AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



nume I bluish fuscous 31 . ed especial] 



Hind wings and cilia dull br 15 millims. 



Six specimens in the collection of the Am. Ent. Soc. Philadelphia, 

 unfortunately all of them in very bad condition. So far as I can judge, 

 the markings and colour are almost exactly similar to those of the fol- 

 lowing species, also from Texas. 



KULKI'ISTK, gen. nov. 

 Head rough, maxillary palpi none, tongue non< . ocelli none. Labial 

 palpi ascending, with the second joint roughly clothed with coarse scales, 

 projecting beneath ; "terminal joint coarsely scaled, tapering to a blunt 

 point, about equal in length to the second joint Antennae (with the 

 basal joint thickened and coarsely scaled) slightly serrated and pilose 

 beneath. Anal appendages of the male greatly developed , the side 

 claspers elongate ovate, projecting well beyond the triangular pointed 

 upper shield, which is clothed with long scales; the anal segment with 

 short diverging bristles beneath. Fore wings: costa arched, apex 

 rounded, apical margin oblique, slightly convex ; dorsal margin nearly 

 parallel with the costal, but slightly emarginate before the anal angle ; 

 apical vein forked. Hind wings ovate, rather wider than the fore wings, 

 widest on the basal half, tapering outwards towards the rounded apex, 

 and not emarginate below it. Veins of <h>' fore wings twelve, not in- 

 cluding the false vein after vein 1 on the dorsal margin ; two of these 

 from the same stem ; cell closed. The vein running from the upper cor- 

 ner of the cell in the fore wings is forked, one branch ending on the 

 costal margin, and one in the apex. 



268-279. En!<*i»isit» cressoni, sp. nov.— Palpi brown, with ochreous 

 scales intermixed, the apical joint with an indistinct pale ochreous band around 

 its middle. Antenna' pale brown. Fore wings brown, with scattered purplish 

 fuscous and ochreous scales, the former collected in raised tufts, especially about 

 the dorsal margin; the latter aggregated in the form of three or four square 

 patches, one before, and one beyond thi middle of the dorsal margin, one about 

 the middle of the costa and one at or just before the apex. These in some s] 

 mens are so arranged as to form an indistinct chess-board pattern, the dark and 

 pale squares being alternate on the costal and dorsal halves of the wing; in some 

 specimens the median costal and thi antemedian dorsal pale squares, which are 

 :onspicuous, are joined in an angulated fascia. Abdo- 

 men with the h ad w 1 i ir cilia dull brown. The first two pairs oi 

 conspicuously spotted with In-own and ochreous, the third pair ochreous on the 

 tibiae, spotted with brown on the tarsal joints. Expanse 15 t^ 20 millim., the J 

 larger than the % . 



Several specimens in the collection oi the Am. Ent. 80c. Philadelphia, 

 from Texas. I have long possessed and known this species, but could 

 not believe it to be still undescribed, as it seems to be common in Texan 



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