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fringes. Olaviforui small, connected with t. p. line by a distinct black 

 shade. An indefinite dark median shade. Ordinary spots, somewhat 

 paler, indistinctly ontlined. Orbicular oblique, elongate, reniform up- 

 right. Secondaries smoky fuscous, paler towards base. Beneath with 

 carmine powderiugsj an indefinite dusky common line and discal 

 spot. Head and thorax deep brown, collar and patagiae with darker 

 lines. 



Expands 38 millimetres, 1.50 iucfics. 



Habitat. — California. 



A single $ specimen in collection of U. S. i^Tational Museum, from the 

 Eiley Collection. 



Xylophasia relicina Morr. 



1874. Morr., Pr. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii, 216 Hadena. 

 188-2. Grt., List 1882, Luceria. 



" Expanse 40 millimetres. Length of body 22 millimetres. 



" Eyes naked. Tlie antennjB of the male witli fine hairy clothing. 

 The palpi and front as usual in the genus. The collar and pterygodes 

 black, the former with a distinct transverse black line; behind the collar 

 a low longitudinally furrowed tuft. The abdomen with short tufts on 

 the first three segments. Ground color of the anterior wings light gray, 

 variegated with darker gray and black ; a distinct basal dash, and be- 

 neath the submediau nervure another similar dash; the median lines 

 black, single, and strongly dentate; the interior line forming two con- 

 spicuous teeth on the costa, the lower one touching the orbicular spot; 

 to the lobe between the median and submediau uervures the strongly 

 marked black-lined claviform spot is attached, and extends to the ex- 

 terior line; beneath the submediau nervure the lines are again connected 

 by a long, sharp tooth ; the exterior line is intercepted on the costa 

 above the reniform spot; below its teeth are short and regular, but it 

 furms one very sharp inward indentation, reaching the reniform spot; 

 the ordinary spots concolorous, with black annuli ; the orbicular oblique, 

 the reniform upright, with its annul us outwardly obsolete; the terminal 

 portions of the nervules tinged with black ; the subterminal line whitish, 

 very jagged, marked chiefly by the contrast between the light subter- 

 minal and the dark terminal spaces ; a series of triangular dots at the 

 base of the fringe, which is dark, intersected with light. The posterior 

 wings white, with a very faint terminal border, and a black line at the 

 base of the concolorous fringe. Beneath whitish, the anterior wings 

 with a discal dot and median line. 



" Habitat.— Waco, Texas. 



"This beautiful and distinct species belongs to the section Xylopha- 

 sia^ and is related to E. lignicolor, but the markings are more acute, 

 and the ground color is gray, without brown or ochreous admixture." 



Mr. Grote referred this species to Luceria; why, I can not see. A 

 single 5 only is before me, but from that I should have no hesitation 

 in referring it to this series. The strongly dentate median lines are 

 characteristic and thus far unique in the genus. 



