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Xylina scnlpta, Qrote, Plate 3, fig. 1 $ . 



t, 2 . — Eyes naked ; middle and Mnd tibia spinose ; frontal tuft very short, 

 improminent, not projectedly bifid, as in tlie typical species Xylina Bethunei, 

 Grote and Xylina signosa, Walker.^ Thorax squared, with the shoulders well 

 defined ; abdomen flattened ; gray, shaded with blackish, with distinct orna- 

 mentation ; a basal linear black dash ; transverse lines geminate and much 

 as in Xylina capax, G. & R., which this species strongly resembles ; t. a. line, 

 with the outer component line best expressed, dentate below costa, running 

 obliquely outwardly in its general course, acuminate on submedian fold where 

 it is connected by blackish scales with an acute inward inflection of the t. p. 

 line at this place, inwardly dentate on vein 1 ; orbicular sometimes not defined 

 against the ground of the wing ; median shade blackish, diff"use ; reniform of 

 the usual kidney-shape; t. p. line well projected, interspaceally lunulate, its 

 inner line most distinct and marking outwardly the veins at the point between 

 the lunulations ; subterminal line irregular, preceded by difl"use blackish 

 shadings and irregular cuneiform iuterspaceal marks ; sometimes vein 2 is 

 accentuated, but there is no continuation of the streak on median space on the 

 submedian fold beyond the t. p. line; terminal interspaceally dentate line 

 marked by black points. Hind wings rather pale, powdery, with an indistinct 

 continued median dentate line, discal dot and subterminal shade, better ex- 

 pressed in $ , and a distinct black terminal line interrupted by the veins. 

 Beneath the primaries are dark, with the subterminal line indicated by con- 

 trast with the paler terminal space, exterior line indicated on costal region ; 

 hind wings pale with the dot, dentate and terminal lines of the upper surface 

 repeated. 



Ex^yanse, 40 m. m. 



HaUtat, Philadelphia (C. A. Blake, Number 43); New York 

 (Theo. L. Mead, Number 119). 



Smaller thau X. capax, and with the reniform more kidney- 

 shaped ; more purely gray and black, less pui-plish and dark. 



Calpe Canadensis, Betliune. 



Plusiodonta? purpiirascens , Walker. 

 Oraesia sobria, Walker. 



Habitat, Canada ; New York. 



I regret that in our notes on the N. Am. Lepidoptera contained 

 in the British Museum, Mr. Eobinson and myself have erroneously 

 considered Mr. Walker's descriptions of this species as earlier. The 



6 Mr. Walker's descriptions in this genus are almost useless ; I have identified his Xylina 

 contrana as a redescription of Hyppa xylinoides. 



