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16. PTEWOI'ODA u. gen. 

 Type miranda Hulst. 



Palpi short, slender ; front smooth ; antennae simple, ciliate fasci- 

 cled ; hind tibiae of % without spurs, long, lined the whole length 

 with a fringe of long hairs, and with a long thick pencil of hairs ; 

 middle tibiae also fringed with long hairs ; fore tibiae very long, con- 

 siderably longer than femora, very slender, closely scaled ; tarsi 

 almost aborted on hind legs, and apparently entirely so on middle 

 legs; fore wings 12 veins, 6 separate, 10 on 9, 11 from cell, one 

 accessory cell ; hind wings 8 veins, 6 and 7 stemmed. 



Remarkable for the peculiar fringing of the middle and hind 

 tibiae in % , and in this unique so far as I know. 

 Species. — P. miranda Hulst, n. sp. 



P. miranda n. sp. — P^xpands 24 mm. Palpi ocher fuscous, black at tip; 

 front black ; summit between antennae, thorax and abdomen basally light ocher. 

 the abdomen becoming ocher fuscous posteriorly ; fore wings whitish ocher 

 sprinkled with fuscous scales, but not so plentifully on middle field ; a faint sinu- 

 ous basal line ; a broad fuscous line passing just beyond discal spot, wavy sinuate ; 

 an outer fuscous line nidistinctly dentate, subparallel with outer margin ; a sub- 

 marginal fuscous clouding divided by a lighter colored space; marginal line of 

 black dots ; hind wings light ocher with fuscous atoms, extreme base fuscous, and 

 the outer lines and shadings of the fore wings continued ; a marginal line of 

 black points; the marginal dots are in all wings in the fringes just at end of 

 veins : hind wings slightly sinused in below anterior angle on outer margin fiom 

 veins 7 to 5 ; below as above, hut fainter. Legs with fringings bright ocher, the 

 pencil of the hind wings being blackish basally, becoming ocher at ends. 



Blanco County, Texas. 



17. SIOEIi/1 n. gen. 



Type perumhrata Hulst. 

 Palpi moderately long, subascending ; front rounded, short scaled ; 

 antennae, evenly ciliated with hairs in S ; a pointed projection inside 

 on summit of basal member in % ; between the antennae a smooth 

 flattened scale pad overhanging front ; hind tibiae with two pairs of 

 spurs in both sexes ; fore wings without accessory cell, 1,2 veins, 6 

 separate, 10 from 9, 11 from cell ; hind wings 8 veins, 6 J 7 long 

 stenmied. 



A very peculiar, and so far as I know, unique genus, having what 

 seem to be leanings towards the Tineidae. The overhanging scale 

 tuft on summit of head is very rarely found, Philagraula being the 

 only genus I know of, and this is, with some doubt, a Geometer. 

 The projection on base of antennae is so far as I know unique among 



TRANS. AM. KNT. SOC. XXIII. SKPTEJMBER, 1896 



