XYLOMANIA. 390 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; Fkance, Sand Coll. ; Germany, Zeller 

 and Frey Colls. ; Austria, Leech Coll. ; Italy, North and Central; 

 Sweden; Russia, Livonia, Z^Jer Coll.; Armenia; Asia Minor, 

 Pontus, Taurus ; Kurdistan ; W. Turkestan, Sarawschan ; AY. 

 Siberia, Altai. Exp. 38-42 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 83 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 143, pi. 152. f. 3.": 

 Greenish ochreous freckled Avith fuscous, forminp; darker dorsal 

 blotches ; dorsal and subdorsal lines obscurely dark-edged ; spira- 

 cular line pale reddish ochreous with dark edge above ; head pale 

 pinkish ochreous with black markings. Food-plants : Lotus, Poly- 

 gonum, etc. 6-8. 



1717. Xylomania pulchella. (Plate LXXXIX. fig. 20.) 



Xylomiqcs ■pulchella. Smith, Trans. Am. Eiit. Soc. xxi. p. 81, pi. v. f. 2 

 ■(1894) ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 158. 



Head and thorax brownish grey ; frons with blackish bar ; 

 tegulse with traces of black medial line and sometimes black tips ; 

 patagia incompletely edged with black ; abdomen pale brown 

 irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing white, sparsely irrorated with 

 black ; the antemedial, postmedial, and terminal areas except at 

 apex suffused with black ; a black streak below base of cell ; a 

 double, waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a double, 

 waved antemedial line ; claviform moderate, defined by black, or 

 almost obsolete ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the 

 former pure white, oblique elliptical, the latter with whitish 

 annulus suffused with rufous, extending to postmedial line and with 

 some black in its lower part ; traces of a waved medial line ; 

 postmedial line waved, defined by grey on outer-side, bent outwards 

 below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold and strongly below vein 

 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line white, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and slightly incurved at submedian fold ; 

 an apical grey patch ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; 

 cilia fuscous intersected with white. Hind wing white, with some 

 dark irroration on veins and inner and terminal areas ; the under- 

 side with the costal area irrorated with black, a black discoidal spot 

 and minutely waved postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada, Vancouver I. (TF. H. Danhy), 6 (S , 2 5 . Exp, 

 40 millim. 



1718. Xylomania bella. (Plate LXXXIX. fig. 21.) 



Xylomyges hella, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 175, 



Head and thorax ochreous ; frons with black bar ; tegulae 

 whitish at base, with black medial line and rufous tips ; tarsi 

 banded with black ; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing white 

 irrorated with ochreous and dark brown ; subbasal line indistinct, 

 double, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 oblique, from costa to submedian fold, angled inwards on vein 1 

 and outwards above inner margin ; the medial area except below 

 submedian fold suffused with dark brown, becoming black towards 



