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and tegulse to the dark medial line whitish tinged with rufous ; 

 abdomen grey-brown mixed with dark brown. Fore wing grey 

 suffused and irrorated with fuseous, especially on costa and the inner 

 medial area ; a slight black streak below base of cell ; antemedial 

 line hardly traceable, strongly angled outwards in the interspaces 

 and inwards on the veins ; orbicular and reniform grey, their centres 

 and circumference defined by black, the former elliptical, the latter 

 much constricted at middle, some fuscous suffusion between them ; 

 postmedial line represented by traces of a double series of black 

 points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, then oblique ; sub- 

 terminal line hardly traceable, grey, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 dentate to termen at veins 4, 3, with an elongate wedge-shaped 

 black mark before it above vein 4 and slight dark streaks beyond it 

 in the interspaces ; cilia grey intersected with whitish and with 

 two dark lines through them. Hind wing uniformly suffused with 

 fuscous brown with a reddish tinge ; cilia whitish ; the underside 

 whitish tinged with flesh-colour and irrorated with brown, a slight 

 discoidal lunule, very ill-defined oblique postmedial line, and some 

 strife on termen. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs, 1 5 . Exp. oS millim. 



2450. Xylina exoleta. 



Noctua exoleta, Lmn. Syst. Nat. x. p. 515 (1758) ; Esp. Scbmett. iv. pi. 138. 

 ff. 1-3; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 244; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 163, 

 pi. cxi. f. 2 ; Steph. HI. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 173; Curt. Brit. Ent. 

 pi. 256; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 211. 



Calocampa impudica, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 35. 



Head and thorax grey, almost entirely suffused with fuscous 

 black ; the vertex of head and tegulae ochreous tinged with rufous, 

 the latter with brown medial line and rufous tips ; patagia with 

 some black scales near upper edge ; pectus ochreous and fuscous ; 

 legs rufous and fuscous. Eore wing pale brownish ochreous suffased 

 with grey and with fuscous on inner half and medial costal area ; 

 antemedial line indistinct, double, very highly angled outwards in 

 the interspaces and inwards on the veins, in cell almost to base ; 

 orbicular and reniform with their centres and circumferences defined 

 by blackish and with some black marks in centres, both irregularly 

 elliptical and constricted at middle, the latter with some fuscous 

 suffusion beyond it before the postmedial line, which is very in- 

 distinct, highly dentate and produced to a double series of black 

 points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, then oblique, some 

 white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line ochreous defined 

 by brownish on inner side and with elongate wedge-shaped black 

 mark before it above vein 4, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate 

 to termen at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of slight black marks ; 

 cilia grey with two black lines through them. Hind wing ochreous 

 suffused with reddish fuscous except at base and inner margin ; 

 cilia ochreous white ; the underside ochreous, the veins irrorated 

 with fuscous, a slight black streak in base of cell, discoidal spot, and 

 oblique postmedial series of short dark streaks on the veins. 



