520 



tlic base, .slightly zigzag; second in the middle, islightly retracted near the 

 costa of the fore wings; a black point in the disk. Fore wings acute; 

 exterior border slightly angular in the middle. Ilind wings with the exterior 

 border acutely bidcutate in front. 



"Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 



"«. North America. From Mr. Carter's collection." 



AZELINA Gnenee. Plate 6, fig. 12 



(Jonodoiiliii Hub. (iu ii;irt), Saiuml. Exot. .ScLiiii., ii, 180G. 



Hiibu. (iu l);irt), Vera., 287, 1818. 

 Jzelliia Guen., Phiil., i, 150, IS.W. 



Walk., List Lop. Het. Br. Miis., xx, 185, 1860. 



Head square in front. Antennas simple, finely ciliated. Body rather 

 stout; abdomen of the male ending in a broad tuft. Fore wings falcate, 

 broad, the costa straight, until near the apex it becomes much curved and 

 the apex is acutely falcate, and below there are three well-marked teeth, the 

 third on the second median venule ; below this the edge is entire. Ilind 

 wings angular, with three small teeth, of which the central one is the largest. 

 Venation: costal vein free tVoin the subcostal; six subcostal venules, the 

 first two very long and equal in length. No subcostal cell. The posterior 

 discal venule oblique and bent. Hind tibifc not swollen, no longer than the 

 tarsi. 



The simple, thickened, slightly-ciliated male anteinue, pilose thorax, 

 and finely dentate wings separate this genus from Sclenia. 



Synopsis of the Species. 



Keiklish or umber brown ; baiul iu tbo uiiildle of the fore wings but slightly darker than 



the re.st of the wing ^- Mbnerata. 



Liglit ash-colored, with a narrow median reddish-brown band, very distinct from the rest 



of the wiug -=!• bckrmsata. 



AzELiNA hObneeata Gucn(^e. Plate 11, J, fig. 58; 9, fig. 59. 



tluiwiloiith nurctarin lliibu., Samml. Exot. Schni., ii, 180G (not aiiala Cram., _/('(/<; Guen.). 



lliibu., Verz., -.^87, 1818. 

 Azelina hiibiieraria Guen., Phal., i, 159, 18.57. 



Walk., List L(;p. Hot. 15r. Mus., xx, 186, 1800. 



10 S and 10 9. — Reddish-brown, ni()n>, or less strigated with dark 

 brown. Fore wings with the inn(!r line consisting of tiirec scallops, the 

 first bcintr usually a straight oiiliijue line, cxlcndiiig from the costa out- 



