XYLOMCEA. — RTJACODES. 



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series of small black lunules ; cilia brown iutersccted with whitish. 

 Hind wing white faintly tinged with brown; traces of a discoidal 

 lunnle and curved postmedial line; the underside with the costal 



Fig. 147. — Xylomaa graminea, J. \. 



and terminal areas slightly irrorated with brown, a discoidal point 

 and postmedial series of minute points on the veins. 



llnb. E. Siberia, Ussuri, Raddefka, 1 J. Ex±j. 'M millim. 



Genus RUACODES, nov. 



Type, R. tela. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2ml joint fringed 

 with scales in front and reaching to about middle of f rons, the 3rd short, blunt ; 

 frons with truncate conical prominence with raised edges, flattened vertical 

 central process and corneous plate below it; eyes large, rounded; antennae of 

 female almost simple ; head and thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- 

 and metatliorax with spreading crests ; tibiae moderately fringed with hair ; 

 abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, 

 the termen evenly curved and moderately crenulate ; 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; 

 , r ) obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; (i, 7 shortly stalked; 8 anasto- 

 mosing with the cell near base only. 



4268. Ruacodes tela. 



Hadena tela, Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 470 (1900) ; Pyar, Cat. 

 Lep. N. Am. p. 115. 



2 . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey and some 

 black and tinged with olive ; patagia with strong black streak near 



Fig. 148.— Ruacodes tela, $. \. 



upper edge ; tarsi fuscous ringed with whitish ; abdomen grey- 

 brown tinged with olive at base, the basal crest darker. Pore wing 

 gtev thickly irrorated with fuscous and tinged with olive especially 

 on inner and terminal areas; subbasal line represented by two 



