588 NOCTUID.^. 



medial liue black, oblique from cost a to median nervure, strongly 

 incurved in submedian interspace and angled outwards above inner 

 margin ; claviform moderate, defined by black ; orbicular white 

 incompletely defined by black and with reddish-brown centre, round, 

 with some white suffusion beyond and below its lower extremitj' ; 

 reniform dark brown defined by black and with whitish annulus on 

 inner side and above ; an indistinct waved medial line ; postmedial 

 line double, strong, black, bent outwards below costa, incurved at 



7ig. 83.— Behrensia conchiforyiiis, (^ . {. 



discal fold, below vein 4 incurved to below reniform and waved, the 

 outer line only distinct towards costa ; terminal area greyer with 

 traces of dentate whitish subterminal line ; a terminal series of 

 small black lunules ; cilia dark brown. Hind wing with the basal 

 half reddish brown with some white in and beyond end of cell and 

 on inner area ; an obscure discoidal lunule and postmedial line 

 cxcurved at middle, the area beyond it fuscous ; cilia fuscous at 

 base, white at tips ; the underside with the basal area rather whiter 

 suffused with reddish brown. 



Nab. U.S.A., Washington Territory, 1 5 ? Oregon, Portland, 

 ■California, Sanzalito, 1 c^ , 1 $ type. Earp. 32 millim. 



Genus XYLOTYPE, nov. 



Type, A', capax. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, moderate, fringed with long- 

 hair in front ; frons smooth, rounded ; eyes large ; antennte of male ciliated ; 

 head and thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the thorax quadrately scaled, the 

 tegulffi pi-odueed to a slight dorsal ridge; the pro- and metathorax with 

 spreading crest ; pectus clothed with long hair ; abdomen with dorsal series of 

 crests, the one on 3rd segment large. Fore wing broad, triangular ; veins 

 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the areole ; ] 1 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle 

 of cell; 5 obsolescent from just buiow angle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper 

 tingle ; S anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



2454. Xylotype capax. 



Xijlina capax, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i. p. 355, pi. 7. f. 37 ('1868) ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 230. 



Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with black-brown ; frons 

 with black bar ; tegulae with black medial line ; patagia with some 

 Idack scales near edges ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen brown 

 irrorated with grey. Pore wing purplish grey suffused with brown 

 and rufous ; subbasal line indistinctly double filled in with grey. 



