252 GEORGE I). HULS'T. 



5. 01>HI<:R<»I*TI<:RA Hubn. 

 Verz. 321. 1818. 



Type briimafii L. 



Palpi short, porrect, slender ; anteniite of S dentate, with fascicles 

 of hairs on each segment; antenna? of $ filiform; front smooth; 

 tongue short, weak; hind tibise with all spurs; fore wings of <? 12 

 veins, one accessory cell, 6 long stemmed with 7, accessory cell large, 

 7, 8, 9 and 10 arising from at or near its end ; hind wings 8 veins, 

 8 and 4 widely separate, 5 nearer 4 than 6, 6 and 7 long stemmed, 

 8 with cell to beyond middle ; wings of 9 partly develo])ed extend- 

 ing about length of thorax ; body of $ somewhat vermiform ; 

 frenulum wanting. 



It is doubtful whether this species has even been taken within our 

 limits. I have never seen it myself to be certain of it, but Staud- 

 inger catalogues it, doubtfully from Greenland. 

 Species. — 0. boreata Hiibn. 



6. PARAPTERA ii. gen. 

 Type danhyi Hiilst. 



Tongue wanting ; [)alpi short, slender; antennae of % with seg- 

 ments round, even, each with two slender fascicles of hairs ; $ an- 

 tennse filiform ; clypeus untufted ; thorax and abdomen untufted, 

 in 9 m<)re closely joined, somewhat vermiform ; hind tibia? with one 

 pair of spurs only, or very rarely with u})per ])air slightly developed ; 

 fore wings of % 12 veins, with one accessory cell, 5 nearer 4 than 

 middle of cell, (i long stenuned with 7, cell large, la and lb both 

 present, strong; hind wings 5 much nearer 4 than middle of cell, B 

 and 7 long stemmed, S with cell more than half its length ; 9 with 

 wings partly aborted, these reaching somewhat beyond thorax, and 

 being about the size of the ordinary wings on emergence from puj>a ; 

 frenulum wanting. 



Very close to Opheroptera, differing in tongue, antennre of % , and 

 spurs of hind tibi:e, though in none of these in a very marked 

 degree. 



Species. — 1\ dniibt/l Ilulst, n. sp. 



P. llaiib.yi n. sp. % expands IJ6-40 nmj. — Pal])! fiiseous gniy above, edged 

 with gray to light gray beneath; elypeiis smoky black: anteniue fnseous, ligliter 

 towards end ; tliorax blacki-sli. with a lining to collar, patagise and ()osterior jwr- 

 tion of light gniy. Abdomen light gray with a fuscous shade sprinkled with a 

 few black scales, and with a shade of yellowish on anterior segment. Wings 

 crossed by a number of evenly sei)arated wavy black lines, the darker or ligliter 



