350 GEORGE D. HULST. 



42. SPODOPTERA n. gen. 

 Type opiiscularia Hiilst. 



Palpi moderate, rather heavy, porrect, loosely scaled ; tongue de- 

 veloped ; front broad, some rounded, with a short hair tuft below ; 

 antennie bipectinated in % , apex simple, bases close together ; sum- 

 mit with scale tuft ; thorax loosely scaled ; abdomen smooth, with 

 large, lateral, broad, hair tuft from posterior part of third segment ; 

 thorax woolly hairy below ; legs smooth, hind tibiie scarcely swollen, 

 without hair pencil, with two pairs of spurs in both sexes; fore 

 wings broad, even, rounded, triangular, without fovea at base in % , 

 12 veins, 10 on 9, 11 from cell ; hind wings broad, rounded, with a 

 fovea at base in % at vein 8 below, and along inner margin beneath 

 a broad, closely fitting fold, extending nearly the whole margin and 

 nearly covering the cell, filled within with a mass of long yellowish 

 woolly hairs ; veins separate, 5 undeveloped, 8 separate from cell. 

 Species. — P. opuscularia Hulst. 



43. SOMATOL.OPHIA n. gen. 

 Type umbripennis Hulst. 



Palpi moderate, ascending, rather stout, loosely scaled ; tongue 

 developed ; front rounded, broad, loosely haired ; antennae bipecti- 

 nate in % , pectinations long ; summit with loose, overhanging scale 

 tuft ; thorax clothed with long hairs, long woolly beneath ; abdomen 

 coarsely haired and scaled with dense dorsal tuft of hairs on first 

 and third segments ; legs smooth, hind tibiae in % slightly swollen, 

 without hair pencil, rather heavy, with two pairs of spurs, the upper 

 distant from the end ; fore wings even, a small faint fovea in % at 

 base, 12 veins, lb very strongly furcate at base, 10 on 11, scarcely 

 anastomosing with 9, 1 1 from cell ; hind wings broad, even, all veins 

 separate, 5 undeveloped, 8 separate from cell. 

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



S. umbripenniiS n. sp. — Expands 48 mm. Palpi, head, thorax and abdo- 

 men dull fuscous, the tuft on first segment of abdomen black ; all wings dark 

 fuscous, somewhat darker without basal line, within outer line, and in a row of 

 clouded spots at middle of outer line; basal line faint, dentate and irregular; 

 outer line two-thirds out, parallel with outer margin, evenly scalloped, between 

 each vein, a slight whiteness within each dentation, the round of the scallops 

 being outward ; hind wings with a corresponding line and with a shading of a 

 row of spots across middle of outer field. 



Colorado. 



