344 GEORGE D. HUL8T. 



Abdomen smooth ; legs smooth, hiud tibite of % swollen, with hair 

 pencil in % , two pairs of spnrs present in both sexes ; fore wings 

 even, withont fovea below, 12 veined, 10 and 11 from cell, 12 sepa- 

 rate ; hind wings all veins separate, 5 undeveloped, 8 separate from 

 cell. 



Species. — P. punctomacularia Hulst. 



32. I^EPYTIA n. gen. 

 Type semidusaria Walk. 



Palpi moderate or small, not heavy ; tongue developed ; front 

 broad, rounded, close scaled ; antennse of % pectinated to apex, of 

 9 filiform ; thorax hairy scaled above, loose haired below. Abdo- 

 men smooth ; legs slender, hind tibiae slightly swollen, without hair 

 pencil in S ; fore wings with fovea below close to base in Z , 12 

 veins, 10 and 11 from cell; hind wings 5 undeveloped, 6 and 7 

 separate, 8 separate from cell ; all wings even, rounded. 

 Species. — N. nigrovenaria Pack. 

 N. semidusaria Walk. 

 N. umbrosata Pack. 



23. AL.riS Curt. 

 Brit. Ent. iii, 303, 1825. 



Type reprmdata Linn. 

 Hesperumia Pack., Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist, xvi, 37, 1874, tyi)e. 



Palpi moderate, sometimes quite long, and sometimes quite short, 

 porrect or subascending, rather rough scaled ; tongue developed ; 

 front scaled, sometimes tufted; antennae of % bipectinate, apex 

 simple, the pectinations generally clavate, sometimes filiform, mod- 

 erate or short, always gradually shortening to simple apex, the an- 

 tennae never plumose, of $ filiform or serrate ; thorax scaled or 

 hairy scaled, rarely tufted posteriorly, somewhat hairy below. Ab- 

 domen scaled ; hind tibiae swollen, with hair pencil in 1 , with all 

 spurs; fore wings 12 or 11 veins, varying in the same species, 11 

 being often or generally absent, with fovea below in % ; hind wings 

 5 undeveloped, 6 and 7 sepai'ate, 8 separate from cell, the wings 

 rounded, rarely wavy or somewhat angulato. 



yl/c('.s- and Cleova are very near each othcu', and wiiile the various 

 species included under them are very different in su[)erficial appear- 

 ance, I find it difficult to find any structural characteristic which 

 will distinctly separate them. Aids generally has shorter pectina- 

 tions to the % antenme; they are generally clavate and always 



