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fuscous, the veins with slight dark streaks ; subbasal line re- 

 presented by two oblique striae from costa ; a sinuous brown 

 streak below base of cell and wedge-shaped mark above inner 

 margin near base ; antemedial line represented by double black 

 points on costa, median nervure and vein 1, and faint elongate 

 teeth in and below cell and above inner margin ; claviform absent ; 

 orbicular hardly traceable, small, very oblique elliptical with slight 

 pale annulus ; reniform wdth very faint whitish annulus with 

 some brown points on it and three slight streaks before it in 

 cell ; medial line represented by an oblique striga from costa and 

 slight waved line from submedian fold to inner margin ; postmedial 

 line double at costa, then hardly traceable, bent outwards below 

 costa, then dentate and produced to a double series of black points 

 on the veins with white points between them, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved, with a white lunule in submedian interspace defined 

 by black on inner side with a brown patch before it, some pale points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, pale, minutely 

 dentate, incttrved at discal and submedian folds, the area beyond 

 it rufous with fuscous shades at discal and submedian folds, 

 extending to postmedial line ; a terminal series of black points ; 

 cilia chequered rufous and black. Hind wing ocbreous suffused with 

 fuscous leaving some ocbreous tinged with reddish on termen from 

 apex to submedian fold ; two dark postmedial points on vein 2 ; 

 cilia ocbreous tinged with rufous ; the underside ocbreous irrorated 

 with fuscous, a dark discoidal lunule, sinuous postmedial line with 

 minute dai;k streaks on the veins, and traces of diffused subterminal 

 line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Kew York, Evans Center (GVoife), 1 $ type, Buffalo, 

 Exjp. 50 millim. 



2825. Parastichtis vulgaris. (Plate CIX. fig. 29.) 



Xylophasia vulgaris, Grote & Eob. Proc. Ent. Soc. Pbil. vi. p. 18, pi. 3. 

 ■f. 2 (1866) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 139. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown ; palpi blackieh 

 at sides ; frons with lateral black bars ; tegula; with black medial 

 line ; patagia with black streak near upper edge ; tibi® banded 

 with blackish; abdomen grey-brown, the dorsal crests with blackish 

 and grey tips. Fore wing grey tinged with purplish and irrorated 

 with dark brown, the veins with dark streaks ; subbasal line 

 represented by double dark striae from costa ; a sinuous black 

 streak below base of cell and oblique streak above inner margin 

 near base ; antemedial line indistinctly double, oblique, dentate, 

 bent inwards to inner margin ; claviform short, defined by black, 

 with a black streak from its lower edge to postmedial line ; 

 orbicular and reniform with whitish annuli slightly defined by 

 brown, the former very oblique elliptical, the latter somewhat 

 constricted at middle ; an oblique medial shade from costa to 

 median nervure and slight dark streaks in the interspaces beyond 

 lower angle of cell ; postmedial line indistinctly double, bent 



