AMUKICAN LKiniKU'TEKA. 359 



00. EPI.nECIK Iliib. 

 Verz. 315, 1818. 



Type hortaria Fab. 

 Bronrhelia (Jucn., IMial. i, 287, IH.")?, type hortaria Fah. 



l'al[)i nitlicr sliort, stout, rough .scaled; tongue strong; front 

 scaled, slightly tufted ; anteniue of % bi|)ectinate, apex simple, 

 bristled, and slightly fascicled, of 9 filiform with two long bristles 

 at summit of each segment; thorax scaled, uutufted, hairy below; 

 abdomen scaled ; hind tibiie slightly swollen, without hair j)encil in 

 S , with all spurs; fore wings with fovea below in %, , 12 veins, 10 

 and 11 from cell, separate from each other and 12; hind wings 5 

 undeveloped, (! and 7 separate, 8 .separate from cell and running 

 parallel with it nnich more shortly than usual, not more than one- 

 third its length ; all wings broad, rounded, the hind wingo deeply 

 .scallo})ed. 



Very close to Selidosemd, and scarcely to be separated from it. 



Species. — E. Jiortarla Fab. is probably Geometra virginiaria Ci'am. 



61. LiYCIA Hiib. 

 Verz. 319. 1818. 



Type hirtarins Clerck. 



Ainphidads Treit. Sch. Eur. vi. 1. 229, 1827, type hetularius L. 



Palpi moderate or short, long rough scaled ; tongue obsolete, or 



very short ; front densely haired, or long scaled; antenn;e of ?. bi- 



pectiuate, apex simple; thorax densely haired above and below, with 



slight antei'ior and posterior tufts ; abdomen densely hairy, without 



tuftings ; femora, tibise, sometimes tarsi, long haired ; hind tibiae with 



upper spurs generally obsolete, rarely very small ; fore wings without 



fovea at base in % ; hind wings 5 undeveloped, 8 separate from cell. 



Dirters from Bistoii Leach, of which stratiarius Hufn. is type, and 



of which Eubyja Hiib. is a synonym in the sim])le apex of antennae 



of I . 



Species. — L. ursaria Pack. 

 L. virginaria Grt. 

 L. cognataria Guen. 



62. PII.KOUR.4 n. gen. 

 Ty{>e mexicanaria Grt. 



Palpi moderate, slender, long haired ; tongue obsolete ; front 

 densely long haired ; antennie of %> bipectinate to apex, of 9 \\ itb 

 short pectinations, apex simple; thorax densely long scaled above, 



TKANS. AM. KNT. SOC. XXIU. SEPTEMBER. 1896. 



