282 GEORGE D. HULST. 



rtecks beyond ; outer lines most prominent, jreminate, gray, sinused outwardly 

 ))etween veins 5 and 2, dentate wavy all their length : ^ subniarginal, faint, wavy 

 trray line : fringes color of wings with lighter intermissions; hind wings rather 

 satiny white, slightly stained with fuscous and with black atoms basally and 

 along inner margin : beneath dull white on all wings, fuscous stained along costa, 

 speckled with black scales basally on fore wings and all over hind wings with 

 large blackish spot at apex of fore wings divided by whitish line, all wings with 

 black discal spots. 



Southern California. 



30. l»ERCX«l»TILOTA n. gen. 

 Type fliiviata Hub. 

 Plemi/rie Hiib., Verz. 334. 1818, tyyte flnr lata Hiib. 



Palpi rather long, porrect ; tongue developed ; front with conical 

 tuft of scales ; antennae of Z filiform, with fascicles of hairs on 

 each segment ; thoi'ax without posterior tuft. Abdomen tufted at 

 end ; hind tibi?e with two pairs of spurs ; fore wings 12 veined, two 

 accessory cells; hind wiugs 8 veins, B and 7 stemmed, 8 with cell to 

 beyond middle. 



Plemyrie Hiib., ap[)lied to this species, is preoccupied by Plemyria 

 Hiib., the names being the same, one partially, the other entirely 

 latinized. 



Species. — P. fluvbtta Hiib. 



31. MESOLEUCA Hiib. 

 Verz. 326, 1818. 



Type (dbicillafa Linn. 

 Glaucopteryx Hiib., Verz. 332. 1818, type cxsiala Lang. 

 Melanthia Dup., Hist. Nat. viii, 252, 1829, type procellata Fab. 

 Camptogramma Steph., 111. iii, 263, 1831, type bilineata L. 



Pal{)i moderate ; front with tuft of s(;ales ; tongue developed ; an- 

 tenuic <)f % filiform ciliate ; thorax with or without posterior tuft. 

 .Vbdonien sometimes tufted at end; hind tibia' with all spurs, fore 

 wings with two accessory cells, 12 veins; hind wings 8 veins, (> and 

 7 stemmed, 8 with cell to beyond middle. 



Species : — 

 M. rujicUidia Guen. M. .nlaceata var. (Jeflaviifa Stand. 



M. graiulata Walk, (brunneicil- M. albolincnta Pack. 

 M. ccesiata Bork. [lata Pack.) M. sv^spectata Moesch. 

 M. lariidntta (Juen. 31. hersiliatd Guen. 



J/, brninieunaculata Bates. M. ethela Hulst, n. sp. 



M. friuicafii Hiib. M. vasaliata (lUen. 



