210 NOCTUID^E. 



submedian fold ; a terminal series of blackish lunules ; cilia red- 

 brown with a fine pale line at base. Hind wing ocbreous white 

 suffused with red-brown especially on terminal half ; cilia white 

 with a dark line through them from apex to vein 2 ; the underside 

 white, the costal area irrorated with brown, the terminal area 

 suffused with red-brown, a dark discoidal lunule and diffused 

 sinuous postmedial line. 



Bab. Britain, Scotland, Leech Coll., England, Leeeh Coll. ; 

 France ; Germany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. : Austria ; 

 Hungary; Switzerland; N". Italy; Russia, Livonia, Zeller Coll., 

 St. Petersburg, Zeller Coll., Urals ; W. Siberia, Altai ; E. Siberia, 

 Amur ; Alaska. Exp. 40-4(! millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 129 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit, v. p. 35. pi. 189. f. 1. 



Pale and dark brown mixed, laterally tinged with purple ; dorsal 

 line pale, interrupted, dark-edged ; subdorsal series of pale oblique 

 streaks, dark-edged behind ; spiracular line pale towards ex- 

 tremities ; 11th somite with two ochreous dots; head dark brown. 

 Food-plants : Salix and Rubus. 7-3. 



3822. Lithomoea xylinoides. (Plate CXXVIII. fig. 6.) 



Hadena xylinoides, Guen. Noet. ii. p. 106, pi. 8. f. 11 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. 



Noct. N. Am. p. 155; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 182. 

 Xylina contraria, Wlk. xi. 627 (1857). 

 Hadena ancocisconensis, Morr. Can. Ent. vii. p. 198 (1875). 



Head and thorax white mixed with brown ; palpi blackish at 

 sides; frons with black bar ; tegulaa with strong black medial line ; 

 patagia red-brown edged with black and fringed with white hair 

 above ; tarsi fuscous ringed with white ; abdomen grey-brown with 

 the dorsal crests blackish. Fore wing bluish white irrorated with 

 fuscous and more or less tinged with brown, the medial area 

 suffused with rufous from the cell and vein 3 to submedian fold, 

 the terminal area slightly tinged with brown towards apex and 

 tornus, the veins with slight dark streaks ; subbasal line repre- 

 sented by a black strigafrom costa, defined by white on outer side; 

 a sinuous black streak in base of submedian told and a streak above 

 inner margin before the antemedial line, which is black defined by 

 white on inner side, slightly angled outwards below costa and in 

 cell, strongly in submedian fold and above inner margin and 

 inwards on vein 1 ; a black streak in submedian fold from the 

 ante- to the postmedial lines; orbicular and reniform large defined 

 by black, the former elongate elliptical, rather acute at extremity ; 

 a slight medial fuscous shade from costa to median nervure; post- 

 medial line double filled in with white, indistinct on costal halt' 

 and with prominent white mark in submedian interspace, bent 

 outwards below costa, oblique to vein 5, then inwardly oblique and 

 slightly sinuous, some white points beyond it on costa; black 

 . streaks in the interspaces of terminal area between vein 7 and 

 .submedian fold interrupted by slight white lunules between veins 

 . 5 and 3 representing part of the white subterminal line, which is 



