78 REVISION OF XYLOMIGES AND MORRISONIA——SMITH. 
rounded, upright, ringed with black. A square blackish mark connects — 
the claviform with the t. a. line. Reniform moderate, stained with red- 
dish or ocherous, annulate with white and with an outer incomplete 
black ring. TT. p. line denticulate opposite cell, with a wider submedian 
inward lunulation, pale gray, with faint inner black line, followed by a 
narrow blackish shade, widening on costa in subterminal space. Sub- 
terminal space whitish gray, with a squarish black dash on submedian 
fold before the line, which is near the margin, angulate, cut with black 
fine streaklets. The narrow terminal space is blackish, with a black in- 
terrupted terminal line; fringes blackish gray. Outer margin retreat- 
ing to internal angle below vein 2. Secondaries whitish, with black 
discal dot, powdered with blackish or fuscous externally, and narrow, 
mesial, waved line, accentuated on veins. A distinet black terminal 
line; fringes white. Beneath, whitish; forewings somewhat fuscous; 
discal dots and faint, common, accentuated extradiscal line. 
Expansion, 36 millimetres; Centre, N. Y., June (W. W. Hill, Esq.).” 
I have seen the type of this species in Mr. Hill’s collection, and it 
seemed to me a Mamestra, allied to M. gnata. It will, however, require 
a male to settle the matter positively and I leave the species in its 
present position awaiting further light. 
MORRISONIA Gri. 
1874. Grt., Buff. Bull., 0, 53. 
Eyes hairy; front smooth, with short stiff vestiture forming more or 
less obvious superimposed frontal tufts; tongue long and strong; palpi 
moderate, reaching the front and sometimes to its middle; antenne of 
male pectinated, serrate and bristled, or simply ciliated. The thorax 
is rather short, quadrate, the vestiture consisting of flattened hair and 
scales; the patagic are well defined; a central divided crest is usually 
prominent anteriorly, less defined posteriorly. Abdomen with dorsal 
tufts, distinct in all save bisulca, and obvious even here. Legs unarmed, 
normally constructed. Primaries elongate, narrow with oblique outer 
margin and somewhat retreating hind angle, scarcely marked in bisulea 
but distinct in all the others. Secondaries proportionate. 
The genitalia of the male in the majority of the species are after one 
type. The harpes are long, with an enlarged, trigonate tip, furnished 
with spinules inwardly, clasper simple, formed of one or two curved 
claw or hook-iike processes. The differences between the species will 
be best explained by the figures. 
The species have a ayliniform habitus, and come, structurally, near 
to Xylomiges, trom which they differ in the divided thoracic crest, more 
evident dorsal abdominal tuftings and longer abdomen. 
The strigate confused maculation is characteristic of the species thus 
far known. 
As [regard this genus at present, it contains the species described 
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