XYLOMOEA; RUACODES; PAR AMI AN A. By Dr. M. Drattdt. 
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mebmoleu- P. melarsoleuca Hmps. (39 e) is an easily recognized insect with a white forewing irrorated with brown. 
ca • with a red-brown apex, before the white-edged anterior transverse line with a black shortened band; the shortened 
posterior transverse line is connected with the anterior line, enclosing a triangular area which encloses the 
white-ringed ring-macula; undulate line white. Hindwing white, at the margin brownish. Peru. 
99. Genus : Xylomoea Stgr. 
Here the palpi are quite short, roughly scaled; the frons exhibits a rough projection. The thorax is 
clad with scales, in front and behind with loose tufts, the abdomen as in the preceding with but one basal tuft. 
4 American species are known. 
Inrirma. X. laetrina Drc. (39 e). Forewing greyish-brown with a coppery lustre with black transverse lines, 
the anterior line bordered with whitish-grey, the posterior line being double, at the costal margin white-spotted, 
strongly dentate with white vein-dots behind it; the maculae have light reddish centres, the reniform macula 
is surrounded by single white dots; in a light apical patch there are black streaks, below which the whitish den¬ 
tate undulate line is. Hindwing coppery brown. Mexico. 
didonea. X. didonea Sm. (39 e). Forewing greyish-brown, below the cell and from there to the margin irrorated 
with reddish-brown, with dark transverse lines being on the averted sides bordered with white, the maculae 
surrounded with whitish, the veins behind the cell are white-striped; the whitish undulate line forms a W below 
the centre. Hindwing light brown. Colorado, California. — Mr. Barnes and Mr. Benjamin had the kindness 
to send the original diagnose of a form which has not yet been published: ,.The subspecies from Utah is generally 
draxdli. smaller, lighter and greyer than the typical Colorado-form and may be published as draudti Barnes & Beni. 
(ined.) (39 f). Holotype d, allotype $, 5 dd 13 $$ paratypes; Eureka, Utah (Spalding) in the Coll. Barnes. 
Signed as responsible for the denomination and description by Wm. Barnes and F. H. Benjamin, Decatur, 111.“ 
chcujnoni. X. chagnoni B. db McD. (39 f) is somewhat similar to the preceding, but the frons is much less 
projecting. Forewing ferruginous brown, the marking rather indistinct, the transverse lines submedianly 
connected by a black streak, both lines not bordered with white, the anterior line double; veins of marginal 
area somewhat lighter striped; maculae very feebly marked. Hindwing light yellowish, at the margin brownish. 
Expanse of wings: 30 mm. Canada (Quebec). 
static is. X. staficis Dyar has a dark loam-coloured grey forewing, at the costal margin and basal area shaded 
with brown, with straight brown transverse lines, the anterior line sharply angled at the median; the ring- 
macula is a black dot, the reniform macula is composed of 2 rings being connected by a streak; the broad 
brown median shadow touches beneath the postmedian line; the undulate subterminal line is brown, the margin 
is white with a black-dotted base of the fringe. Hindwing brown, towards the base lighter. Expanse of wings: 
24 mm. Mexico (Sinaloa). 
100. Genus : Itiiacoiles Hmps. 
Of the same structure as Procrateria, but the conical frontal projection exhibits within the raised edge 
another flattened vertically placed projection; the last palpal joint is shorter and obtuser than there. But 
one American species is known. 
feta. R. tela Sm. (39 f). The grey forewing is thickly strewn with blackish-brown and in the proximal 
and marginal areas irrorated with olive, here with darker striped veins; the dentate transverse lines are double, 
the posterior line distally bordered with grey, both connected by a prolongation of the coniform macula, the 
upper maculae with light rings, the reniform macula strangulated; before the white dentate undulate line there 
are small black sagittae. Hindwing whitish, at the margin greyisli-brown. Arizona. 
101. Genus: Papamiaua B. u. Benj. 
Of the same structure as Neomilichia, but stouter and with much shorter palpi which are in front hairy, 
not scaled. The frontal projection is somewhat stronger. The genus was only very recently established, as 
the species niama Dyar belonging to the genus Amiana Dyar belongs to the Eraslriinae, and in the authors’ 
opinion the following also belong to it: Cerma marina Sm. (p. 30), Trachea smaragdina Neum. (p. 213), and 
Cerma canoa Barnes (p. 30). 
laetabilis. P. laetabilis Sm. (39 g). Forewing in the basal area and postmedianly light blue, very quickly fading 
into white, in the median area black, irrorated with grey, in the narrow marginal area black mixed with white, 
the dark median area defined by the dentate transverse lines, the maculae in it with whitish rings. Hindwing 
white, at the margin smoky. New Mexico. 
