AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 3G9 



the sjime course the red is mixed with yellow, followed again with a strip of 

 yellow reaching from near apex to vein 3; within the first yellow hand, and 

 without the second one, are single lines, deep red, with dark scales intermixed, 

 following the same general course, the inner stniighter, the outer with deeper 

 loop, the outer beginning at the deei> ^'*^'^ apex, and both continuing to base ; the 

 inner inwardly, and the outer outwardly, are shaded with violet ])inkish ; bind 

 wings reddish yellow, lighter towards base, more yellowish anteriorly, more red- 

 dish about anal angle; a deeper reddisli line starting within anterior angle, 

 rounding close to outer margin, then turning inwardly to middle of anal margin ; 

 beneath as above, but fainter, but with apex of fore wings bright orange-red. 



From Mr. Bruce, Colorado. 



A most beautiful insect. DiHerent in its style of ornamentation 

 from any other American Geometer that I know. 



77. ANAGOGA Iliib. 

 Verz. 294, 1818. 



Type pulverata L. 

 Asinuphoni Steph., Cat. 12(J, 1829, type pulverata L. 

 Numeria Dup.. Lep. Fr. viii, 107. 1829, type pulverata L. 



Palpi moderately long, ascending, heavily scaled, end member 

 very small ; front tufted ; tongue developed ; antennie of S bipec- 

 tinate to apex, pectinations tiliform, of 9 deeply serrate, almost 

 pectinated ; thorax hairy above, woolly below ; abdomen loosely 

 scaled, untufted ; wings broad, sven, rounded ; fore wings without 

 fovea below, 12 veins, 6 separate, 10 and 1 1 from cell separate from 

 each other as well as from 12 and 9; hind wings 5 undevelo[)ed, 8 

 separate from cell ; hind tibitB not swollen, with all spurs, without 

 hair pencil in % . 



Species. — ^1. occiduaria Walk. 



78. 3f EOTKKI»K» n. gen. 



Type ephelidaria Hulst. 



Pali)i ascending, rather long; tongue strong; front close scaled, 

 sligiitly tufted ; antennae bipectinate in both sexes, in % almost to 

 ai)ex ; thorax hairy scaled above, slightly hairy below; abdomen 

 scaled, untufted; hind tibise of Z swollen, with hair j)encil, with all 

 spurs present; fore wings slightly angulate on outer margin, witiiout 

 fovea l)el()w, 12 veins, 10 and 11 from (^ell ; hind wings round, or 

 scarcely angled, 5 undeveloped, and 7 stemmed, 8 separate from 

 cell. 



This may be the .same as Sictjodes "Wai-r., i)ut the description, 

 " like Sicya GuvM., but with the 9 antenme pectinateil, though more 



TRANS. AM. KST. SOC. XXIII. (47) SKPTfcMKKR. 1896 



