Dec.x9oo.] HuLST: NEW SpECIES OF LePIDOPTERA. ^lO 



NEW SPECIES OF LEPIDOPTERA. 



By Geo. D. Hulst. 

 GEOMETRID^. 

 Tephroclystis insolabilis, sp. nov. 



Palpi Ion., heavilv haired, drooping, blackish or fuscous gray; front tufted, 

 .ordidtsco:: gray ; fo. .ings long, rather narrow, of a soft, even ^--s gra>^^^^^^ 

 lines slightly marked along costa, very faint across the wing ; hmd -^.^^g^ 'n aU 

 as fore :ings, with faint indications of lines on inner margu. ; marginal hnes on 

 l-Ils lllckish ; no discal spots ; the hind wings are short, wavy on outer margin, the 

 anal angle quite prominent. Expands 20-22 mm. 



Arizona. 

 Tephroclystis flebilis, sp. nov. 



r-vlpi front and antennx- dark fuscous; thorax fuscous in front, fuscous gray be- 

 hind bdomn gray, laterally almost white; fore wings narrow, elongated, fuscous 

 rke'r alnos bfacl^;h along'costa, and more broadly along outer r^^^^J^ 

 I^ll field, the black of the costa broken as showing the eginnmg o cr s n 

 .nd broadened into a subquadrate spot within outer line, the black sh bioken bj 

 "•tish sea e basal line scarcely evident ; outer line broad, indeterminite, whitish ; 

 an ot scTll'oped dentate white line on outer field parallel with margin; hmd 

 "ngsrath small, rounded, fuscous, the beginnings of lines showing along inne 

 TrlL marginal lines on all wings black, more or Wss broken ; beneath much as 

 above but with a broad, rounded line on hind wings. Expands 24 mm. 



Sitka, Alaska, from the Harriman Expedition. Collected by 1 . 

 ^ Kincaid, June 16. The National Museum type number is 49^0. 

 Cysteophora, gen. nov. 



Palpi small; front slightly rounded ; antenn. of ^ ^^^'^ ^-^y;^^:;^:;;; 

 .horax L abdomen smooth ; fore wings elonga. ou.r -J'" — ^^^ 



tZ. t:; r:L:r t! tS. sea..;!; stoker than the tarsi and all spurs wanting. 



' The genus is a peculiar one among its congeners in lacking the 

 spurs on the hind tibi^, and in a tendency as in some of the Ster- 

 rhin« and Geometrin«. towards obolescence of the leg itself ; the pouch 

 on the hind wings is also peculiar. 

 Cysteophora pervertipennis, sp. nov. 



Palpi ochre fuscous; front fuscous; summit whhish ochre; antenna, ochre; 



