17-4 

 PHILEREME Hiibner. Plate 1. fig. 13. 



PhiUreme lliil.n., Verz., 330, 1818. 



Acidalia Treita. (in part), Schni. Ear., vi (ii), 52, 1-."-. 



Scototia Steph., Noniencl. Br. Ins.. 1 1, 1829; "Cat. Br. Lep., ii, L39, 1829." 



Larmtia Dnp. (in part), Lep. France, \ iii (v), 308, 1830. 



Scotoma Steph., III., iii, 259, 1831. 



Larentia Boisd. (in part), Gen. Iml.. 204, 1840. 



H.-Sch., Scbm. Eur., iii. 141, 1847. 

 Scototia (iiii-ii. (in part), Phal., ii. 44o, 1857. 



Staudinger, Cat., 78, 1861. 



Walk, (in part), Lisl Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xxv, 1342, 1862. 



Head rather narrow between the eyes, with an interpalpal tuft. Palpi 

 rather long and slender, projecting well in front of the head; third joint free 

 from the second. Male antennae scarcely ciliated. Fore wings subfalcate, 

 with the apex much produced and very acute; outer edge very oblique, 

 slightly scalloped. Hind wings short, much produced toward the apex, which 

 is much more acute than in Hydriaor Triphosa; outer edge deeply scalloped, 

 more so than usual; males with an expansion ol the inner edge, and a long, 

 narrow brush of hairs below ; the first subcostal venule is long, the second 

 and third short, their origins remote from that of the first; two subcostal 

 cells. Hind legs, with the tarsi, as long as the tibiae. Male abdomen large 

 and stout, thick, with a large, infra-anal, broad, long tuft appressed to the side 

 before the thick conical extremity. Coloration : dark, with numerous indis- 

 tinct common lines, and an extradiscal heavier line common to both wings. 



This fine genus differs from Hydria or Triphosa in the acute fore wings 

 and hind wings. From Hydria it differs also in the longer palpi, the much 

 smaller hind wings, and in both pairs being scalloped. The ear-like projec- 

 tion on the inner edge of the hind wing is much as in that genus. The 

 species differ in the degree of acuteness of the fore wings and of the scallop- 

 ing. In P. albosignata, the outer edge of the hind wings is bent a little, 

 where it is not so in /'. meadiata. 



Synopsis oj the Species. 



The smallest species; dark, with :i distinct, whitish, extradiscal, scalloped line; hind 



win ys lint Blightlj Scalloped P. albosignata. 



Very dark ; a little larger than albosignata : hind wiogs more scalloped P. califomiata 



A distinct, dark, extradiscal line : bind w ings with ii\ e large scallop3 P. meadiata. 



PHILEEEME AXBOSIGNATA Packard. Plate 9, fig. 14. 



tpteryx intestinata Walk. ! ! ! (in part), List Lep. Het. Br. Mas., xxv. 1 '■'•:','. 1862. 

 i albosignata Pack., Fifth Rep. Peah. Acad. Sc, 61, 1873. 



4 i and 2 9. — In this species, (he tore wings are entire, the hinder pair 



