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present family, as is the whole aspect of the species. Mr. Meyrick 

 explains these as anomalous forms in which the posterior wall of the 

 second accessory cell has become obsolete ; he therefore speaks of 

 the insect as having two accessory cells in fore wings. Zenophlep-f 

 differs^'om Catachjsme Hiib. in having bipectinate antennae in the S . 

 jf >6\)ec'ies.- ~Z._Ug)d&alaaxUL Pack,^ 



Z. obscunda Hulst, n. sp. 



Z. «bsciirat« ii. sp. — Expands 26 mm. Palpi ochreous brown, blackish 

 towards end ; head ochreous fuscous, with thorax and abdomen of same color; 

 fore wings grayish, well mixed with blackish scales, and with many not very 

 decided blackish cross-lines, and the whole washed with yellow ochreous, espe- 

 cially on the outer third ; the lines are arranged in three bands, the first basal, 

 the second median within the black discal spot, the third beyond the discal spot ; 

 they all are lighter between the limiting lines, are quite evenly rounded out- 

 wardly, pretty evenly dentate on lioth sides the middle one being the most even : 

 the outer one has two or three little white spots outwardly at veins 2. 3 and 4; 

 outer space arranged in two or three lighter and darker bauds, sharply and evenly 

 dentate; a line of black marginal spots: fringe concolorous with outer part of 

 wing ; hind wings corresponding very much to pattern of fore wings, but all basal 

 markings lost, and middle band showing in a rounded, distinct, blackish line; 

 beneath fuscous gray, the bajids on both wings showing in deejier color, rather 

 solid and quite decidedly manifest in a broad marginal band on both wings. 



One male, Siskiyou County, California. 



29. ENCHORIA n. gen. 

 Type osculata Hulst. 



Palpi short, rough, hairy ; front rough scaled, scarcely tufted ; 

 tongue developed ; antennae of % flattened, dentate, finely ciliate 

 below ; thorax with a double anterior tuft, and also a low postei'ior 

 tuft. Abdomen slightly tufted at end ; hind tibiae with two pairs 

 of spurs; fore wings two accessory cells, 12 veins; hind wings 8 

 veins, H and 7 stemmed, 8 with cell to beyond middle. 



Differs from Gijpsochroa Hiib. in that the antennae are eveidv 

 ciliate, not fascicled with hairs. 



Species. — E. osculata Hulst, n. s^:*. 



E. osculata n. sp.— Expands 24 mm. Palpi, front and thorax fuscous, with 

 black scales intermixed, the whole vestiture being squamose and diifuse. Abdo- 

 men ditf .ise, fuscous, the first segment being more blackish and the fourth blackish 

 doi-sally ; fore wings fuscous, the whole surface covered with more or le.ss faint, 

 dentate, or wavy lines, parallel with the rounded outer margin ; these show most 

 decidedly by a faint basal cross-band, somewhat darker than the ground color, 

 edged inwardly and outwardly by a more grayish color, tiie dentations of the 

 outer lines marked with black ou veins ; discal si)ots iironiinent black with wliitjsii 



TKANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXIII. (:>()) AUGUST. 1896 



