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daries white, powdered with black, and with a narrow, dusky, terminal 
line. Beneath white, more or less black powdered, both wings with a 
more or less distinet broken outer line and discal spot. 
Expands 35-37 millimetres=1.40 to 1.50 inches. 
HABITAT: Sierra Nevada, Nevada County, Rafael County in May, 
California. 
A somewhat variable, but very distinet species. It is sometimes 
almost uniform in color, the black basal dash and distinet, pale s. t. 
line being the only prominent features. From this it varies to a form 
in which the ground color is paler, more gray, the ordinary spots 
sharply defined, the space between veins 3 and 4 black filled, margin- 
ing the reddish shade beyond reniform, which in turn extends to the 
creamy gray apical patch. 
The harpes of the male narrow abruptly to a long, curved tip. There 
are two claspers, one long and curved, extending parallel with the nar- 
rowed tip of the harpes, the other at the base of the first, small and 
stout, only slightly curved. 
The Nevada County specimens are in the U.S. National Museum 
(through C. V. Riley) and have a red number 330. 
The paler specimens have the Teaniocampa habitus most strongly 
marked. 
Xylomiges subapicalis Smith. 
1887. Smith, Proc. U. 8S. Nat. Mus., x, 462, Mamestra. 
Ground color rather dark ash gray, powdery. Head and collar con- 
colorous. Collar with a narrow white line, surmounted by a fringe of 
black seales at tip. Primaries sometimes with a reddish tinge in the 
basal space and beyond the reniform. Ordinary lines distinet, not 
prominent, geminate. T.a. line outwardly oblique, outeurved between 
the veins. T. p. line rather evenly bisinuate, the inner defining line lunu- 
late, the outer even. Basal line geminate, easily traceable, not promi- 
nent. A somewhat indistinct, even, median shade line. S. t. line pale, 
yellowish, prominent, somewhat sinuous, preceded by a rich, deep brown 
shade, emphasized with black above vein 4 and below vein 3. Clavi- 
form wide, concolorous, incompletely outlined in black. Orbicular 
upright, oval, white, narrowly biack-ringed, and with dusky central 
powderings. Reniform kidney-shaped, upright, large, inwardly black- 
ringed, inferiorly dusky, else with a pale, often reddish, shade which ex- 
tends outwardly to thes. t. line. This paler shade is inferiorly margined 
by a black filling between veins 3 and 4. Apical space more gray, ter- 
minal space else somewhat darker. A series of terminal lunules, fol- 
lowed by a pale line at base of fringes; the latter cut with yellowish. 
Secondaries white, somewhat black-powdered, with a punctiform exte- 
rior and lunate terminal dark line. Discal spot more or less obvious. 
Beneath white, black powdered. All wings with a distinet discal spot, 
a punctiform outer line and a series of terminal lunules. 
Expands 36 to 41 millimetres=1.45 to 1.65 inches. 
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