390 N0CTUIDJ3. 



703. Xylomania behrensiana. (Plate LXXXIX. lig. 10.) 



Graphiphora behreimana, Grote, Can. Eat. vii. p. 71 (1875) ; Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 208. 



2 . Head and thorax dull brown mixed with grey ; abdomen 

 brownish white irroratcd with dark brown. Fore wing brownish 

 grey, sufl'used with brown to the subtenuinal line and thickly 

 irrorated and striated Avith black-brown ; the costal edge pale ; 

 subbasal line blackish, defined by pale colour on outer side, waved, 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line defined by whitish 

 on inner side, oblic^ue from costa to above inner margin, then angled 

 inwards ; orbicular and renit'orm defined by whitish, confluent and 

 forming a celt-shaped mark ; postmedial lino double filled in with 

 whitish, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold, 

 incurved below vein 4 ; the veins of terminal half streaked with 

 wliitish ; subterminal line whitish, excurved below costa and at 

 middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pinkish 

 white with slight dark irroration, especially on marginal areas ; the 

 underside with small black discoidal spot, curved postmedial series 

 of points on the veins and terminal series. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, 1 $ type. Exp. 40 millim. 



1704. Xylomania erythrolita. (Plate LXXXIX. fig. 11.) 



Graphiphora erythrolita, Grote, Can. Ent. si. p. 208 (1879); Smith, Cat. 

 Noet. N. Am. p. 208. 



Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with dark brown ; shaft 

 of antennae crimson in male ; palpi tinged with crimson ; tarsi with 

 pale rings ; abdomen grey mixed with fuscous. Fore wing purplish 

 grey irrorated with dark brown, esjjecially on basal half: subbasal 

 and antemedial lines represented by slight dark spots on costa ; 

 orbicular and reniform dark with greyish annuli, the former small, 

 round, the latter obliquely curved ; traces of an oblique medial 

 line from cell to inner margin ; postmedial line indistinct, produced 

 to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, incurved at 

 discal fold and below vein 4; subterminal line indistinct, interrupted, 

 whitish defined by brown on inner side, prominently towards costa 

 and inner margin, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; a terminal series of brown striae. Hind wing grey sufl'used 

 with brown, especially on terminal area; the underside grey 

 irrorated with bjowu, a dark discoidal spot and curved postmedial 

 series of points on the veins. 



Ab. 1 Much more rufous in colour. 



llab. U.S.A., California, 5 (5", 1 ? , type. Exp. 34 millim. 



1705. Xylomania hiemalis. 



Xi/hmiges hiemalis, Grote, Bull. Buff. Sec. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 71 (1874) ; 



'Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 2;{3. 

 Bryohofa calif ormca, Behr. Streck. I^ep. Rhop. & Het. p. 94 (1874). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with brown and black ; frons with 



