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area and postmedianly suffused with reddish-brown, with similarly running transverse lines; the ring-macula 
is punctiformly centred and the reniform macula doubly centred, between both an oblique blackish-brown 
median shadow; before the distal margin and subapically at the costal margin with the same blackish- 
brown triangular spots as in jucunda. Hindwing diaphanous white, only at the apex brownish. Southern 
Brazil (Sao Paulo). 
E. exstrigata Dgn. Forewing lilac-grey, in the basal area, in the centre of the costal margin, and exstrigaia. 
postmedianly brownish; between the large not surrounded pale maculae the cell is likewise brownish; before 
the centre a row of 5 black strigiform lines enclosing a faded submedian spot which is parted by a light 
line; before the margin small black sagittary spots, at the anal angle a semicircular line. Hindwing diapha¬ 
nous white with blackened veins and marginal band, as well as a central dot and a punctiform postmedian 
line. Expanse of wings: 39 mm. Colombia (Quindiu Pass). 
E, adducta Fldr. Forewing grey with a reddish tint, in the discal area irrorated with brown and strewn adducta. 
with a darker colour; transverse lines double, crenulate, filled up with grey, maculae centred brown; before 
the indistinct grey undulate line with small blackish spots. Hindwing yellowish-white, in the marginal half 
greyish-brown, in the $ quite reddish-brown. Expanse of wings: 40 to 42 mm. Venezuela. 
49. Genus: Xylinissa limps. 
Separated from the preceding genus by narrower wings, the abdomen being only tufted on the first 
rings without lateral hair, and by shorter haired tibiae; otherwise everything is the same. The $ antennae 
are only ciliated or plain. Only 4 species have been described. 
X. lignitis Schs. (29 b). Forewing purple grey with reddish-brown irroration particularly in and behind lignitis. 
the cell, with a black basal ray, hardly traceable transverse lines, and grey maculae surrounded with black, 
the ring-macula connected with a similar round spot below it; the veins before the undulate line, which is 
indistinctly marked by small brown sagittae, are marked black. Hindwing white with brown veins and mar¬ 
ginal line. Colombia (Bogota). 
X. oniroe Dgn. (29 b) has greyish-brown forewings with whitish irroration in the costal-marginal half oniroe. 
of the basal area and in the central area as far as down to the submedian fold, a black basal ray and in¬ 
distinctly double transverse lines, the posterior line being more punctiform or strigiform; maculae whitish 
grey, the reniform macula on the median proximally produced; undidate line whitish, distally edged with 
blackish-brown, with small black spots before it. Hindwing purely white, diaphanous, with brown veins. 
Ecuador. 
X. cossoides Btlr. (29 c). Forewing greyish-brown, striated darker with a black basal ray being co- cossoides. 
herent with the coniform macula which bends round upward and unites with the ring-macula, being open 
above and below; posterior transverse line single, dentate; reniform macula large, surrounded with black; 
veins of the marginal area striped black; the undulate line consists of white streaks distally bordered with 
black. Hindwing diaphanous white, veins in the marginal area striped black. Chile. 
X. pulverea Hmps. is on the forewing grey, strewn with blackish-brown, with a black basal ray, pulverea. 
an anterior double and a posterior single transverse line with vein-dots; the large maculae are incompletely 
surrounded by black and encircled with some yellow scales; instead of the undulate line some small black 
spots and a black anal ray. Hindwing white with a small black central spot and dark apical veins. The $ 
is more marked black and white and lacks the yellow colour in the maculae. Expanse of wings: 3(3 to 
38 mm. Peru. 
X. strigosa Hmps. Forewing purple grey, in some places irrorated with brown and densely striated strigosa. 
with blackish-brown, with indistinct double blackish-brown transverse lines, the anterior line proximally at 
the costal margin bordered with whitish ; the grey maculae are finely surrounded with black and centred dark 
brown, instead of the undulate line there is an interrupted reddish-brown nebulous stripe. Hindwing light 
reddish-brown, on the veins and margin darkened, with a darker central spot. Expanse of wings: 34 mm. 
Peru (Acopampa). 
50. Genus: Rhizotype Hmps. 
Separated from the following genus Bryomima by a large bipartite tuft on the prothorax and a loose 
tuft on the metathorax, as well as a series of tufts on the first abdominal lings. Besides palearctic species 
only one tropical American species. A series of smaller Noctuids that were described as Rhizotype, have in 
the meantime been transferred to the genus Homoanarta. Cf. also Vol. Ill, p. 138. 
Rh. confluens Drc. (33 h). Forewing dark reddish-brown with a lighter costal-marginal stripe, the confluens. 
distal margin and hindmargin being lighter, too; the large maculae flown together in the shape of a U are 
light brown; from the apex to the centre of the hindmargin runs a pinkish-brown line; at the anal angle 
there is a dark brown spot; fringes speckled light and dark. Hindwing dark brown. Expanse of wings: 37mm. 
South East Peru. 
