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The $ is slightly paler ; irs abdomen very thick, beneath with two lateral 
series of black markings. The antennre have only slight, scaix:ely pei*ceptible 
cUiations. 
Family tiii. HADEXID^. 
Genus Hxde^a. 
HAj)E?fA >'EETATA, Guenee, n. s. 
Statura H.mutantis ; ahv anticce brunnece, costa,nervis omnibus, macu- 
lis, lineisque ordinariis albis, nigro limbatis : posticcB testacece. Thorax 
alba, brunneo nigroque varius. Antennce pectinat<£. 
This pretty Hadena resembles onr Neui-ia saponarke in its markings. Superior 
vrings wood-brown, the costa and all the nervnres white, sti-ongly defined, as are 
also the ordinary lines, which are bordered with smaU black dashes ; the two first 
lines somewhat confased, the elbow line is better distinguished by the small black 
limtiles which margin it ; lastly, the subterminal Une is the best marked in a zig- 
zag, and forming a ^ between the second and fotirth nervules ; the reniform and 
orbicnlar stigmas are very conspicuous, white, brown in the centre and bordered 
with 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 ? diflfers from the S only in its simple antennae. 
Famelt XTLIXID^. 
Genus Xtlocamea. 
Xtlocampa EN'CEPTrEA, "Walker. 
I have before me both sexes of a species which I think identical with that de- 
scribed by ilr. 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 2 , which 3Ir. Walker has not described, is of a dnUer grey than the <? , 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 <? , is very thick 
and spatulate, is here more slender and linear. 
This species, and the following, are not true XylincB, and to nie 
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. 
Xtlocampa cucDLLEJfA, Guenee, n. s. 
Statura X. incepturcp. AlcB anticce cinerecs, costa, lineolis, rnargineque 
nigro-punctatis, maculis distinctis : 'posticcBfuliginosoB, fimbria alba : subtus 
albidee, lunula cellulari limboque nigricantihus. Articulus tertius pal- 
porum mh-injlatus, secundo minor. 
