XTLOITANIA. 



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black bar ; tegulag with black medial line ; tarsi ringed with black ; 

 abdomen pale reddish, ventrally mixed with grey. Fore wing 

 bluish grey irrorated with fuscous and black ; a waved black streak 

 below base of cell ; the subbasal line represented by an oblique 

 black striga from costa ; antemedial line oblique, waved ; claviform 

 well-developed, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform large, with 

 orange and black scales at centre and grey annuli defined by black, 

 the former irregularly rounded and open above ; postmedial line 

 double, indistinct, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line whitish, defined by dentate 

 black marks on inner side and by the area beyond it being darker, 

 running obliquely from apex, dentate at veins 4, 3, and incurved 



Fig. 104. — Xylomania hiemalis, J . 



at discal and submedian folds ; a terminal series of small black 

 hinules. Hind wing white, more or less strongly irrorated with 

 fuscous ; a terminal series of dark striae ; the underside with black 

 discoidal lunule and sinuous punctiform postmedial line showing 

 through on upperside. 



Hah. Canada, Vancouver I. (TF. H. Danhy), 3 cJ , 1 $ ; U.S.A., 

 California, Sanzalito, 1 J ; Oakland, 1 $ type. Exj). 34-38 

 millira. 



Sect. II. Anteunte of male with short branches, the apex simple, 



A. Fore wing with black streak below base of cell. 



a. Fore wing tinged with bluish, the black markings very 



prominent pallidior, 



b. Fore wing tinged with brownish periialis. 



B. Fore wing without black streak below base of cell cognata. 



*1706. Xylomania pallidior. (Plate LXXXIX. fig. 12.) 



Xylomiges pallidior. Smith, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. vii. p. 227 (1899) ; Djar, 

 Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 158. 



(S . Head and thorax bluish white mixed with some black, palpi 

 black at sides ; frons with black bar ; teguloe with black medial 

 line ; patagia with black streak on lower edge and some black 

 scales near upper edge ; tarsi with black rings ; pectus tinged with 

 pink ; abdomen whitish tinged with purplish pink and irrorated 

 with black. Fore wing bluish white irrorated with fuscous, the 

 base of inner margin tinged with pinkish ; a sinuous black line 

 below base of cell connected with the claviform, which is defined by 



