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tion with fascicle of liaii's, apex simple ; thorax and abdomen scaled, 

 the latter tufted at end ; hind tibiae of t with hair pencil, with all 

 spurs; fore wings with fovea below in (?, 12 or 11 veins, somewhat 

 waved on outer margin ; hind wings 5 undeveloped, 6 and 7 sepa- 

 rate, 8 separate from cell ; wing waved on outer margin forming 

 rounded, projecting angles at veins 3 and 4. 

 Species. — P. deplanaria Guen. 



36. SPODOLEPIS n. gen. 

 Type substriafnria Hulst. 



Palpi moderate, subascending, heavily scaled below ; tongue de- 

 veloped ; front very broad, rounded, smooth ; antenuse of 9 filiform ; 

 thorax with long scales, with an anterior, dorsal, dense, hair tuft, 

 and the patagise running out into long stemmed scales forming raised 

 tufts on each side ; abdomen smooth ; hind tibiae of $ slightly 

 swollen, with two pairs of spurs ; fore wings decidedly arched at 

 shoulder, subfalcate, angled at vein 5, 12 veins, 6 separate, 10 and 

 11 from cell, anastomosing with each other and with 9 and 12 ; hind 

 wings all veins separate, 5 undeveloped, 8 separate from cell. 



I have the 9 only. It is peculiar from the dorsal tufting and 

 tufted patagise. 



Species. — S. substriataria Hulst, n. sp. 



S. substriataria n. sp. — Expands 48 mm. Palpi, front and thorax dark 

 ■fuscous, the tufts of the latter white on end. Abdomen light fuscous, with a few 

 scattered black scales: fore wings fuscous, showiug a violet reflection in some 

 lights across the middle field, with quite thickly scattered, raised, black and white 

 scales ; a basal black cross-line, edged within with raised white scales, with three 

 inward angles and three outward loops, the largest on cell : an outer black line 

 edged outwardly with white scales, oblique from costa to vein 6 following this 

 some distance, then at an angle turning down to 4 not far from outer margin, 

 then rounding back to 3, then with two more sinuses from 3 to 2 and 2 to inner 

 margin; a blackish cloud on basal middle field on cell, and another below the 

 cell, a marginal line of intervenular black dashes, parallel with the veins; hind 

 wings light fuscous, black peppered, darker outwardly; beneath dull sordid fus- 

 cous, the fore wings faintly showing the lines, the hind wings with dark fuscous 

 striations. 



One 9 , Franconia, N. H., from Mrs. Slosson. The insect has 

 somewhat the appearance of Paraphia. 



37. STEMOTRACHELYS Guen. 

 Phal. i, 290, 1857. 



Type approximaria Hiib. 



Palpi rather long, porrect, long and loosely scaled ; tongue de- 

 veloped ; front broad, bulging, loosely scaled ; autennse bipectinate 



TEANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXIII. SEPTEMBER. 1896. 



