XYLOMYGKS. 273' 



Body rohiisf, joints o and 12 eulargerl ; dark grey finely dotted with 

 yellowish ; dorsal line narrow, reddish ; subdorsal broader, with a 

 series of angular black marks above it ; upper half of lateral space 

 paler than the lower, a dark patch on joint 5 ; substigmatal band 

 yellowish, dark-centered, obsolete on thorax ; cervical shield dark. 

 Food-plants : Various. — H. G. D. 



3884. Xylomyges peruviana. (Plate CXXVIII. fig. 31.) 



Lafhygma 'peruviana, Wlk. xxxii. 650 (1865). 



Laphygma commwnicata, Wlk. Char. Uiidescr. Plet. p. 3] (1SG9). 



Head and thorax white suffused with pale rufous ; palpi with 

 rufous marks at sides on 1st and 2nd joints ; tegulae with slight 

 whitish medial line ; tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdomen 

 ochreous tinged with brown. Fore wing ochreous faintly tinged 

 with rufous and slightly irrorated with black except towards base ; 

 faint traces of an oblique rufous streak above inner margin before 

 the hardly traceable oblique waved antemedial line ; orbicular 

 represented by a minute dark point, the reniform by a very faint 

 greyish mark at upper angle of cell slightly defined by blackish on 

 inner side ; postmedial line hardly traceable, strongly bent outwards 

 below costa, then represented bj^ slight black points on the veins, 

 incurved below vein 3 ; subterminal line represented by traces of 

 an oblique pale streak from termen below vein 4 to vein 2 slightly 

 defined by rufous above. Hind wing semihyaline white ; the 

 underside with the apex slightly irrorated with brown. 



Uah. Peku, 3 (5,4 $ , type and type corHmM?i?'c«te. Ex'p. 30-40 

 millim. 



3885. Xylomyges oclirea, n. sp. (Plate CXXIX. fig. 1.) 



S . Head and thorax ochreous slightly irrorated with pale 

 brown ; palpi with slight brown mark at side of 2nd joint ; 

 abdomen white, the crests and anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing 

 ochreous faintly tinged with rufous and irrorated with a few 

 blackish scales, the base of inner margin, end of cell and area jusb 

 beyond upper angle rather whiter ; anteraedial line absent ; the 

 orbicular represented by a faint minute dark mark, the reniform by 

 a faint small dark spot ; postmedial line represented by faint 

 minute dark points on veins 6 to 2 ; traces of oblique whitish 

 streaks from tei-men below apex and vein 4 to the postmedial line ; 

 a terminal series of black points ; cilia yellowish with a slight 

 rufous line through them. Hind wing hyaline white ; the underside 

 with a few blackish scales on apical half of costal area and some 

 black points on termen towards apex. 



Hah. Peru, Callao (J. J. Walker), 2 ^ type, E.rp. 36 millim. 



