282 GEORGE D. HULST. 



flecks beyond ; outer lines most prominent, geminate, gray, sinusecl outwardly 

 between veins 5 and 2, dentate wavy all their length ; a submarginal, faint, wavy 

 gray line : fringes color of wings with lighter intermissions ; hind wings rather 

 satiny white, slightly stained with fuscous and with black atoms basally and 

 along inner margin : beneath dull white on all wings, fuscous stained along costa, 

 speckled with black scales basally on fore wings and all over hind wings with 

 large blackish spot at apex of fore wings divided by whitish line, all wings with 

 black discal spots. 



Southern California. 



30. PERCIVOPTILOTA n. gen. 

 Type flnvuda Hiib. 

 Plemyrie Hiib., Verz. 334. 1818, type fluviafa Hiib. 



Palpi rather long, porrect ; tongue developed ; front with conical 

 tuft of scales ; antennae of S filiform, with fascicles of hairs on 

 each segment ; thorax without posterior tuft. Abdomen tufted at 

 end; hind tibi?e with two pairs of spurs; fore wings 12 veined, two 

 accessory cells; hind wings 8 veins, 6 and 7 stemmed, 8 with cell to 

 beyond middle. 



Plemyrie Hiib., applied to this species, is preoccupied by Plemyria 

 Hiib., the names being the same, one partially, the other entirely 

 latinized. _ 



Species.^ P. fiuviaia Hiib. 



31. IflESOLEVCA Hiib. 

 Verz. 326, 1818. 



Type (dbicillafa Linn. 

 Glaucopteryx Hiib., Verz. 332. 1818, type csesiata Lang. 

 Melanthia Dup., Hist. Nat. viii, 252, 1829, type procellata Fab. 

 Camptogramma Steph., 111. iii, 263, 1831, type bilineafa L. 



Palpi moderate ; front with tuft of scales ; tongue developed ; an- 

 tennae of % filiform ciliate ; thorax with or without posterior tuft. 

 Abdomen sometimes tufted at end ; hind tibiae with all spurs, fore 

 wings with two accessory cells, 12 veins ; hind wings 8 veins, 6 and 

 7 stemmed, 8 with cell to bevond middle. 



JM. ruficiliata^juen. 31. silaceata var. defiavata Stand. 



(M. qratula ta Walk, ( brunneicil- M. albolineata Pack. 



/ J/, ciemtid Bork . [lata Pack.) 31. suspectata Moesch. 



/ 31. lacudnda Guen. 31. hersiliata Guen. 



31. brutmeimaculata Bates. M. ethela Hnlst, n. sp. 



31. truncata Hiib. (31. vasal ia ta Guen. 



