394 



NOCTUIDJ;. 



median fold ; antemedial line double, waved, nearly erect ; clavi- 

 form slightly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform defined by 

 black, the former oblique elliptical, open above, grey or rufous 

 "with grey annulus, the laltcr rufous with grey anuulus ; postmediaL 

 line double, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, slightly 

 incurved at discal fold, incurved below veiu 4, some white points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish, sometimes finely 

 defined by black on inner side, the area be3'ond it dark except at 

 apex, where there is a grey patch, angled outwards at vein 7, then 

 nearly straight ; a terminal series of black lunules ; cilia grey 

 mixed with dark brown. Hind wing white, some brown irroration 

 on the veins and inner area; a terminal lunulate black line; the 

 underside with brown irroration on costal area, a black discoidal 

 lunule showing through to uppersidc, and a postmedial series of" 

 short streaks on the veins. 



Hah. U.S.A., Oregon, California, San Raphael, 1 5 type, Havilah, 

 1 $ . Exp. as millim. 



1710. Xylomania simplex. 



Acronycfa siniplex, Wlk. xxxii. 618 (18fi5) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 233. 

 Xylomiges crucialis, Harr. Bull. BiifT. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 277 (1875). 



Head and thorax white mixed with grey ; frons with black bar ; 

 tegulre with black medial line ; patagia edged with black ; tarsi 

 ringed with black ; abdomen grey tinged with rufous. Fore wing 

 white thickly irroratcd with fuscous ; a strong black streak below 

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

 striga from costa, tlie antemedial line by stria? from costa and inner 



Fig. 103. — Xylomania simplex , ^. \. 



margin ; claviform large, more or less completely defined by black ; 

 orbicular large, oblique, wedge-shaped, open above, defined by a 

 black patch or streak before it in cell, and the oblique medial black 

 shade beyond it from costa to median nervure ; reniform large, 

 rounded, with some orange at centre, an incomplete black outline 

 and a prominent semicircular black mark below it ; postmedial line 

 represented by a series of black stria) on the veins, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then strongly incurved, sub- 

 terminal line only defined by a series of short black streaks in the 

 interspaces beyond it, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; a terminal scries of black points ; cilia intersected with 

 black. Hind wing white, with series of black stria; on termcn ; the 



