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This species is very inconspicuously marked, the lines of a more 

 brown tone than the wing and all the markings of the genus are 

 present. From imilta it differs by the lunulate t. p. line, and the 

 concolorousness of the lines and stigmatal rings, as well as by the 

 erect, not oblique position of the ordinary spots. 



Xylomig^es crucialis, n. s. 



$ 2 . — Palpi, short, eyes hairy, antennae strongly pectinate, the thorax and 

 primaries whitish gray, a well marked black collar, the thoracic vestiture at the 

 base of the wing margined with black, a black basal streak. The transverse 

 lines are broken, black, running diagonally across the wing. From the apex 

 an interrupted black shade extends across the t. p. line to the t. a. line giving 

 the appearance of a cross. The reniform and orbicular spots are obsolete, 

 the former with a central carneoiis shade, well defined black points at the ter- 

 mination of the nervules. Beneath of a paler gray, an angular brown mark 

 at the costa, carneous shadings svirrounding it, brown points at the termina- 

 tion of the nervules, near the base the costa is distinctly marked with brown. 

 The secondaries are white with the discal sjjot and terminal lines present, 

 broken. Beneath there is a brown shading on the costa and the s])ot and lines 

 as above, fringes white. The species resembles curialis in the white seconda- 

 ries and hiemcdis in the marking and color of the primaries. 



Krpcaise, 30 m. m. Ily. Edwards, 5575, California. 



Annaphila mera, n. s. 



Palpi with the third article black. Primaries brownish black; the t. a. line 

 geminate, convex and shaded light inwardly. The t. p. line rounded out- 

 wardly opposite the stigmata; a dark, nearly black median shade line, near 

 the lower portion a line unites the t. a. and t. p. lines, the subterminal line 

 faintly marked. The reniform has a light annuhis, the orbicular spot light 

 in color, oblique, fringes concolorous. Beneath the wing is of a- bright 

 yellow, with a dark broad margin, nearly black; at the center are two sub- 

 quadrate spots of a deep black, the t. p. line is observed at the costa outside 

 of the spots, the costa is darkly shaded near the base of the wing. At the 

 inferior border the yellow fades nearly out and the line of demarcation is 

 nearly black. 



Secondaries of a darker yellow, black discal spots, broad uneven brown 

 border, below of a grayish yellow, the discal spot faint, the border daric and 

 even. 



Expanse, 23 m. m. Ihib., California. 



