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Genus LOMANALTES Grote. 

 Lomanaltes Grote, Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci., vol. 1, 1873, p. 14, pi. 1, figs. 12, 13. 



Male. — Palpi long, porrect, fringed above. Antennae ciliate. 

 Frons with pointed tuft. Abdomen with dorsal tufts. Body below 

 and legs smooth. Forewings moderately broad; costa somewhat 

 depressed medially; outer margin obliquely rounded; veins 3, 4, 5 

 equally apart; 7, 8 and 9, 10 from areole. 



Ty2)e of genus. — Lomanaltes laetulus Grote = Ilypena eductalis 

 Walker/ the latter name having priority. 



Genus PLATHYPENA Grote. 



Plathypcna Grote, Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci., vol. 1, 1873, p. 38. 



Male. — Palpi porrect, second and third joints densely scaled. 

 Antennae minutely ciliate. An acute frontal tuft. Abdomen with 

 dorsal tufts on basal half. Thorax below hairy. Legs smooth. 

 Forewings narrow; outer margin obliquely rounded; inner margin 

 produced at tornus; veins 7, 8 and 9, 10 from areole. Hind wings 

 very broad; costal margin straight; veins 3 and 4 from lower angle; 

 5 slightly above angle; 6 and 7 from upper angle. 



Type of genus.— -Hyhloea scahra Fabricius.^ 



Genus HYPENA Sehrank. 



Eypena Sciirank, Fauna Boica, vol. 2, pt. 2, 1802, p. 163. 



Male. — Palpi porrect long, heavily fringed above; an acute frontal 

 tuft. Antennae minutely ciliated. Abdomen with only basal dorsal 

 tuft prominent. Forewings narrow ; tornus not produced; otherwise 

 as Plaihypena. 



Genus BOMOLOCHA Hubner. 

 Bomolocha IIubner, Verz., 1816, 343. 



Male. — Palpi porrect; second joint twice the length of head, well 

 ffinged below, less so above; third joint one- third the length of sec- 

 ond, shortly fringed below, with a few long hairs above, the tip naked. 

 Antennae with short even ciliae. Frons with acute tuft. Thorax 

 below hairy. Abdomen above with dorsal tufts. Forewings: Veins 

 3, 4, 5 equally apart; 7, 8 and 9, 10 from areole. 



Type of genus. — Crassalis Fabricius. 



The genus includes the following species described under Ilypena, 

 except umhralis Smith, described as a Bomolocha. 



Bomolocha exoletalis Guen6e, Delt. et Pyral., 1854, p. 29 = lyrcv^alis 

 Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., vol. 19, 1859, p. 842 = a^nmZis Moschler, 



» Cat. Brit. Mus., vol. IG, 1858, p. 36. ^ Ent. Syst. Suppl., vol. 4, 1794, p. 448. 



