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ochreous suffused with rufous, the innei' area darker, the lower part 

 of cell and area just below it grey-white ; a strong black streak 

 below lower part of cell ; antemedial line double, indistinct on 

 costal half, then more prominent, very strongly angled outwards in 

 the interspaces, especially above inner margin, and inwards on the 

 veins, in cell almost to base, some black scales on its inner edge on 

 costal half; claviform lepresented by two black streaks between 

 ante- and ])ostmedial lines ; orbicular very indistinct, oblique, 

 irregular, defined by some black scales and with two brown marks 

 in centre ; reniform narrow and constricted at middle, Avith whitish 

 centre defined by rufous and ochreous annulus incompletely defined 

 by black, some rufous suftusion beyond it ; postmedial line very 

 indistinct, strongly and irregularly dentate and produced to black 

 points on its veins, bent outwards below costa, strongly incurved 

 in discal fold and strongly bidentate inwards in submedian inter- 

 space, some white points beyond it on costa ; a black streak above 

 vein 4 to the subterminal line, which is ochreous, angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and dentate to termen on veins 4, 3, cilia dark brown. 

 Hind wing pale rufous sufl^used with fuscous excejjt on basal and 

 inner areas ; cilia pale rufous ; the underside ochreous suffused with 

 rufous, the veins irrorated with fuscous ; a black discoidal lonule 

 and a somewhat dentate fuscous postmedial line, excurved below 

 costa, then oblique, some slight lunules on termen. 



Hah. Canada, Hudson's Bay (Barmto7i), 1 (j" , E. Canada 

 (Norman), 1 $, Orillia (Bush),"! $, Alberta, Calgary (Wonei/- 

 Dod), 1 c? ; U.S.A., South to Distr. Columbia and West to Ne- 

 braska, Massachusetts, Newton {Thaxter), 2 5 . Exp. 60-66 miUim. 



Larva. Head green. Pody brilliant apple-green, more rarely 

 brown, lighter intersegmentally. Stigmatal band narrow, black 

 above, greenish white below. Tubercles white ; spiracles orange ; 

 thoracic feet reddish, the abdominal ones green. — H. G. D. 



2445. Xylina vetusta. 



JS^octiia vciuiia, Hiibu. Eur. Schraett., Noct. f. 459 (1827) ; Dup. Lep. Fi\ 

 vii. p. 159, pi. cxi. f. 1 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 174 ; Stand. 

 Cat. Lep. pal. p. 211. 



Head and base of tegulae and shoulders ochreous tinged with 

 rufous ; palpi and lower part of irons deep rufous ; the rest of 

 thorax deep purple-brown, some rufous lines on base of teguljT) and 

 a black medial line ; the scales near upper edge of patagia and the 

 metathoracic crest blackish ; pectus and legs ochreous and rufous ; 

 abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous, the ventral surface rufous. 

 Pore wing ochreous tinged with rufous or grey-white, the inner 

 half suffused with purplish rufous ; antemedial line double, in- 

 distinct on costal half, very highly angled outwards in the inter- 

 spaces and inwards on the veins ; claviform represented by a patch 

 of dark suffusion ; orbicular represented by two or three obliquely- 

 placed points with traces of a waved line round their outer side ; 



