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Xylina seulpta, Grote, Plate 3, fig. 19. 
é 9.—Eyes naked; middle and hind tibia spinose; frontal tuft very short, 
improminent, not projectedly bifid, as in the typical species Xylina Bethune, 
Grote and Xylina signosa, Walker.® Thorax squared, with the shoulders well 
defined ; abdomen flattened; gray, shaded with blackish, with distinct orna- 
mentation; a basal linear black dash; transverse lines geminate and much 
as in Xylina capax, G. & #&., which this species strongly resembles; t. a. line, 
with the outer component line best expressed, dentate below costa, running 
obliquely outwardly in its general course, acuminate on submedian fold where 
it is connected by blackish scales with an acute inward inflection of the t. p. 
line at this place, inwardly dentate on vein 1; orbicular sometimes not defined 
against the ground of the wing; median shade blackish, diffuse ; reniform of 
the usual kidney-shape; t. p. line well projected, interspaceally lunulate, its 
inner line most distinct and marking outwardly the veins at the point between 
the lunulations; subterminal line irregular, preceded by diffuse blackish 
shadings and irregular cuneiform interspaceal marks; sometimes vein 2 is 
accentuated, but there is no continuation of the streak on median space on the 
submedian fold beyond the t. p. line; terminal interspaceally dentate line 
marked by black points. Hind wings rather pale, powdery, with an indistinct 
continued median dentate line, discal dot and subterminal shade, better ex- 
pressed in ¢, and a distinct black terminal line interrupted by the veins. 
Beneath the primaries are dark, with the subterminal line indicated by con- 
trast with the paler terminal space, exterior line indicated on costal region ; 
hind wings pale with the dot, dentate and terminal lines of the upper surface 
repeated, 
Hxpanse, 40 m. m. 
Habitat, Philadelphia (C. A. Blake, Number 42); New York 
(Theo. L. Mead, Number 119). 
Smaller than X. capax, and with the reniform more kidney- 
shaped; more purely gray and black, less purplish and dark. 
Calpe Canadensis, Bethune. 
Plusiodonta? purpurascens, Walker. 
Oraesia sobria, Walker. 
Habitat, Canada; New York. 
I regret that in our notes on the N. Am. Lepidoptera contained 
in the British Museum, Mr. Robinson and myself have erroneously 
considered Mr. Walker’s descriptions of this species as earlier. The 

6 Mr. Walker’s descriptions in this genus are almost useless; I haye identified his Xylina 
contraria as a redescription of Hyppa xylinoides. 
