XYLOMYGES. 271 



Genus XYLOMYGES. 



Type. 



Xylomyges, Guen. Noct. i. p. 147 (1852) eridania. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 middle of frons and moderately fringed with hair, the 3rd short; frons smooth 

 and smoothly scaled, with a slight corneous plate below it; eyes large, round; 

 antennas of male ciliated ; thorax clothed chiefly with scales and with double 

 ridge-like dorsal crest ; tibiae fringed with rather long hair; abdomen wit li 

 dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen 

 evenly curved, crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; (i from upper 

 angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of 

 dtscocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



A. Fore wing with the subterminal line oblique from termen 



below vein 4 to postraedial line at submedian fold. 



a. Fore wing prominently streaked with brown, the oblique 

 part of subterminal line below vein 4 denned by white 

 below eridania. 



h. Fore wing much more uniform in colour, the oblique part 

 of subterminal line below vein 4 not defined by white 

 below peruviana, 



B. Fore wing with the subterminal line much less oblique 



between veins 4 and 2 and well separated from termen and 

 postmedial line ochrea. 



C. Fore wing with the subterminal line oblique from termen at 



vein 4 to submedian fold and dentate on veins 3 and 2 sunia. 



3883. Xylomyges eridania. 



Noctua eridania, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 133, pi. 358. ff. E, F (1782) ; 



Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxx. p. 36, pi. 3. ff. 2. 2a ; Smith, Cat. Noct. X.Am. 



p. 169. 

 Noctua linea, Fabr. Ent. Syst. 3. 2. p. 106 (1794). 



Phaleena pkytolaccee, Smith & Abbot, Ins. Georgia, ii. p. 193, pi. 97 (1797). 

 Xylomyges pulrida, Guen. Noct. i. p. 148 (1852). 

 Xylomyges amygia, Guen. Noct. i. p. 149 (1852). 

 Leucania externa, Wlk. ix. 114 (1856). 

 Xylina inquieta, Wlk. xi. 632 (1857'. 

 Xylina bipunctata, Wlk. xi. (529 (1857). 

 Prodenia strigifera, Wlk. xv. 1678 (1858). 

 Actinotia derupta, Morr. Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, p. 62. 

 Prodenia ignobilis, Butl. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 485. 

 Leucania nigrofascia, Hulst, Bull. Brooklyn, Ent. Soc. iii. p. 77 (1881), A: iv. 



p. 7. pi. l.f.'O. 

 ('"/Herges recondita, Moschl. Abb. Senck. Ges. xvi. p. 140(1890). 

 Laphygma orbicularis, Bruce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 267 (nee Wlk.). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous ; palpi 

 white in front and with brown and rufous marks at side of 2nd 

 joint ; tarsi brownish ringed with white. Fore wing ochreous 

 white tinged with rufous and sparsely irrorated with black 

 especially on inner area, the veins of terminal area slightly streaked 

 with black ; a slight oblique blackish streak above inner margin 

 before the antemedial Hit', which is represented by a black point 



