﻿1738 CATALOGUE OF 



excavata, ilia subovata ; posticce alhce^ margine lato ahhreviato 

 venisque nigricante-fmcis, 



Male, Pale cinereous, whitish beneath. Palpi obliquely as- 

 cending, second joint of the palpi very pilose ; third somewhat 

 tumid towards the tip, forming an angle with the second, and more 

 than half its length. Antennae minutely crenulated, rather short. 

 Thorax with a slender black band in front. Abdomen slightly 

 ridged, extending somewhat beyond the hind wings ; apical tuft 

 large. Fore wings with the lines black, denticulated, incomplete ; 

 submarginalline almost obsolete ; marginal lunules black ; orbicular 

 and reniform marks bordered with white and partly with black, the 

 former nearly oval, the latter much excavated on the outer side. 

 Hind wings white, with a broad blackish brown border, which is 

 abbreviated towards the interior angle; veins mostly blackish brown. 

 Length of the body 6 J lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



a. New Zealand. Presented by Col. Bolton. 



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XyLINA an ten NAT a. 



Mas. GlaucO'cinerea ; antennce validoe, dense ciliatce^ basi albce ; , 

 thorax vix carinatus^ linea transversa nndulata fusca, lineis j 

 duabus obliquis posterioribus e punctis nigris ; abdomen fasci- ] 

 culls duobus longiusculis apicalibus ; alee anticce lineola basali^ j 

 lineis transversis denticulatis subobsoletis apud costam diffusis 

 lunulisque marginalibus indistinctis nigris^ fascia submar- \ 

 ginali ferrugineo fusca maculari, orbiculari rotundata nigro 

 et ferrugineo marginata, annulo postico nigro ^ reniformi ex 

 parte ferruginea nigro submarginaia ; posticce cinerece. 



Male, Glaucous-cinereous, paler beneath. Antennae stout, 

 thickly ciliated, white at the base. Thorax very slightly keeled, 

 with a transverse undulating brown line, and with two hindward 

 oblique lines composed of black points. Abdomen with two rather 

 long apical tufts. Fore wings with a short basal longitudinal black 

 line, with almost obsolete transverse denticulated black lines, which 

 are diffuse by the costa, and with a submarginal macular brown 

 and ferruginous band ; marginal lunules small, black, indistinct ; 

 orbicular mark round, bordered with black and ferruginous, con- 

 tiguous to a small black hindward ringlet; reniform partly ferrugi- 

 nous, incompletely bordered with black. Hind wings cinereous ; 



