310 GEORGE D. HULST. 



CAI.I.EDAPTERYX Grt. 

 Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii, 119, 1868. 



Type dryopterafa Grt. 



Palpi very small, porrect, slender ; clypeus flat, closely scaled ; 

 antejinoe ciliate, slightly flattened. Legs rather short, fore tibiae 

 unarmed ; hind tibise swollen, with two pairs of spurs ; thorax and 

 abdomen untufted ; fore wings arched at base of costa, then some- 

 what concave, very rounded at apex, angulated at middle, strongly 

 concave on hind margin, 12 veins, no accessory cell, 3 and 4 at lower 

 angle of cell, 5 close to 6 at upper angle, 6 and 7 stemmed from 

 point of cell, 8 and 9 stemmed from anterior part of cell, 10 and 1 1 

 from near base ; hind wings with two angles on outer border, 8 veins, 

 3 and 4 stemmed, 5 nearer 6 than 4, 6 and 7 stemmed, 8 at once 

 broadly diverging from cell. 



Species. — C. dryopterata Grt. 



PHIL,AORAVL.A n. gen. 

 Type slossoniae Hulst. 



Palpi moderate, slender, closely scaled, subascending ; clypeus flat, 

 closely scaled with overhanging scale tuft from base of antennae; 

 antennae flattened, finely pubescent ; thorax and abdomen closely 

 scaled, untufted. Legs short, quite stout, fore tibiae unarmed, hind 

 tibiae swollen, with two pairs of long spurs, the upper being the lon- 

 ger; fore wings rounded at apex, nearly even on outer margin, 

 concave on inner margin, no accessory cell, 12 veins, 3 at lower angle 

 of cell, 4 on outer margin of cell below middle, 5 near 6 at angle, 6 

 and 7 stemmed, 8 and 9 stemmed, 10 close to stem of 8 and 9, 11 

 from anterior part of cell ; hind wings sinuate on outer margin, 

 the outer reaches being at 4, 6 and 7, anterior margin broadly de- 

 veloped near base, 8 veins, 2 from near base of cell, 3 and 4 fi-om 

 angle, 5 from middle of cell, 6 and 7 from angle, 8 at once broadly 

 diverging from cell reaching to apex. 

 Species. — P. slossonke Hulst, n. sp. 



P. Slossonise n. sp. — Expands 25 mm. Palpi and front inky black ; an- 

 tennae and autennal tuft a soft ochreous brown ; thorax the same color, faintly 

 washed with violet. Abdomen more ochreous. Wings violet-brown, more ochre- 

 ous on the inner half, all slightly speckled with darker brown scales ; fore wings 

 with faint traces of two fine basal lines, with a triangular blackish patch at mid- 

 dle of costa with point reaching one-third acro.ss wing, the base being on costa 

 and longest; another smaller corresponding blackish patch opposite along inner 

 margin, the limiting line being inky black, and the spot reaching one-fourth 

 across the wing, its apex being towards the apex of the costal triangle ; a dark 



