XYLOMANIA. 395 



underside with black discoidal spot and postmedial series of stria) 

 showing through to upperside. 



Hab. Canada, Vancouver I. {Dr. LyaU, W. H. Danly\ 2 S type ; 

 U.S.A., Washington, 1 $ , Oregon, Portland, Colorado, California, 

 Sanzalito, 2 c5" , 1 $ , type crucialis. Exp. 36-4-1 millim. 



Larva. Head very slightly bilobed, shining brown, the sutures 

 and mottling on the sides lighter. Body green or brown, finely 

 dotted with white; dorsal, lateral, and suprastigmatal lines fine, 

 white, straight. Shields very slightly chitinized, lighter than the 

 body, pale, unmarked. Spiracles black, surrounded by reddish. 

 Food-plants, various shrubs. — H. G. D. 



1711. Xylomania indurata. (Plate LXXXIX. fig. 15.) 



Xylomigcs indurata, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 80, pi. iv. f. 7 

 (1894) ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 153. 



J . Head and thorax clothed with dark brown and grey scales ; 

 abdomen grey dorsally tinged with ochreous, ventrally irrorated 

 with brown. Fore wing bluish grey strongly irrorated with fuscous; 

 the ante- and postmedial lines represented bj- traces of dark points 

 on the veins ; claviform rather large, obscurely defined by brown ; 

 orbicular and reniform obscurely defined by brown, the former 

 rounded ; the subterminal line only defined by an indistinct series 

 of small dentate dark marks on its inner side ; an indistinct oblique 

 dark shade from termen below apex; cilia intersected with whitish. 

 Hind wing white sparsely irrorated with brown, especially on the 

 veins, the inner margin tinged with pale reddish brown ; the under- 

 side with black discoidal lunule and postmedial series of short streaks 

 on the veins showing through to upperside. 



Hab. U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs (Barnes, Oslar), 2 J, 

 3 2 ; Durango (Oslar), 1 d" . Eap. 46 millim. 



1712. Xylomania curialis. (Plate LXXXIX. fig. 16.) 



Xylomiqcs curialis, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 143 (1873) ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 233. 



Head and thorax clothed with bluish-grey and brown scales ; 

 tarsi banded with black ; abdomen white, dorsally tinged with 

 ochreous, ventrally irrorated with brown. Fore wing bluish grey 

 irrorated and sutt'used with fuscous brown, the submedian and 

 discal folds often with a reddish tinge ; the veins slightly streaked 

 wath black, the subbasal line represented by an indistinct dark 

 striga from costa ; the antemedial line very indistinct, waved ; 

 claviform rather large, defined by blackish ; orbicular and reniform 

 obscurely defined by blackish, the former round, the latter with 

 some black in its lower part and often some red on its outer edge ; 

 postmedial lino very indistinct, dentate and produced to points on 

 the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 oblique ; the subterminal lino grey, defined by small dentate dark 

 marks on its inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and slightly 

 excurved at middle ; traces of a terminal scries of dark points. 



