XTLOJICEA. — RUACODES. 



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series of small black lunules ; cilia brown iutersected with whitish. 

 Hind wing white faintly tinged with brown ; traces of a discoidal 

 lunula and curved postmedial line ; the underside with the costal 



Fig. 147. — Xylomcea graminca, J. -j- 



and terminal areas slightly irrorated with brown, a discoidal point 

 and postmedial series of minute points on the veins. 



Hab. E. Siberia, Ussuri, Raddefka, 1 S ■ Exjp. 30 millim. 



Genus RUACODES, nov. 



Type, E. tela. 



Proboscis fully deTelo]ied ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint fringed 

 with scales in front and reaching to about middle of frons, the 3rd short, blunt ; 

 frons with truncate conical prominence with raised edges, flattened vertical 

 central process and corneous plate below it ; eyes large, rounded ; antennae of 

 female almost simple ; head and thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- 

 and metathoras with spreading crests ; tibite moderately fringed with hair ; 

 abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, 

 the teriiien evenly curved and moderately crenulate ; veins 3 and 6 from 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 ; 

 .0 obsolescent from middle of diseocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked; 8 anasto- 

 mosing with the cell near base onlj^. 



4268. Euacodes tela. 



Hadena tela. Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 470 (1900) ; Dyar, Cat. 

 Lep. N. Am. p. 115. 



$ . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey and some 

 black and tinged with olive ; patagia with strong black streak near 





Fig. 148. — Ruacodci) tela, 5 ■ t- 



upper edge ; tarsi fuscous ringed with whitish ; abdomen grey- 

 brown tinged with olive at base, the basal crest darker. Fore- wing 

 gi'cy thickly irrorated with fuscous and tinged with olive especially 

 on inner and terminal areas ; subbusal line represented by two 



