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irrorated with grey ; tegulaB with fuscous and grey medial line ; 

 abdomen grey-brown, the anal tuft more ochreous brown. Pore 

 wing grey-broAvn suflFused with purplish red and with slight dark 

 irroration ; the costal area greyish to near apex ; a prominent black 

 streak below base of cell ; the subbasal line represented by slight 

 striffi from costa and cell ; the antemedial line arising as double 

 strise from costa, then indistinct and highly dentate ; claviform 

 small, defined by black, sometimes nearly obsolete ; orbicular and 

 reniform small, greyish defined by black, the former elongate, the 



Fig. 103. — Pcrsccfauia atristriga, (J . \. 



latter angled inwards on median nervure and with some fuscous in 

 lower part; postmedial line arising from double striae from costa, 

 then indistinct, dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique and strongly 

 angled inwards in submedian fold ; subterrainal line represented by 

 a series of small ochreous and fuscous dentate marks, slightly angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of 

 black points. Hind wing fuscous brown, with the cilia rufous; the 

 underside pale irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal spot and 

 curved postmedial line. 



Hah. New Zealand (.7. J. Walher), 3 c? , 1 2 , Auckland, {Oxlen) 

 2 d type, (Eiij/s) 1 $ , Otago (Huiton), 1 c? , Marlborough {Skellon), 

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Genus XYLOMANIA, nov. 



Type, X. hkmalis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect to just beyond frons, the 2nd joint 

 fringed with hair below, the 3rd short ; frons suiooth ; eyes large, rounded ; 

 tegulaj dorsally produced into a slight ridge ; pro- and metathoras with 

 spreading crests; pectus clothed with woolly hair; tibite fringed with hair ; 

 abdomen with dorsal crest on basal segment. Fore wing with the apex slightly 

 produced, the termen oblique and somewhat angled at vein 3 ; veins 3 and 5 

 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 and (5, 7 shortly 

 stalked ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 8 anastomosing with tlie 

 cell near base. 



Sect. I. Antenna of male bipectinate, with rather long branches, the apex 

 simple. 



A. Fore wing with the oi-bicular and reniform confluent... bchrcnsiana. 



B. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform separate. 



ft. Fore wmg without black streak belort' base of cell erythrolita. 



h. Fore wing with black streak below base of cell hiemalis. 



