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I ])lace this genus here doiihtfully, us T am not altogether sure it 

 is a Geometer. The venatioil of the hind wings is about as much 

 like that of the Sterrhinae as of this subfamily, but, in other respects 

 while peculiar, it seems better placed here. I have no S , and can 

 give only the chai-acter of the S antenna?, which was the onl}' 

 structual character of the % given by Mr. Grote. 

 Species. — M. aariciiictarinm Grt. 



2. SYXOWILA n.gen. 

 Type imbuchreata Hulst. 



Palpi shoi-t, slender ; tongue obsolete ; front flat ; antennie filiform 

 pubescent in both sexes; hind legs without spurs, weak, somewhat 

 aborted in % ; fore wings one accessory cell, 12 veins, 6 separate ; 

 hind wings 8 veins, 3 and 4 separate, 6 and 7 stemmed, 8 with cell 

 nearly to middle. 



Species. — S. subochreata Hulst. 



3. H.£.nATOPSIS Hiib. 

 Verz. 301, 1818. 



Type grataria Fab. 



Palpi short, slender; tongue developed ; front bulging, flattened; 

 antenme strongly bi})ectinate in S , simj)le in 9 ; hind tibiie with 

 two pairs of spurs in both sexes; fore wings, one accessory cell, 12 

 veined, 6 separate ; hind wings 8 veins, 3 and 4 separate, 6 and 7 

 stemmed ; 8 joined with cell, hut separating before middle. 

 Species. — H. grataria Fab. 



4. PAOT.4. n. gen. 

 Type fitUaria Grt. 



Palpi moderate, slender, porrect ; front flattened, scaled, untufted ; 

 tongue developed ; antenna; shortly bipectinate in % , w-ith a fascicle 

 of hairs on each pectination ; hind tibiie with all spurs ; foi'e wings 

 12 veins, one accessory cell, 6 and 7 separate; hind wings 8 veins, 

 o and 4 separate, 6 and 7 stemmed, 8 joined with cell nearly to 

 middle. 



Species. — P. f altar ia Grt. 



STERRHIN^. 



The Sterrhime are a grou}) separated by the peculiar merging of 

 vein 8 of hind wings with the cell. They are, in the main, small, 

 frail insects, and in the more specialized forms show decided {)ecu- 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXIII. AUGUST, 1896. 



