dehned by black, has blackish centre and 

 has its lower part intersected by a black streak ; a diffused black 

 medial shade, oblique from costa to median nervure ; postmedial 

 line indistinctly double, minutely dentate, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line repre- 

 sented by a series of wedge-shaped black spots produced as streaks 

 to termen towards costa and inner margin ; cilia chequered black 

 and white. Hind wing white irrorated with blackish, and the 

 costal and inner areas tinged with pinkish brown ; a discoidal 

 lunule, postmedial series of short streaks on the veins, and series of 

 marks on termen and cilia, all more distinct on underside. 



Hah. Canada, Br. Columbia, in U.S. Nat. Mus. Exp. 42 millim. . 



1707. Xylomania peritalis. (Plate LXXXIX. fig, 13.) 



Xi/lomiges peritalis, Smith. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xv. p. 69 (1892); id. 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 23o. 



S . Grey mixed with vinous brown ; palpi blackish ; tegulae 

 with black medial line ; patagia edged with black ; tarsi banded 

 with black ; abdomen pale rufous. Pore wing white irrorated with 

 fuscous and slightly tinged with pale vinous at base ; a black 

 streak below base of cell ; subbasal and antemedial lines repre- 

 sented by dark strigse on costa ; claviform very large, defined by 

 black ; orbicular and reniform very large, almost contiuent, defined 

 by black, the former produced at lower extremity, the latter some- 

 what constricted at middle ; traces of a medial shade towards costa 

 and inner margin ; postmedial line represented by two striae on 

 costa and one on inner margin ; subterminal line only defined by 

 some black streaks before its medial part and in the interspaces 

 beyond it, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a 

 terminal series of black points ; cilia chequered white and black. 

 Hind wing white, the inner area tinged with pale rufous ; a black 

 terminal line ; the underside with large black discoidal lunule and 

 postmedial series of black stria? showing through to upperside. 



Hah. U.S.A., Oregon, Colorado, Glenwood Springs {Barnes), 1 cj" . 

 E.vp. 40 millim. 



1708. Xylomania cognata. 



Xylomiges cognata. Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 78, pi. t. f. 3 

 (1894) ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 158. 



Head and thorax white mixed with black ; tegulae with black 

 medial line ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen pale rufous. Fore 

 Tving white, irrorated with pale brown and fuscous and sometimes 

 tinged in parts with ochreous ; a double, waved, black subbasal line 

 from cost a to subracdian fold; a double, oblique, waved antemedial 



