. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. 304 NOCTUIDJ^ luodiau fold ; antcmedial line double, waved, nearly erect; clavi- form slightly defined by black; orbicular and renit'urm delined by black, the former oblique elliptical, open al)ove, grey or rufous with grey annulus, the latter rufous with grey aniiulus ; 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 ; subtcrminal line whitish, sometimes finely defined by black on inner side, the area be
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. 304 NOCTUIDJ^ luodiau fold ; antcmedial line double, waved, nearly erect; clavi- form slightly defined by black; orbicular and renit'urm delined by black, the former oblique elliptical, open al)ove, grey or rufous with grey annulus, the latter rufous with grey aniiulus ; 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 ; subtcrminal 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 uppersidc, and a postmedial series of short streaks on the veins. Hub. , Oregon, California. San llaphael, 1 $ type, Havilah, 1 $ . Exp. 38 millim. 1710. Xylomania simplex. Acronycfa simplex, Wlk. xxxii. 618 (18(i5); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 233. Xi/lomiges crucialis, Harv. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 277 (1875). Head and thorax white mixed with grey ; frons with black bar ; tegulfe with black medial line; patagia edged with black ; tarsi ringed with black ; abdomen grey tinged with rufous. Fore wing white thickly irrorated with fuscous; a strong black streak below base of cell; the subbasal line represented by an oblique black striga from costa, the antcmedial line by stria? from costa and inner. Fig. 103.—Xylomania simplox, ,^. \. margin ; claviform large, more or less completely defined l)y black; orbicular large, oblique, wedge-shaped, open above, defined by a black patcli or streak before it in cell, and the oblique medial black shade beyond it from costa to median nervure ; reniform larg
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