. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 394 NOCTUIDiE. mediau fold ; antomedial line double, waved, uoarly erect; clavi- form slightly defined by black; orbicular aud renifurm defined by black, the former oblique elliptical, open above, grey or rufous with grey annulus, the latter rufous with grey aunulus ; postmedial line double, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold, incurved below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line whitish, sometimes finely defined by black on inner side, the area beyond it dark e
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 394 NOCTUIDiE. mediau fold ; antomedial line double, waved, uoarly erect; clavi- form slightly defined by black; orbicular aud renifurm defined by black, the former oblique elliptical, open above, grey or rufous with grey annulus, the latter rufous with grey aunulus ; postmedial line double, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold, incurved below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line whitish, sometimes finely defined by black on inner side, the area beyond it dark except at apex, where there is a grey patch, angled outwards at vein 7, then nearly straight; a terminal series of black lunules ; cilia grey mixed with dark brown. Hind wing white, some brown irroration on the veins and inner area ; a terminal lunulate black line ; the underside with brown irroration on costal area, a black discoidal lunule showing through to upperside, and a postmedial series of short streaks on the veins. Hah. , Oregon, California, San Raphael, 1 $ type, Havilah, 1 $ . Exp. yS millim. 1710. Xylomania simplex. Acronycta simplex, Wlk. xxxii. 618 (18()5); Siiiitb, Oat. Noct. N. Am. p. 233. Xylomiges cruciaUs, Harv. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 277 (1875). Head and thorax white mixed with grey ; frons with black bar ; tegulae with black medial line; patagia edged with black ; tarsi ringed with black ; abdomen grey tinged with rufous. Fore wing white thickly irroratcd with fuscous; a strong black streak below base of cell; the subbasal line represented by an oblique black striga from costa, the antemedial line by strise from costa and inner. Fig, 106.—Xylomcmia siiiiplox-, (J. ,. margin ; claviform large, more or less completely defined by black; orbicular large, oblique, wedge-shaped, open above, defined by a black patch or streak before it in cell, and the oblique medial black shade beyond it from costa to median nervure; reniform large, rounded,
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