AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 337 



Close to Opisthograptis Hiib., differing especially in the naked 

 flat antenna? of % . 



Species. — A. carata Hulst. 



Ts. EL' ASP1L.ATES P ack. 



Geoni. Moths, 203. 1876. 



Type spinitaria Pack. 



Palpi short, hairy below ; tongue developed ; antennse bipectinate 

 in I , the pectinations moderate ; front broad, smooth ; thorax and 

 abdomen rather smooth ; thorax somewhat woolly below. Legs 

 smooth, fore tibial short, stout, rather flattened, with two spurs at 

 end, the outer strong, long, the inner smaller and shorter ; hind 

 tibiae club shaped, with two pairs of spurs in both sexes ; fore wings 

 without fovea, 11 veins, 10 wanting, 11 from cell anastomosing with 

 9 ; hind wings 7 veins all separate, 5 undeveloped. 

 Species. -T^£. spinitaria Pack. 



19. A\THELIA n. gen. 

 Type taylorata Hulst. 



Palpi long, subascending, heavy, end member deflexed ; tongue 

 developed; front with a long conical hair tuft ; antennae of % fili- 

 form, scarcely flattened ; thorax and abdomen smooth. Legs smooth, 

 hind tibiae of % long, swollen, with hair pencil, two pairs of spurs 

 in both sexes ; fore wings subfalcate, even, without fovea at base in 

 % , 12 veins, 10 from cell, 11 from cell ; hind wings all veins sepa- 

 rate, 5 undeveloped, 8 separate from the cell. 

 Species. — A. taylorata Hulst, n. sp. 



A. taylorata n. sp. — Expands 35 mm. Palpi, front, thorax and abdomen 

 smoky clay color, the prominent tuft of the front and the antennae slightly less 

 smoky than the rest; palpi quite prominent, the end member drooping; fore 

 wings, apex sharp, slightly falcate, outer margin subangulate at vein 4; color 

 dead clay, darker along costal field, and on outer field of hind wings, which cor- 

 respond in color with the fore wings; both wings dotted with dark brown atoms: 

 basal line of fore wings obsolete ; outer line broad, brown, straight, with edges 

 indistinct, fading into the ground color, beginning at costa three-fourths from 

 base, and striking inner margin two-thirds from base ; a corresponding submar- 

 ginal broad line, more indistinct, starting from near apex, where it is very faint, 

 then running parallel with outer margin ; hind wings with a corresponding line 

 three-fifths out from base, indistinct: discal spots wanting, or faintly suggested 

 on fore wings; beneath an even clay color, considerably dotted with brown. 

 Legs corresponding with thorax in color. 



Victoria, British Columbia, from Prof Taylor, to whom I dediciite 

 the species. 



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