328 GEORGE D. HULST. 



atoms within the outer space are not so dense, and the color is therefore of a 

 much lighter gray, at the same time the darker margin is not so broad. 

 Male and leniale, Calg-aiy, Canada, from Mr. Wolly-Dod. 



I). f'liiiiOMa u. sp. — Expands 35-40 mm. Antennae long, plumose, dark fus- 

 cous ; jialpi fuscous brown; head fuscous; thorax and abdomen fuscous brown, 

 the thorax darker and stained anteriorly with violet. Wings fuscous brown with 

 a violet tint, the outer field in both wings considerably lighter than the rest, 

 which is evenly colored ; basal line blact, not distinct on dark field, sharply and 

 evenly rounded ; a dark line across the wing at center of middle field, indistinct, 

 somewhat rounded, extending across hind wing: outer line obsolete, its place 

 showing by the contrast of the color of middle and outer fields; this edge dis- 

 tinct, sinuous, bending out at 5, bending out again between 3 and 4, between 1 

 and 2 turning in again to margin ; an indistinct broken line in middle of outer 

 field parallel with outer margin inwardly shown by blackish, outwardly by 

 whitish scales; hind wings with edging continued, undulate; a black apical dash 

 on fore wings with reddish brown tint about it; hind wings becoming reddish 

 brown towards outer margin; discal spots on fore wings white; beneath quite 

 even brownish with ocher tint, lines very faint or obsolete ; discal spots on all 

 wings black. 



Colorado, Utah, California. Near to Gnqphos haydenata Pack., 

 and consideral)ly like it in appearance. Faded specimens show the 

 cross-lines moj-e sharply, the outer field comparatively lighter and 

 lose most, if not all, of the violet-brown tinge. The line in outer 

 field shows across both wings in dark dots. 



11. EFIISE.IIASIA n. gen. 

 Type cervinaria Pack. 



Palpi short, porrect ; tongue developed ; front smooth ; antennae 

 flattened in % , filiform in $ ; thorax and abdomen smooth ; legs 

 smooth ; hind til)iie with two pairs of spurs, swollen and without 

 hair pencil in % ; fore wings 12 veins, 5 very weak, not tubular, 

 \b bent upward and rounded just beyond base, 6 and 7 widely sepa- 

 rate, 10 on 8, 11 from cell; hind wings, 5 undeveloped, b separate 

 from cell. 



The special distinction is the curving of vein \b of fore wings, 

 which takes the form of being parallel with submedian, and then 

 turning away from it an angle. It is caused by an incomplete fovea 

 posterior to 1 b. 



Species. — E. morbosa Hulst, n. sp. 

 E. cervinaria Pack. 



E. lliurbuiiia n. sp.— Expands 26 mm. Palpi ochreoiis; front ochreous, 

 tinged with fuscous; thorax and abdomen ocher fuscous, the latter spotted with 

 dark atoms towards end. Wings even, dull ocher, or pale buff, spotted quite 

 evenly, but irregularly all over with small blackish blotches and blackish atoms ; 



