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points. 8S. t. line preceded by a deep reddish shade marked opposite 
the cell and again below vein 3. Terminal space blackish, with a gray 
apical patch. External margin dentate ; fringes cut with pale. Hind 
wings and fringes pure white; a broken terminal line; beneath with a 
dotted extra-mesial line and discal spot. Primaries beneath with the 
terminal space whitish; subterminal space stained with brownish; a 
discal mark very near the dotted extra-mesial line which hardly 
reaches the margin. Eyes hairy; tibie unarmed ; antenne brush-like; 
abdomen tufted at base. Wings elongate. Thorax and head reddish 
brown; collar edged with gray; abdomen pale reddish fuscous. Hix- 
panse 39 millimetres. Washington Territory. Collected by H. K. 
Morrison.” 
I have not satisfactorily identified this species, which may be one of 
the forms related to rubrica in the same way in which subapicalis is re- 
lated to it. It can not be the latter species from the description. 
[An examination of the type in the British Museum proves that it 
nevertheless is my subapicalis. | 
Xylomiges rubrica Harvey. 
1878. Harv., Can. Ent., x, 58, Graphiphora. 
1882. Grt., New Check List, 31, Xylomiges. 
1887. Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., x, 462, Mamestra. 
Ground color a rather pale reddish gray, powdery. Head and thorax 
concolorous, collar very narrowly dark tipped, lateral margin of pata- 
giz narrowly black edged. Primaries with the median and basal lines 
marked by geminate black spots on costa; but only feebly traceable 
for the remainder of their course. Sometimes: they are entirely obso- 
lete, more rarely distinct and easily visible. T. a. line evenly out- 
curved, somewhat lunate between the veins. T. p. line rather even, 
defining lines only slightly irregular. In course it is outcurved over 
reniform and quite evenly oblique below. A vague median shade, 
marked at costa and hind margin, and sometimes darkening the cell 
between the ordinary spots. S. t. line distinet, whitish, sharply de- 
fined, preceded by a variably broad, but always distinct, black shade. 
A prominent black streak at base, not reaching the t. a. line. Terminal 
space blackish, except at apex, which is pale, creamy gray, variably 
prominent according as the specimen is light or dark; the veins cross- 
ing the darker portion white marked. Claviform small, concolorous, 
more or less outlined in black. Orbicular oblique, oblong, more gray 
than ground color, well or even prominently outlined in black. Reni- 
form moderate, upright, centrally constricted on the outer margin, nar- 
rowly outlined in white, which is basally preceded by black. In color 
it is reddish, darkened inferiorly, the red shade extending outward to 
_ the s. t. line, sometimes defined inferiorly by a blackish shade between 
veins 3 and 4, A lunulate, black terminal line, followed by a pale line 
at base of fringes. The latter are dark, cut with creamy gray. Secon- 
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