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P. diva 11. sp. — Expands .35-38 mm. Palpi slender, pon-ect, rather long, firay. 

 spaltiTfd witli dark scales; front, thorax and ahdonien K'"a.v, with like dark scales 

 intiM'niixed, these rather niore dense on anterior i)art of thorax ; fore wings gray 

 more or less powdered with blackish scales; a faint blackish basal line evident, 

 deeply angled outwardly at middle and not reaching inner margin ; middle field 

 darkening outwardly, forming against the gray outer field a scalloj>ed edge, the 

 dentations being inward and on the %'eins, the posterior being the deeper, and 

 the general trend of the line being away from outer margin ; posteriorly the line 

 stoi)s at fold between veins 1 and 2, and, going towards base, joins the basal ; outer 

 field with a rather broad darkening along margin, and a black marginal line; 

 fringe white, blackened outwardly at ends of veins; discal spot large, oval, 

 black ; hind wings even gray, translucent, slightly darker outwardlv ; marginal 

 line blackish, fringe gray; discal spot dark, small, faint; beneath fore wings 

 gray, darker ba.sally, and with submarginal darker band ; marginal line bhutk. 

 fringe as aiiove ; hind wings' gray at base, darkening into a broail band on outer 

 half; discal spots faint ; legs and abdomen beneath dark gray. 



C'aliforuia, from Dr. Riley, taken in Argus Mountains. 



30. EX Y PI. 4 n. gen. 

 Type venatd (xrt. 

 Palpi moderate, porreet, rough scaled ; tongue developed ; front 

 clo.'^e scaled, I'oiinded ; antenn;e of % flattened, nearly naked, lamel- 

 late ; thorax hairy above, woolly below, femora with fringe of hairs. 

 Al)domen smooth ; hind tibi;B scarcely swollen, with hair pencil in 

 % , with all spurs ; fore wings with fov^ea below in % , small, close 

 to base, 12 veins, K* stemmed vvith 11 at base; hind wings, ■) unde- 

 veloped, 6 and 7 separate, 8 separate from cell ; all wings broad, 

 even, rounded. 



Species. — E. venata Grt. 



E. peranrjulntn Hulst, n. sp. 



E. peraiigiililta u. sp. — Expands 38-42 mm. In many resi>ects like E. 

 veniita Grt., and i)robably its representative in ('olorado. The ground color is 

 much darker, being dark gray instead of whitish, and the space between the 

 cn)ss-lincs evenly blackish gray. The lines run the .same on the fore wings, and 

 there is the same row of black points on the hind wings, though fainter and 

 sometimes ob.solete in E. peraugnlafa ; both fore and hind wings are narrower 

 than in E. veiinta, and the insects has considerably the appearance of Xepytiu 

 ■lemidnsiiria Walk . 



Colorado, from ]\Ir. Hruce and Dr. (Jillette. 



31. PHILEDIA n.gen. 



Type punctomacidaria Hulst. 



l*all)i short, slender ; tongue developed; front smooth; antennre 



pectinated in S to apex, pectinations rather short; summit of head 



with something of an overhanging scale tuft ; thorax loosely scaled. 



TKANS. AM. KNT. SOC. X.\III. SEPTEMKER, 1896. 



