XTLOMANIA. ^397 



submedian fold, the veins beyond it streaked with black ; a ter- 

 minal series of small black huiules. Hind wing white sparsely 

 irrorated with black, a terminal blackish line, the underside with 

 large black discoidal lunnle. 



Hah. U.S.A., Maine, 1 5 type, New Hampshire, White Mts., 

 New York, Plattsburgh, Colorado. Exp. 42 millim. 



1715. Xylomania perlubens. (Plate LXXXIX. fig. 19.) 



Xylomigcs pcrlulxns, Grote, Can. Eiit. xiii. p. 132(1881); Smith, Cat. 



Noct. N. Am. p. 234. 

 Mamesti-a suhapicalis, Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 462 (1887). 



(5 . Head and thorax ferruginous red slightly mixed with grey ; 

 frons with blackish bar ; tegulao with slight medial black line ; 

 patagia with some black scales near edges ; dorsal crests tipped 

 with black ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen pale ferruginous 

 mixed with grey. Fore wing grey, almost entirely suffused with 

 ferruginous red and irrorated with white, the veins streaked with 

 black and white ; a double, waved, black subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold ; a double antemedial line, oblique from costa to 

 submedian fold, angled inwai'ds above vein 1 and outwards above 

 inner margin ; claviform moderate, defined by black ; orbicular and 

 reniform defined by black, large, the former erect elliptical, with 

 whitish centre, the latter rufous with some black on lower part, 

 open above and on outer side ; traces of a waved medial shade ; 

 postmedial line double, waved, bent outwards below costa, slightly 

 incurved at discal fold and strongly below vein 4, some white points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line pale, defined by rufous and 

 some black on inner side, the area beyond it fuscous irrorated with 

 white and with grey apical patch, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 slightly excurved at middle ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules ; cilia fuscous and pale rufous. Hind wing white with 

 some terminal black striae ; the underside with the costal area 

 irrorated with brown, a black discoidal spot and postmedial series 

 of short streaks on the veins. 



Hah. TJ.S.A., "Washington, 1 c? type, Oregon, Portland, Colorado, 

 California. Exp. 46 millim. 



Larva. Dyar. Can. Ent. xxvi. p. 67 (18'.)4). 



Head whitit^h, with brown reticulations and streaks on the sides ; 

 tubercles black. Body pale brown or partly greenish, brown-dotted. 

 Dorsal line narrow, white, black-edged, subdorsal line similar ; 

 lateral area black-shaded ; stigmatal band broad, dull-red filled, 

 bordered with white. Food-plant, Wild Gooseberry. — II. G. D, 



Sfxt. IV. Antenna; of male ciliated. 



A. Fore wing with the reniform not angled inwards on median 

 nervure and confluont witli the orbicular. 

 a. Fore wing witli black streak below base of cell. 



a'. Fore wing with the postmedial line almost obsolete . conRpicillaris. 

 b\ Fore wing with the postmedial line well developed... ^)«/t7if//fl. 



