AMERICAN LEPIDOl'TERA, 367 



A>fpil(iiei< Treits., and so witli his (leteniiination A.yri/dfes would be 

 a synonym of this jxcnus. But Treitschivo did not have that i<lea of 

 his genus. He had under it discordant material, l)iit none of the 

 earlier named species ap})ly here. The first is purpnrarid Linn., and 

 this may he taken as the type of Aipilates. This is ordinarily cata- 

 logued as LytJivla, hut as Mr. Meyrick remarks, Lythria is a syno- 

 nym of Botijx Latr. afterwards applied, but without right, to a genus 

 of the Pyralidie. 



Mr. Warren, Nov. Zool. vol. i, 437, 1894, calls attention to the 

 fact that mundnfaria Cr. has hi pectinate antennae in 9 , thus sei)a- 

 rating it from this genus, and calls it Mega-yjilates. But miindaturia 

 Cr. is type of Conchia Hub. Verz. 337, 1818, which, of course, has 

 priority. 



Species'. - D. orciferata Walk. 



73. I.Yl'IIXOSEA Grt. 

 Trans. Kans. Acad. Sci. viii, 52, 1883. 



Type hehiobiria Hulst. 

 Palj)i long, porrect, heavily scaled ; tongue developed ; front hair 

 tufted ; antennae of Z bipectinate, apex simple ; thorax hairy scaled ; 

 abdomen slender, smooth ; legs long, slender ; hind tibiae long, not 

 swollen, without hair pencil, with two pairs of spurs in both sexes; 

 fore wings even, rounded, without fovea at base in S , 12 veins, 10 

 on 9, 11 from cell, 6 and 7 stemmed; hind wing^ (J and 7 stemmed, 

 5 undeveloped, 8 separate from cell. 

 Species. — L. helviolaria Hulst. 

 L. iutermlcntn Walk. 



74. SPII.KCKI.ODES Guen. 



Phal. ii, 116, 1857. 



Type vulneraria Hiib. 

 Broth Hiib., Verz. 303, 1818, type ridneraria Hiib. 



Palpi stout, porrect or subascending, heavily clothetl ; tongue de- 

 veloped ; front hair tufted ; antennae bipectinate in ?>, pectinations 

 moderate, the bases of the anteniue very close together, almost 

 touching ; thorax densely haired above and below ; abdomen smooth ; 

 hind tibitc not swollen, without hair pencil, with two pairs of spurs 

 in both .sexes; fore wings 12 veins, 10 on 9, 11 from cell; hind wings 

 all veins separate, 8 close to cell one-half its length then diverging 

 at a sharj) angle. 



TRAN.S. AM. KNT. SOC. XXIII. SEPTEMBER. l»9t>. 



