XTLOMCEA. 535 



tuale ciliated ; thorax typically clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the pro- 

 and metathorax wiih spreading crests; tibia; moderately fringed with hair; 

 abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing rather narrow, the termen 

 crenulate, oblique towards tornus ; veins 3 and 5 frora near angle of cell ; 

 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole : 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescenr, 

 from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked or from angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Thorax clothed chiefly with scales. 



A. Fore wing dark cupreous brown l(etrina. 



B. Fore wing pale grey-brown didonea. 



4265. Xylomcea laetrina. 



Apumea Icefi'i/ia, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 477, pi. 93. f. 21 

 (1898). 



Head and thorax brown mixed with greyish ; pro- and meta- 

 thorax with paired black spots ; patagia with black spots at 

 middle and tips ; pectus grey ; tarsi blackish ringed with white ; 

 abdomen grey dorsally suffused with brown. Fore wing brown 

 with a cupreous gloss ; subbasal line black, oblique, from costa to 

 vein 1, above which it is produced into a slight streak ; antemedial 



Fig. 146. — Xylomcea lielrlna, (j" . \. 



line indistinct, slightly defined by greyish on inner side, angled 

 outwards below costa, then oblique, waved and angled inwards to 

 whitish points on the veins ; claviform narrow, pale brown slightly 

 defined by black ; orbicular pale red-brown with faint whitish 

 annulus defined by blackish, very oblique elliptical ; reniform 

 defined by blackish and with pale red-brown centre defined by 

 blackish, some whitish points on its annulus at upper and lower 

 edges ; postmedial line very indistinct, double, with some whitish 

 on it at costa, strongly bent outwards below costa, then strongly 

 dentate and produced to whitish points on the veins, verj- oblique 

 below vein 4 ; a diffused oblique whitish fascia from costa just 

 before apex to below vein 7 with black streaks from it to termen 

 above and below vein 7 ; a faint dentate whitish subterminal line ; 

 a terminal series of small black lunules defined on inner side by 

 slight whitish lunules; cilia with fine pale line at base. Hind wing 

 cup"3ous brown with a slight dark discoidal spot ; cilia white 

 tinged with brown at tips ; the underside white irrorated with 

 brown, a black discoidal lunule, faint crenulate postmedial line 



