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XVII. DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW SPECIES OF XYLINA. 



Xylina lepida n. sp. 



Anterior wings plumbeous gray ; lines distinct, pale gray. 

 Demi-line in two elongated teeth, bordered on each, side with 

 black. Anterior transverse line bordered behind by black, 

 quite angulated, united with the orbicular, sharply toothed 

 (more than in X. T7iaxteri) on the submedian fold. Posterior 

 transverse line bordered before with black, distinctly toothed 

 on the veins, touching the reniform beneath in two of its 

 inward inflections, and connected with -the anterior transverse 

 by a black line on the submedian fold. Subterminal line less 

 sharply projected inward opposite the cell and on submedian 

 fold than in X. Thaxteri, and bordered outwardly by a series 

 of connected black lunules which are heavier than elsewhere 

 against its more prominent inward inflections. 



Discal spots distinct, gray, paler just within their black 

 border, making almost a double annulation : orbicular large, 

 oval, oblique, very near to reniform beneath : reniform elon- 

 gate, nearly straight outwardly, quite exserted inwardly, with 

 a black line within it on the median vein, distinctly bordered 

 on all sides with black, but more heavily below; in X. Thax- 

 teri the spot is more broadly edged beneath with black, and 

 more deeply exserted outwardly ; the two spots are connected 

 at their extremities by a black line. A brown shade-band 

 traverses the median space between the discal spots, terminating 

 on the internal margin midway between the transverse lines. 



Posterior wings pale fuscous, with a discal spot and an 

 indistinct fuscous band before the outer margin. 



Thorax, color of primaries, sprinkled with gray and promi- 

 nently tufted. Frontal tuft and shoulder covers bordered 

 with a black line followed by white. Abdomen untufted, 

 reddish. 



Beneath, wings reddish : primaries with a heavy discal 

 spot and partly crossed by two extradiscal bands : second- 

 aries with a distinct discal spot and median line. 



* Lithophane lepida Lintner MS. GROTE. in Bull. U. S. Geolog. Geograpli. 

 Surv. Terr., iv, no. i, p. 181. February, 1878. 



