436 ON SPECIES OF HADENA SMITH. 



Xylophasia cuculliformis Grt. 

 1875, Grt., Check List, 1875, 24, Eadena. 



Luteous brown, pale ; a dusky shade along internal margin, deepen- 

 ing outwardly to outer margin. A triangular dark brown sbade above 

 the W mark, its apex at t. p. line, gradually broader to outer margin. 

 T. a. line obsolete. T. p. line geminate, with a wide outward curve over 

 cell; continuous only at inception, then punctifonu to hind margin ; a 

 white dot separates the dusky spots, and in the darker submediau shade 

 takes the form of a narrow white line, crossing this shade. S. t. line 

 indefinite, only the W being at all well marked. The fringes are den- 

 tate, darker brown, cut with ground color. The ordinary spots are con- 

 colorous and very indefinite; orbicular elongate, decumbent, extending 

 to but not confluent with the reniform, which is moderate in size and 

 normal in form ; a blackish point marks its outer margin. The internal 

 margin is marked with white scales. Secondaries very pale yellowish, 

 semi-transparent, outwardly darker; beneath pale, with somewhat in- 

 definite outer line and discal spot. Head and collar ])aler; the latter 

 with a narrow black line. Thorax darker, the tuftings with a gray 

 shade. The tuftings of abdomen are dark, very equal, and extend to 

 the sixth segment. 



Expands 48 millimetres ; 1.G5 inches. 



Habitat.— California. 



Two $ specimens agree in all points, and are easily distinguished 

 from their congeners by the narrower wings, the outer margin dis- 

 tinctly dentate. The rather prominent tuftings and quadrate thorax 

 afibrd other distinctive features. 



Xylophasia cristata Grt. 

 1878, Grt., Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv., iv, 176, Eadena. 



'< $ Thorax ferruginous, strongly crested; body comparatively slender; 

 abdomen tufted ; size large. Fore wings dusky ochreous, with all the 

 markings dotted and fragmentary. Lines marked in black on costa. 

 Keniform barely indicated with a black central dot. T. p. line a double 

 series of black dots, the inner line represented by a white curved 

 streak crossing a dark shade on submediau fold, thus allying the moth 

 to cuculliformis and verbascoides. Terminally the wing is shaded 

 blackish, twice more prominently at the middle and at internal margin 

 across the narrow pale s. t. line. Fringes blackish, cut with ferrugi- 

 nous ochrey at end of veins. A fine ferruginous basal streak and in- 

 ternal margin shaded with rusty. Hind wings fuscous, with rusty- 

 ochre fringes and shaded with ochre along external margin. Beneath 

 pale ochre with rusty tinge ; on hind wings a waved medial line marked 

 in the veins, and a discal lunule. Primaries with lunule and straight 

 line double and angulate at costa. Expansion, 45 millimetres. Buflalo, 

 (A. R. Grote.)" 



