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present family, as is the whole aspect of the s{)eeies. Mr. Meyriek 

 explains these as anonialons forms in wliieh the posterior wall of the 

 se(!ou(l accessory cell has become obsolete ; he therefore speaks of 

 the insect as having two accessory cells in fore wings. Zeiiophlep-s 

 differs from Cataclysme Hiib. in having bipectinate antennio in the % . 

 Species. — Z. lu/Nicolonifa Pack. 



Z. obxcarata Hulst, n. sp. 



Z. 4»bsciirata n. sp. — Exiiands 2i\ iiiiii. Palpi ocliieous I>n)\vii, t)lackisli 

 towards eud ; head ochreous fuscous, with thdrax and abdomen of same color; 

 fore wiii^s grayish, well mixed with blackish scales, and with many not very 

 decided blackish cross-lines, and the whole washed with yellow ochreous, espe- 

 cially on the outer third ; the lines are arranged in three bands, the first basal, 

 the second median within the black discal s])ot, the third beyond the discal spot; 

 they all are lighter between the limiting lines, are quite evenly rounded out- 

 wardly, pretty evenly dentate on both sides the middle one being the most even ; 

 the outer one has two or three little white spots outwardly at veins 2. 3 and 4: 

 outer space arranged in two or three lighter and darker bands, sharply and evenly 

 dentate; a line of black margin.al spots; fringe concolorous with outer part of 

 wing ; hind wings corresponding very much to pattern of fore wings, hut all basal 

 markings lost, and middle band showing in a rounded, distinct, blackish line; 

 beneath fuscous gray, the bands on both wings showing in deeper color, rather 

 solid and quite decidedly manifest in a broad marginal band on both wings. 



One male, Siskiyou County, California. 



29. E:V€H0RI.\ n. gen. 

 Type ONvnInta Hulst. 



Palpi short, rough, hairy; front rough scaled, scarcely tufted; 

 tongue developed ; antennne of I flattened, dentate, finely ciliate 

 below ; thorax with a double anterior tuft, and also a low posterior 

 tuft. Abdonien slightly tufted at end ; hind tibise with two pairs 

 of spurs; fore wings two accessory cells, 12 veins; hind winys S 

 veins, 6 and 7 stemmed, 8 with cell to beyond middle. 



Differs from Giipmchron Hiib. in that the antennae are eveidv 

 ciliate, not fascicled with hairs. 



Species. — E. osculata Hulst, n. sp. 



E. OMCiilata n. sp.— Expands 24 mm. Palpi, front and thorax fuscous, with 

 black scales intermixed, the whole vestitnre being squamoso and ditfiise. Abdo- 

 men diti'ise. fuscous, the first segment being more blackish and the fourth blackish 

 doi-sally ; fore wings fuscous, the whole surface covered with more or less faint, 

 dentiite, or wavy lines, parallel with the rounded outer margin : these siiow most 

 decidedly by a faint basal cross-band, somewhat darker than the ground color, 

 edged inwardly and outwardly by a more grayish color, the dentiitioiis of tiir 

 outer lines marked with black ou veins ; discal spots prominent black with whitisii 



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