100 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



semilucent pale band, after crossing costa, curves outward around cell, 

 and is lost at middle of wing. Secondaries with a faint roseate hue at 

 outer apical margin, without markings of any kind. All wings above and 

 below without discal dots or marginal lines. Fringes rather long, pink» 

 sprinkled towards apices with black scales, which tend to gather at end 

 of veins. Beneath, the primaries, over cell to extradiscal luteous band, 

 outlining this rather sharply, and beyond this band a well-defined apical 

 triangle reaching to centre of outer margin, are heavily dusted with roseate 

 scales, the rest of the surface being entirely clear. Secondaries, without 

 markings of any kind, are evenly and finely dusted with roseate. 



Type, one female taken at La Puerta, Calif., Oct. 15th, 1911, is in 

 the author's collection. The immaculate under side of secondaries is quite 

 unusual, 



Parexcelsa, nov. gen. 



Palpi very small. Tongue obsolete. Front flat, finely shagreened, 

 opaque, margined above between the orbits by a fine polished ridge, the 

 edge apparently of the projecting vertex, vi^hich is slightly elevated between 

 the pedicellate bases of the antennae, these, together with the whole upper 

 suj-face, being black and highly polished. Antennae long, bipectinate to 

 apex, where they are shortened so abruptly as to give a blunt appearance. 

 Thorax and abdomen untufted. Legs normal, the hind tibiae not swollen, 

 without hair-pencil, and having two pairs of spurs. All wings somewhat 

 extended, the outer margins rounded and slightly crenulate, without basal 

 foveœ. Fore wings 12 veins, with 8 and 9 stalked on 7 and with each 

 other, all others free. No accessory cell. Hind wings with costal margin 

 concave, vein 8 parallelling cell for a short distance at or before centre, 

 and showing a vestige of vein 5 toward outer margin; 3 and 4 are widely 

 separate, and 6 and 7 from point. 



Type. — Parexcelsa ultraria Pears. 



This genus, by the faint trace of vein 5, shows a Hydriomenid 

 tendency, but is, in my judgment, best retained among the Ennominse, 

 next to Hulstina Dyar. 



Parexcelsa ultraria, n. sp. 



Expanse, 28-30 mm. Palpi very short, hairy ; pale gray. Antennae 

 stout, the shaft white, with pectinations dark gray. Front covered with a 



