XYLINA. 281 



ochreous suffused with rufous, the inner area darker, the lower part 

 of cell and area just below it grey-white ; a strong black streak 

 below lower part of cell ; antemcdial line double, indistinct on 

 costal half, then more prominent, very strongly angled outwards in 

 the interspaces, especially above inner margin, and inwards on the 

 veins, in cell almost to base, some black scales on its inner edge on 

 costal half; claviform represented by two black streaks between 

 ante- and postmedial lines ; orbicular very indistinct, oblique^ 

 irregular, defined by some black scales and with two brown marks 

 in centre ; reniform narrow and constricted at middle, with whitish 

 centre defined bj' rufous and ochreous annulus incompletely defined 

 by black, some rufous suffusion beyond it ; postmedial line very 

 indistinct, strongly and irregularly dentate and produced to black 

 points on its veins, bent outwards below costa, strongly incurved 

 in discal fold and strongly bidentate inwards in submedian inter- 

 space, some white points beyond it on costa ; a black streak above 

 vein 4 to the subterminal line, which is ochreous, angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and dentate to termen on veins 4, 3, cilia dark brown. 

 Hind wing pale rufous suffused Avith fuscous except on basal and 

 inner areas ; cilia pale rufous ; the underside ochreous suffused with 

 rufous, the veins irrorated with fuscous ; a black discoidal lunule 

 and a somewhat dentate fuscous postmedial line, excurved below 

 costa, then oblique, some slight lunules on termen. 



Hah. Canada, Hudson's Bay (Barnston), 1 c? , E. Canada 

 (Norman), 1 $, Orillia (Bush), 1 $, Alberta, Calgary (WoUey- 

 Dod), 1 (S ; U.S.A., South to Distr. Columbia and West to Ne- 

 braska, Massachusetts, IN'ewton (TJuuvter), 2 § . E.vp. 60-66 millim. 



Larva. Head green. Body brilliant apple-green, more rarely 

 brown, lighter intersegmentally. Stigmatal band narrow, black 

 above, greenish white below. Tubercles white ; spiracles orange ;, 

 thoracic feet reddish, the abdominal ones green. — H. G. D. ' 



2445. Xylina vetusta. 



Noctua vetusta, Hiibn. Eur. Sehmett., Noct. f. 459 (1827) ; Diip. Lep. Fr,' 

 vii. p. 159, pi. cxi. f. 1 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 174 ; Stand. 

 Cat. Lep. pal. p. 211. 



Head and base of tegulas and shoulders ochreous tinged with 

 rufous ; palpi and lower part of irons deep rufous ; the rest of 

 thorax deep purple-brown, some rufous lines on base of tegula3 and 

 a black medial line ; the scales near upper edge of patagia and the 

 metathoracie crest blackish ; pectus and legs ochreous and rufous ; 

 abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous, the ventral surface rufous. 

 Fore wing ochreous tinged with rufous or grey-white, the inner 

 half suffused with purplish rufous ; antemedial line double, in- 

 distinct on costal half, very highly angled outwards in the inter- 

 spaces and inwards on the veins ; claviform represented by a patch 

 of dark suffusion ; orbicular represented by two or three obliquely- 

 placed points with traces of a waved line round their outer side ;, 



