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XANTHOTHRIX; AXENUS; ANNAPHILA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
scarletina. 
neumoegeni. 
stagmato- 
gon. 
ranunculi. 
albipuncta. 
arvalis. 
ochraceus. 
ampla. 
arvalis. 
danistica. 
mera. 
domina. 
P. scarletina 8m. (47 d) has light brownish forewings powdered with red particularly at the margins, 
with very faintly marked lighter transverse lines which are submedianly connected by a streak, without maculae; 
behind the undulate line the margin is yellowish-white, the fringes purely scarlet. Hindwing black. Expanse 
of wings: 12 mm. Utah. 
214. Genus: Xaiathothrfx Edw. 
Distinguished from the allied Heliothodes by the different frontal projection consisting of a projection 
surrounded by a ring-wall with a central cone which is excavated in front; besides the anterior tibiae exhibit 
inside at the end a bent claw. Here the small reniform eyes are likewise connected with heliophily. To the 
two older North-American species another Mexican representative has been recently added. 
X. neumoegeni Edw. (47 d) is orange-yellow on the forewing with orange-red veins and folds, similar 
transverse lines, and median and subterminal bands. Hindwing deep orange-red with a blackish marginal band. 
California. 
X. stagmatogon Dyar (47 d) has a somewhat different frontal appendage, the central projection 
being developed as a vertical plate with a slight thickening at the lower end. Forewing dark orange with blackish- 
brown longitudinal stripes through the cell and above and below the lower median branch, a round white spot 
below the cell-end and a black undulate line behind which there are large yellowish spots at the apex and 
anal angle. Hindwing black. Mexico (Guerrero). 
X. ranunculi Edw. (47 d) has plain olive yellow forewings scantily strewn with a darker colour, the 
hindwing being more intensely powdered with blackish-brown. The $ is darker on the whole. California. — 
The form albipuncta B. & Ben), from California has near the cell-end a round white spot. 
215. Genus: Axeims Grt. 
Structurally likewise very similar to the preceding genera; only the frontal appendage is different: 
a truncate projection with a ring-wall, the lower end produced like a shovel, with a horny plate below it. But- 
one small variable species: 
A. arvalis Grt. (47 d) is on the forewing dark olive-brown, powdered with grey, with dark brown 
fine transverse and median lines, in the anterior half of the median area grey and with a faded whitish undulate 
line. Hindwing likewise olive-brown, powdered with grey, with faded lines in the centre and behind it. — In 
the form ochraceus Edw. the head and thorax is reddish-yellow, the forewing shows a coppery red tint. — In 
the form ampla Edw. the lighter grey markings are extinct, excepting the undulate line. Oregon, Colorado, 
California. 
216. Genus: Aimapliila Grt. 
Separated from the preceding ones by the plain rounded frontal projection with a horny plate under 
it. All the rest is more or less similar. Quite a number of these heliophile small insects have been described 
from North America. 
A. arvalis Edw. (= salicis Edw.) (47 d). Forewing blackish-brown, strewn with purple grey with 
black transverse lines, the anterior line proximally bordered with white, behind the distal line a broad purple 
grey post-median band; undulate line indistinctly grey. Hindwing orange, without a discal sj)ot-, at the base 
and hind-margin blackish-brown, with a narrow black marginal band. Oregon, California. 
A. danistica Grt. (47 d) like all the following species exhibits a black discal spot on the hindwing; 
forewing dark brown, strewn with grey, with indistinctly double transverse lines filled with grey, and small 
grey maculae surrounded with brown. On the orange hindwing a dark post median line extends between the 
very narrow black margin and the discal spot. In the $ the markings are more distinctly grey. Oregon, Cali¬ 
fornia. 
A. mera Harv. (47 d) is similar to danistica, with a slight olive tint, single transverse lines, on the 
averted sides bordered with whitish, connected by the coniform macula. On the hindwing the marginal band 
is somewhat broader, the postmedian line is absent. California. 
A. domina Edw. (47 e) is very much like mera, chiefly distinguished by a black spot between the 
maculae, the ring-macula being open above; the reniform macula is only on the inside bordered by a white 
streak; the ground-colour is a purer black strewn with grey, less brown. California. 
