XYI.OMCF.A. 



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male ciliated ; thorax typically clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the pro- 

 and metathorax wiih spreading crests; tibhe moderately fringed with hair; 

 abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing rather narrow, the termen 

 crenulate, oblique towards tornus ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 6 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 just below middle of discocellulars ; <>, 7 shortly stalked or from angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Thorax clothed chiefly with scales. 



A. Fore wing dark cupreous brown Itstrina. 



B. Fore wing pale grey-brown didonea. 



4265. Xylomcea lsetrina. 



Apumea hetrina, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. -477, pi. 93. f. -1 

 (1898). 



Head and thorax brown mixed with greyish ; pro- and meta-' 

 thorax with paired black spots ; patagia with black spots at 

 middle and tips ; pectus grey ; tarsi blackish ringed with white ; 

 abdomen grey dorsally suffused with brown. 'Fore wing brown 

 v\ it-h a cupreous gloss ; subbasal line black, oblique, from costa to 

 vein 1, above which it is produced into a slight streak ; antemedial 



Fig. 146. — Xylunwa ketrina, J. \. 



line indistinct, slightly defined by greyish on inner side, angled 

 outwards below costa, then oblique, waved and angled inwards to 

 whitish points on the veins ; claviform narrow, pale brown slight!}' 

 defined by black ; orbicular pale red-brown with faint whitish 

 annulus defined by blackish, very oblique elliptical ; reniform 

 defined by blackish and with palo red-brown centre defined by 

 blackish, some whitish points on its annulus at upper and lower 

 edges ; postmedial line very indistinct, double, with some whitish 

 on it at costa, strongly bent outwards below costa, then strongly 

 dentate and produced to whitish points on the veins, very oblique 

 below vein 4; a diffused oblique whitish fascia from costa just 

 before apex to below vein 7 with black streaks from it to termen 

 above and below vein 7 ; a faint dentate whitish subterminal line ; 

 a terminal series of small black lunules defined on inner side by 

 slight whitish lunules ; cilia with fine pale line at base. Hind wing 

 cupreous brown with a slight dark (liscoidal spot ; cilia white 

 tinged with brown at tips ; the underside white irrorated with 

 brown, a black discoidal lunule, faint crenulate postmedial line 



