260 GEORGE D. HULST. 



with cell to beyond middle, G separate from 7 ; in % there is a folded 

 lobe at base on inner margin above ; frenulum present. 



Very close to Nyctobia, differing mostly in the presence of the 

 frenulum. It is separated from Lobophora in having only one pair 

 of spurs on hind tibite of % . From Talledega it differs in having 

 a hair pencil on hin^ tibiae of % . 



kSpecies. — A. eborata Hulst, n. .sp. 



A. eborata n. sp. — Expands 25 mm. Palpi loiio;, slender, drooj)ing, black, 

 a few white scales on extreme tip ; front fuscous gray ; thorax ocher fuscous, 

 bitufted posteriorly on each side dorsum, each tuft black in front. Abdomen 

 blackish gray, interlined, the first segment nearly black; fore wings whitish 

 ocher, a black basal line angulated at cell ; a broad median blackish band con- 

 sisting of black scales irregularly mixed with scales of ground color, somewhat 

 definitely limited on either side by black lines which are not continuous; inner 

 line dentate, marked outwardly with jet-black dashes on veins; outer line scal- 

 loped, marked inwardly bj- jet-black dashes on veins, separated from correspond- 

 ing dashes of median line by a central cross-line of ground color not sharply 

 defined ; the ground color divides the outer line at base of vdns 3 and 4, forming 

 a deep narrow sinus; the ground color also prevails narrowly behind subcostal 

 vein : two submarginal lines of black dots one on each vein, the whole space 

 clouded with blackish scales; hind wings even fuscous, with a faint extra discal 

 darker line, edged outwardly with lighter fuscous; beneath fuscous, somewhat 

 clouded, an outer lighter band parallel with margin showing on fore wings, and 

 an extra discal darker band sliowing on hind wings. 



Mitchell County, North Carolina, July, from Mr. Philip Laurent. 



7. T.4L,LEDEG/\ n. gen. 

 Type montanata Pack. 



Palpi short, porrect, or drooping ; front flat, short scaled ; antennse 

 filiform pubescent ; thorax untufted. Abdomen with slight tufts on 

 segments ; fore tibia? unarmed, hind tibiae with two pairs of spurs, 

 without hair pencil ; fore wing.s 12 veins, two accessory cells, (j 

 scarcely stemmed with 7 ; hind wings 8 vein.s, the inner margin in 

 the S being folded ov^er above, and this fold separated from wing 

 to base i'orming thus a detached piece over the posterior part of the 

 wing; venation conse(iucntly distorted ; 8 joined near base to cell, 

 and coincident to beyond middle. 



Very like L(>b<jj)hora Curt., differing in the absence of hair pencil 

 OH iiind tibiie <»f S . 



iSpecies. — T. montauida Pack. 



T. tubalata Hulst, n. sp. 



T. tabillalst n. sp. — Expands 28 mm. Aliout the size, and wings about the 

 shape of 7'. mimtanata Pack., to which, in apjiearai^ce. it is closely related ; palpi, 

 head and thorax blacikish gray. Abdomen more fuscous ; fore wings of a light 



