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tioii with fascicle of liairs, apex simple; thorax and ahdonien scaled, 

 the latter tufted at end ; hind til)i;e of h with hair pencil, with all 

 spurs; fore wings with fovea helow in ^,12 or 11 veins, somewhat 

 waved on outer margin ; hind wings 5 undeveloped, (5 and 7 sepa- 

 rate, 8 separate from cell ; wing waved on outer margin forming 

 rounded, projecting angles at veins 3 and 4. 

 Species. — P. deplaiKiria Guen. 



30. SFODOLEPIS u. gen. 

 Type subxtriataria Hulst. 

 Palpi moderate, subascending, heavily scaled below ; tongue de- 

 veloped ; front very broad, rounded, smooth ; antennte of 9 hliform ; 

 thorax with long scales, with an anterior, dorsal, den.se, hair tuft, 

 and the patagi:e running out into long stemmed scales forming raised 

 tufts on each side ; abdomen snjooth ; hind tibite of 9 slightly 

 swollen, with two i)airs of spurs; fore wings decidedly arched at 

 shoulder, subfalcate, angled at vein 5, 12 veins, G .separate, 10 and 

 11 from cell, anastomosing with each other and with 9 and 12 ; hind 

 wings all veins separate, 5 undevelo})ed, 8 separate from cell. 



I have the 9 otdy. It is peculiar from the dor.sal tufting and 

 tufted ])atagiie. 



Species. — S. substrlaUirla Hulst, ii. s[). 



S. Miibstriataria n. sp. — p]xj)aii(ls 48 mm. Palpi, front and thorax dark 

 fuscous, thf tufts of the hitter white on end. Abdomen light fuscou.s, with a few 

 scattered black scales: fore wings fu.scous, showing a violet reflection in some 

 lights across the middle field, with quite thickly scattered, raised, black and white 

 scsiles; a basal black cross-line, edged within with raised white scales, with three 

 inward angles and three outward loops, the largest on cell ; an outer black line 

 edged outwardly with white scales, oblique from costa to vein (J following this 

 some distance, then at an angle turning down to 4 not far from outer margin, 

 then rounding back to 3, then with two more sinuses from 3 to 2 and 2 to inner 

 margin ; a blackish cloud on basal middle field on cell, and another below the 

 cell, a marginal line of intervenular black dashes, jjanillel with the veins; hind 

 wings light fuscous, black peppered, darker outwardly; beneath dull soi-did fus- 

 cous, the fore wings faintly showing the lines, the hind wings with dark fuscous 

 striations. 



One 9 . Francouia, N. H., from Mrs. Slosson. The insect ha.s 

 somewhat the appearance of Paraphia. 



37. STEXOTRACHELYS Guen. 

 I'hal. i, 290, 1857. 



Type approximaria Hiib. 



Palpi rather long, porrect, long and loosely .scaled ; tongue de- 

 velo[H'd ; fi-ont broad, bulging, loosely scaled ; antenna." bipeclinate 



TEANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXIU. SEPTEMBER. 18!»6. 



