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sharp ti-i.ini^iilai' ridge-like crest, the nietathorax with div^ided crest; tibi.v, 

 fringed with long hair ; abdomen witli dorsal crest at base only. Foro wing 

 with the apex somewhat produced and acute, the terinen nearly straight to 

 vein 3, then oblique and hardly creaulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of 

 cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to Conn the areole ; 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 8, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent 

 from below middle of discocellulars ; (>, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell near base only. 



■•<is. 



A. Fore wing purplish-red huffalocn. 



B. Fore wing yellow jlavago. 



4328. Xanthcecia buffaloensis. (Plate CXXXVII. fig. 25.) 



Ochria hufaloensis, Grote, Can. Ent. is. p. 88 (ISTT) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am." p. I7V>. 



2 . Head and thorax deep purplish red, the scales tipped with 

 grey ; abdomen paler purplish red. Fore wing purplish red, the 

 ante- and postmedial areas more purple ; the veius with dark 

 streaks; subbasal line double, waved, from costa to submedian fold; 

 antemedial line double, waved, angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular 

 white tinged with yellow and dotined by rufous, small, elliptical ; 

 reuiform white tinged with yellow aud defined by rufous, its centre 

 with sinuous yellow line defined by red, its lower extremity broken 

 up into spots by streaks on the veins, narrow and constricted at 

 middle ; medial line oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then 

 sinuous ; postmedial line double, the outer line purplish fuscous, 

 bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 6, some pale 

 points beyond it on costa; subterminal line brown, angled outwards 

 at vein 6, dentate at veins 4, 3, 2 ; a terminal series of slight 

 brown strite ; cilia brown with a few whitish scales and slight red 

 line at base. Hind wing ochreous suffused with brown and 

 purplish red except at base ; an indistinct brown postmedial line ; 

 a slight rufous terminal line ; the underside yellowish suffused 

 with rufous, a slight brown discoidal lunule and nearly straight 

 postmedial line. 



Bah. U.S.A., Xew York, Buffalo (Miss M. Walk-er), 1 2 type. 

 Eajj. 46 millim, 



43:29. Xanthcecia flavago. 



IS'odua flamgo, wSchiff. Wien. Verz. p. 86 (177(V); Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 112. 



ff. 2-4 (17S8) ; Huba. Eur. Schmett., Noct. tf. 18(5-7; Dup. Ltip. Fr. vii. 



p. 252, pi. 1 it5. f. 2 ; Fr)-. Neue Beitr. pi. 484 ; Sepp, Ins. i. pt. 4, pi. iii, ; 



Steph. ill. Brit. Ent., Haust. lii. p. 70. 

 I\octu(i ochracea, Hiibn. Beitr. i. 1, p. lU, pi. 2. f. M (1786); Stand. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 187. 

 Gurtyna ciiiurca, Gooss. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 18S0, p. 157. 



Head and thorax rufous mixed willi brown and grey, the base of 

 te^uliE rather redder ; abdomen yellow suffused with rufous. Fore 

 wing yellow irrorated with red, the ante- and postmedial areas 



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