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whitish irrorated with pale fuscous brown ; a fine black streak 

 below base of cell ; an oblique black striga across cell before the 

 antemedial line, which is represented by a fuscous striga from 

 costa and an angle above inner margin ; claviform moderate, 

 delined b)- black ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the 

 former oblique elliptical, the latter angled inwards on median 

 nervure and confluent or nearly confluent with the former; post- 

 medial line indistinct or almost obsolete, minutely waved, bent 

 outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold and strongly below 

 vein 4 ; subterminal line only defined by some small dentate black 

 marks on its inner side and some fuscous suffusion on costa, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and slightly excurved at middle ; a terminal 

 series of black points. Hind wing white, the veins and marginal 

 areas suffused with reddish brown in male, wholly suffused in 

 female ; the underside irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot 

 and sinuous postmedial line. 



Huh. Canada, Vancouver ; U.S.A., California ( Walsinr/Jiam), 1 cT , 

 1 5 , Sanzalito, 3 cJ , 1 2 type. /vc^;. 39 millim. 



1721. Xylomania norma. (Plate LXXXIX. fig. 24.) 

 Bianthoecia norma, Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 305, f. 245 (1891). 



cJ . Head and thorax ochreous, tinged with rufous and mixed 

 with some black ; teguliE with black line near upper edge ; abdomen 

 ochreous, tinged with rufous and irrorated with black. Fore wing 

 greyish white, suffused in parts with rufous and irrorated with 

 fuscous ; a rather wedge-shaped black mark below base of cell with 

 short streak beyond it ; subbasal line represented by a black point 

 on costa ; antemedial line waved, angled at submediau fold ; clavi- 

 form small, whitish tinged with rod and defined l)y black; orbicular 

 and reniform whitish tinged with red and incomplerely defined by 

 black, the former very elongate elliptical and running into lower 

 angle of cell, with a blackish spot in upper extremity, the latter 

 narrow, its upper extremity produced and its lower retracted into 

 a streak on median nervure running below the orbicular ; post- 

 medial line highly dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then oblique : a slight dark triangular shade on costa 

 towards apex ; the terminal area dark, arising from termen just 

 below apex and interrupted by a dentate whitish mark on vein 4, 

 some short black streaks on its inner edge and some black points on 

 termen ; cilia pale rufous intersected with yellow. Hind wing 

 fuscous brown ; cilia whitish tinged with rufous ; the underside 

 whitish irrorated with black, a discoidal lunulc, sinuous post- 

 medial line, and terminal series of small spots. 



Hah. Madagascar, Betsileo (Cowan), 1 cS • Exj^. 22 millim. 



1722. Xylomania natalensis. (Plate LXXXIX. fig. 25.) 

 Apamea natalensis, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xvi. p. 403 (1875). 

 5 . Head and thorax brownish white, slightly mixed with, 



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