368 GEORGE 1). IIULST. 



BrotU Hub. is i)re()C('U])ie(l by Hiibner himself, he having given 

 the name previously to another genus of Lepidoptera. The genus 

 is a very peculiar one in the position of the antennse ; the single 

 species has a decided resemblance to the genus EadamnH of the Rho- 

 palocera, and is probably a day flyer. 



75. STEKGAMAT^A n. gen. 

 Type inornata Hulst. 



Palpi moderately long, recurved, reaching well towards sunnnit 

 of head ; tongue strong ; antennae of 9 Aliform ; front rounded ; 

 thorax hairy scaled, hairy below ; abdomen scaled ; hind tibise with 

 all spurs; wings rather broad, even, rounded; fore wings 12 veins, 

 10 and 1 1 stemmed from cell ; hind wings 5 undeveloped, 6 and 7 

 separate, 8 separate from cell. 



I have the $ only. Its peculiarity, the recurved palpi, is a rare 

 form of structure in the family. 



Species. — S. inornata Hulst, n. sp. 



S. inornata n. sp. — Expands 48 mm. Palpi dark fnscous; front, thora.x 

 and ahduiuen whitish ocher stained with fuscous: all wings of the same color, 

 varying only enough to give faint suggestion of lighter cross-bauds basally and 

 outwardly, the limitations of these being scalloped and slightly darker; discal 

 spots fine, black; beneath slightly less ocher, and a broad outer fuscous band 

 parallel with outer margins on all wings. 



Female only, Colorado, from Mr. Bruce. 



7(). MELrEMJEA n. gen. 

 Type nuKjdalena Hulst. 

 Palpi moderate, subascending, rather slender, lightly scaled ; 

 tongue developed ; front rounded, conical, short .■scaled; antennae of 

 % bipectinate, apex simple; thorax and abdomen smooth; hind 

 tibiie of % not swollen, without hair pencil, with all spurs; fore 

 wings without fovea below, 12 veins, 10 from a point with 6 and 9 

 at end of cell, 1 1 from cell ; hind wings rounded, 5 undeveloped, 6 

 and 7 stemmed, 8 separate from cell. 



Species. — M. tnagdalena Hulst, n. sp. 

 3/. inorsicaria Hulst. 



^^I. magdalcua n. sp. — Expands 35 mm. Palj)] ocher yellow, reddish on 

 outside; front reddish yellow; antennse yellow fuscous, end of pectinations mucii 

 darker; thorax yellowish, as is also the abdomen, but the latter has a reddish 

 tinge dorsally ; fore wings reddish orange, lighter along costa, becoming straw- 

 yellow towards apex ; from costa just within apex this yellow reaches in a 

 rounded loop, broader at middle, to base at inner margin ; beyond this following 



