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XYLOMANIA; MONIMA. By W. Warren. 
18. Genus: Xylomauia Hmps. 
Tongue well developed; palpi short, porrect, the second segment hairy below; Irons smooth; thorax 
and dorsum with very feeble crests; pectus woolly; wings elongate; hindwing with veins 3, 4 and 6, 7 
shortly stalked. Type X. hiemalis Grote. Mainly a genus of N. American insects, but including 2 
palaearctic, 2 African, and 1 Indian species. 
Sect. IV. Antennae of <$ ciliated. (Sect. I—III not Indo-oriental.) 
X. v-album Hmps. (10 k). ForeAving ochreous whitish, irrorated and striated with fuscous, less v-album. 
prominently in terminal region; an ill-defined black streak below base of cell; inner line obscurely angled on med¬ 
ian nervure, then reduced to points; outer line ill-defined, angled on vein 4, thence oblique; a rather 
obscure triangular brown shade from termen below apex; small black terminal lunules; orbicular and 
reniform stigmata whitish, narrow, conversely oblique, and confluent beloAV, forming a v-shaped mark, 
the cell on each side and in middle black; a black point at loAver angle of cell; some black strigae 
on outer half of costa; hindwing fuscous, the fringe whitish. Known only from the Nilgiri Hills, Madras, 
S. India. 
19. Genus: ^Ionium Hbn. 
Tongue well developed; frons smooth, with a corneous plate below; palpi porrect, short; the second 
segment rough haired beneath; thorax very slightly crested; legs and pectus hairy; hindwing with veins 6, 
7 stalked. Type M. miniosa Schiff. 
Sect. I. Antennae bi pectinate nearly to apex, in the G with long, in the $ 
with short branche s. 
M. eriza Swinh. (10k). Forewing grey brown with a slight reddish tinge; lines obsolete except sub- eriza. 
terminal, which is defined by a row of small black spots internally; orbicular and reniform stigmata 
large, the former oblique and subquadrate, almost touching reniform below, defined internally by a black 
and whitish bar; the space between them with a black and white V-shaped mark; hindwing grey brown, 
with pale fringe. Kulu, Punjab, N. W. India. Described from a single $. 
M. rubida Hmps. Forewing grey red; a large chestnut broAvn patch at end of cell surrounding the reni- rubida. 
form stigma which is indistinct; a patch of dark suffusion on centre of inner margin; subterminal line straight, 
chestnut browm edged with pale; hindwing reddish fuscous; fringe rufous in both wings. Described from a $ 
taken at an elevation of 10 000 feet, at Tonglo, Sikkim, N. India. 
S e c t. II. Antennae of bipectin ate, of $ serrate only. 
M. fasciculata Hmps. (10 k). Forewing ochreous whitish, suffused with ferruginous and with red- fasciculate. 
broAvn striations and speckling; inner line oblique, slightly sinuous; outer line waved, excurved above and in¬ 
curved below vein 4, the area beyond it between costa and vein 5 redbrown; subterminal line ochreous 
white, diffused, and nearly straight, with black shading before it at costa and inner margin, and both 
before and beyond it at middle; the termen whitish, with a crenulate black line; claviform stigma 
large, with black outline; orbicular and reniform large, whitish, with black outlines, separated by a red- 
brown shade; the reniform with a brown centre enclosing a pale striga; hindwing brown, ferruginous- 
tinged; the termen whitish, and fringe ferruginous. Sikkim, N. India. 
M. cinnamomea Moore (8 k). Forewing whitish tinged with rufous and dusted Avith broAvn; dnnamo- 
lines rufous, the inner and outer conversely white-edged; both straight and oblique; subterminal the same, mea ‘ 
white-edged inwardly; terminal area beyond it somewhat darker; orbicular stigma large, oblique and 
elliptical, with white annulus defined by rufous; reniform quadrate, defined at sides by white and rufous; 
hindwing grey, tinged with pink and dusted with dark; termen and fringe pale rufous. Sikkim, N. India. 
Sect. III. Antennae of <$ with tuberculate fascicles of cilia. 
M. nigrorenalis Hmps. (10 k). Forewing whitish dusted and striated with dark, and flushed with nigrorenalis. 
pale redbrown; inner line obscure, straight, with a small black spot beyond it on inner margin; outer 
line bent outwards below costa and oblique to vein 6, thence inwardly oblique, and beloAV vein 4 nearly 
obsolete; subterminal line Avhitish, rather ill-defined; terminal black points; orbicular a small round black 
spot; reniform a narrow black lunule, its lower end connected by a diffused black cloud betAveen veins 2 and 
4 with subterminal line; lower half of median shade prominent; hindwing pale suffused with reddish broAvn; 
fringe of both wings white at base. Sikkim, N. India. 
