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The ? is slightly paler ; its abdomen very thick, bcueath with two lateral 

 series of black markings. The antennas have only slight, scarcely perceptible 

 ciliations. 



Family viii. HADENID^. 



Genus Hadena. 

 Hadena neevata, Guenee, n. s. 



Statura H.mutantis ; alee antics hrunnece, costa^nervis omnibus, macii- 

 Us, lineisque ordinariis albis, nigro limbatis : posticce testacece. Thorax 

 albo, brunneo nigroque varius. Antennce pectinatce. 



This pretty Hadma resembles our Neuria saponarioe in its markings. Superior 

 wings wood-brown, the costa and all the nervures white, strongly defined, as arc 

 also the ordinary lines, which are bordered with small black dashes ; the two first 

 lines somewhat confused, the elbow line is better distinguished by the small black 

 lunulas which margin it ; lastly, the subterminal line is the best marked in a zig- 

 zag, and forming a ^ between the second and fourth nervules ; the reniform and 

 orbicular stigmas are very conspicuous, white, brown in the centre and bordered 

 wdth black ; the claviform is confused with the basal markings : inferior wings pale 

 brown with white fringe ; beneath nearly white, with a dark cellular spot and median 

 line. Thorax brown, with black lines, edged with white on the collar and on the 

 patagia. Antennae spatulated and pubescent, furnished with slender but long 

 laminae. 



The ^ differs from the S only in its simple antennae. 



Family XYLINID^. 

 Genus Xylocampa. 

 Xylocampa inceptuea, Walker. 



I have before me both sexes of a species which I think identical with that de- 

 scribed by Mr. Walker (Cat. Lep. Brit. Mus., p. 1736), although the examples present 

 some differences ; notably the absence of the black basal line and terminal dots. 

 The $ , which Mr. Walker has not described, is of a duller grey than the S , and 

 the median lines, which are scarcely visible in that sex, are here plainly marked in 

 geminated zig-zags. The third joint of the palpi, which, in the S , is very thick 

 and spatulate, is here more slender and linear. 



This species, and the following, are not true XylincB^ and to me 

 appear to have more affinity with my genus Xylocampa ; i. e. until the 

 discovery of their earlier states, and of other analogous species, shall 

 justify the creation of a separate genus proper to Oceania. 



Xylocampa cucullij^a, Guenee, n. s. 



Statura X. incepturai. Ales anticce cinere<e, costa, lineolis, margineque 

 nigro-punctatis, maculis distinctis : posticee fuHginos(B,Jimbria alba : subtus 

 albid(B, lunula cellulari limboque nigricantibus. Articulus iertius j^al- 

 porum sub-lnjlatus, secundo minor. 



