388 On netc Genera and Sjyecies of Noctuitljie. 



above toraiis; cilia white mixed with brown at base; the 

 underside white irrorated with brown, the base suffused with 

 brown, a large black discoidal spot, waved postmedial line 

 oblique to vein 5, then sinuous, the veins of terminal area 

 with dark streaks, a terminal series of slight black lunules. 



Hab. S. Chili, Araucania {Middleton) , 1 6 type. Exp. 

 46 mm. 



2530 o. Xylinissa pulverea, sp. n. 



Antennte of male simple, laminate. 



S . Head and thorax fuscous mixed witb grey ; tarsi ringed 

 with whitish ; abdomen fuscous mixed with ochreous grey, 

 the anal tuft more ochreous. Fore wing grey thickly irro- 

 rated and suffused with fuscous ; a slight black streak below 

 base of cell ; subbasal line represented by an oblique black 

 striga from costa; antemedial line indistinct, double, waved, 

 oblique ; vein 1 streaked with black on medial area ; clavi- 

 form represented by some yellow and black scales ; orbicular 

 and reniform large, very incompletely and indistinctly defined 

 by black and with some yellow scales on their edges, the 

 former oblique elliptical, the latter somewhat constricted at 

 middle and extending to well below cell ; medial line repre- 

 sented by an oblique dark striga from costa ; postmedial line 

 very indistinct, with some dark points on the veins, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then very oblique 

 to submedian fold and excurved at vein 1, some slight pale 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line represented by 

 blackish marks below costa, above and below vein 5, and in 

 submedian fold, with black streak from it to termen below 

 vein 2 ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia grey 

 mixed with fuscous, a slight dark line near base. Hind wing 

 white, a small black discoidal spot ; veins 7, 6 with dark 

 streaks ; a dark terminal line and some points on cilia from 

 apex to submedian fold ; the underside with the costal area 

 irrorated with brown, a postmedial series of minute dark 

 streaks on the veins. 



? . Fore wing much more variegated with white and black 

 and without the yellow scales on the stigmata. 



Hab. Peru, Limbani (Oc^e?ic?e»), 1 d,2 ? type. Exp., 

 ^ 36, ? 38 mm. 



