280 noctuidjf;. 



Genus XYLINA. 



Type. 



Xylena, Ochs. ScliDiett. Eui\ iv. p. 85 (181(i), non descr vetmta.. 



Xylina, Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. (3) p. 3 (1826) vetusta. 



Axylia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 242 (1827) exoleta. 



Ccdooamixi, Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 172 (1829) exoleta. 



Proboscis fully developed, palpi porrect, thickly scaled, short and not 

 reachiug beyond the large frontal tuft ; eyes rounded ; antenna of male- 

 ciliated ; tegulaj produced to a, dorsal ridge ; thorax quadrately scaled, clothed 

 witli hair and hair-like scales, with some large ' scales near upper edge of 

 patagia. Prothorax without distinct crest, metathorax with ci-est ; pectus and 

 femora clothed with long hair, fore tarsi with the spines strong; abdomen- 

 ratiier flattened dorsally, clothed with rough hair on dorsum and with lateral 

 tufts of hair. Fore wing rather long and narrow, the inner margin lobed near 

 base, the termen crenulate; \eins 3 and 5 from near angle of ceil; 6 from 

 upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing witli 8 to form the areole ; 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from below 

 middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 shortly stalked; 8 anastomosing with the cell 

 near base. 



A. Fore wing with the subterminal line dentate at veius 



4,3. 



a. Fore wing with the orbicular obsolescent, with obliquely 



placed rufous points in it. 



a^. Fore wing with the black streak above vein 4 ex- 

 tending to reniform iiupera.. 



h^. Fore wing with the black streak above vein 4 not 



extending to reniform vetusta. 



b. Fore wing with the orbicular well deiined. 



ci^. Fore wing with the orbicular small and closely 

 approximated to reniform. 

 a^. Fore wing with ochreous lunule on outer edge of 

 reniform. 

 d-K Fore wing with the ochreous suffusion beyond 



the cell extending to apex curvimacula. 



It'. Fore wing with the ochreous suffusion beyond 

 the cell not extending to apex. 



«4. Head and tegulte bright rufous hrillians. 



b^. Head and tegulse ochreous tinged with rufous, cineritia. 

 6^. Fore wing with grey lunule on outer edge of 



r e n i f o r m bnicei. 



Z»i. Fore wing with the orbicular larger and further 

 from reniform. 



a-. Hind wing with tlie base pale exoleta. 



b^. Hind wing with the base dark fumoscc. 



B. Fore wing with the subterminal line not dentate at 



veins 4, 3 formosa. 



2444. Xylina nupera. (Plate CITI. fig. 10.) 



Calocampa nupera, Lint. Bull. Buff. Soc. JVat. Sci. ii. p. 188 (1874) ; 

 Smitl), Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 235. 



Head and basal half of tegula? ochreous tinged with rufous ; palpi, 

 lower part of frons, and lateral bars across frons purple brown ; 

 tegulse with black medial line with whitish line before it ; tips of 

 tegulse and thorax purple-brown ; patagia whitish at base on outer 

 edge ; pectus and legs ochreous and jDurple-brown ; abdomen 

 ochreous tinged with rufous, the ventral surface dark. .Fore wing 



