174 

 PHILEREME Hiibner. I'lair 1. Ilir. 13. 



Philcreme Hiibu., Verz., 330, 161S. 



.•I«*(/in Ti-eits. (iu purt), Schiii. Eiir., vi (ii), M, li3JH. 



Scolosia Steph., Nomeucl. Br. Iii.s., 44, ISM; "Cat. Br. L.-p.. ii, 139, 18*)." 



Lareulia Dup. (in part), Lep. Fraucc, viii (v), 3o8, 1^30. 



Scoiosia Stepb., 111., ili, S-jO, 1.s;U. 



Lareiitia Boisil. (in part), Geu. lud., 204, lrj40. 



H.-Seli., Scbm. Eur., iii, 141, 1847. 

 Seoiosia Giieii. (in part), Pbal., ii, 440, If-Tw. 



Stauilinger, Cat., 78, 18GI. 



Walk, (in part), List Lop. H.-t. lii\ .Miis., xxv, VM>, 1862. 



Head rather narrow between tlie eyes, with an interpalpal tuft. Palpi 

 rather long and slender, projecting well in front of the head ; tliird joint free 

 from the second. Male antenna; .scarcely ciliated. Fore wings subfalcate, 

 with Ihe ape.\ much produced and very acute; outer edge very ()l)rKpu', 

 slightly scalloped. ' Hind wings short, much produced toward the ape.x, which 

 is much more acute tliaii in Ht/driiiov Tri/>//()st/: outer edge deeply scalloped, 

 mori' so than usual; males witli an exjiansicui ot the inner edge, and a long, 

 narrow brush of hairs below; the first subcostal venule is long, the second 

 and third short, their origins remote from that of thetirst; two subcostal 

 cells. Hind legs, with the tarsi, as long as the tibiae. Male al)domen large 

 and stout, thick, with a large, infra-anal, broad, long tuft appressed to the side 

 before the thick conical extremity. Coloration: dark, with numerous indis- 

 tinct common lines, and an extradiscal heavier line common to both wings. 



This tine genus diOers from Hijdria or Tripltom in the acute fore wings 

 and hind wings. From Hijdria it diilers also in the longer palpi, the much 

 smaller hind wings, and in both pairs l)eing scalloped. The ear-like projec- 

 tion on the inner edge of the hind wing is much as in that genus. The 

 species differ in the degree of acuteness of the fore wings and of the scallop- 

 ing. In P. albo.signata, the outer edge of the hind wings is bent a little, 

 where it is not so in P. meadiata. 



Synojjsis of the Species. 



Tlio smallest species; dark, with a distinct, wbitisb, u.Ktradiscal, scalloped line; hind . 



wings l)nt slightly scalloped P. aUiosignaia. \ 



Very dark ; a little larger than alboaUjnata ; hind wings more scalloped /'. califoniiata "X 



A distinct, dark, extradiscal line; hind wings with five large scallops P. mcadiatn. lu 



Phileeeme albosignata Ptu'kard. Plate 9, tig. 14. 



I'MhahtiiUrijj- hilrnlhiatii Walk. ! ! ! (in Jiart), List Lep. Het. Br. iMus., xxv. 1337, 186-2. 

 .Sivtmia tiU/osKjiiala Pack., Filth Kep. I'cab. Acad. Sc, 61, 1873. 



4 (? and 2 9. — In this speeies, the fore wings are entire, ihe hinder pair 



