1895.] 4J5 [Grote. 



upwards, in the female extended, shorter than in Herniinia ; accessory 

 cell aborted. There is apparently only one species : Polypogon barbalis. 



4. Male antennae specialized with long pectinations continuous to base ; 

 palpi long, extended forwards in both sexes, terminal joint recurved ; fore 

 legs untufted. There is apparently only one species : Herminia tentacu- 

 laria. 



5. Male antennae with lengthy pectinations, specialized at basal third, 

 thence to the base with pectinations obsolete ; palpi extended forwards or 

 slightly bent : Litognatha, absorptalis (nubilifascia), cribrumalis. The 

 genus Sisyrhypena is retained as distinct upon the wing shape, pattern 

 and color. Pallachira is apparently only different by ornamentation, 

 and may be united with Litognatha, or retained as distinct as a matter of 

 convenience. I do not know gryphalis or crinalis, and cannot make out 

 whether they belong to Chytolita or not. 



6. Male antennae not specialized, pectinate ; fore legs tufted ; palpi ex- 

 tended, variable in length : Philometra vietonalis, eumelusalis, derivalis. 



Hypena. 



1802. Schrank, Faxma Boica, ii, 163. Proboscidalis, rostralis, palpalis. 

 1816 (1825?). Hiibner, Verzeichniss, 345. Palpalis, decimalis, obsitalis, 



rostralis. 

 1874. Grote, List N. Am Nod. Bull. Buff. 8. N. S., 52. Takes rostralis 



as type, 

 I find no objection in literature to this course; the date is wrongly given 

 by me in 1874 as 1801 ; possibly the term is older than Schrank's work, 

 but I have not traced it. The Californian species are typical Hypena ; 

 evanidalis resembles more nearly obsitalis. The genus, as established by 

 Lederer, contains incongruous material. 



BOMOLOCHA. 



1816 (1825?). Hiibner, Verzeiehniss, 313. Crassalis (fontis) antiqualis, 

 terriculalis. 

 Lederer in 1857 uses this term for fontis alone, which thus becomes 

 type. 



1874. Grote, List N. Am. Noct. Bull. Buff. S. N. S., 51. Designates 

 crassalis (fontis) F. as type. 

 Hllbner's crassaZis Samml. is referred to obesalis ; but as he distinctly 

 .quotes Fabricius, species, which is fontis, in the Verzeiehniss, the true 

 crassalis Fabr. becomes type. 



Macrochilo 

 1816 (1825?). Hiibner, Verzeiehniss, 345. Tentaculalis, proboscidalis, rua- 

 ticalis, cnbralis. 

 Tentaculalis is taken by Polypogon ; proboscidalis (see Grt., List, 1874, 



