354 GEORGE D. HULST. 



51. AETHAL.ODES n. gen. 

 Type packardaria Hulst. 



Palpi rather short, slender, smooth ; tongue obsolete ; front smooth ; 

 antenute of % bipectinate to apex, pectinations long, plumose ; tho- 

 rax and abdomen smooth ; hind tibiae not swollen, without hair pen- 

 cil, with two pairs of spurs in both sexes; fore wings broad, even, 

 without fovea at base in ?> , 12 veins, 10 on 11, 11 from cell ; hind 

 wings broad, outer margin sinuate with dull angle at end of veins, 

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

 Species. — A. packardaria Hulst. 



52. CHESIADODES n. gen. 

 Type morosata Hulst. 



Palpi very small, slender ; tongue obsolete ; front very protruding, 

 rounded, close scaled ; antennae bipectinate in % apex simple ; thorax 

 and abdomen smooth ; bind tibiae slender, without hair pencil, with 

 two pairs of spurs in both sexes ; fore wings even, rounded at both 

 angles, without fovea at base in S , 1 1 veins, 10 wanting, 1 1 from 

 cell ; hind wings long, even, all veins separate, 5 undeveloped, 8 

 separate from cell. 



Close to Aet/udodes Hulst, differing in the strongly bulging clypeus 

 and simple apex of antennae. 



Species. — C. morosata Hulst, n. sp. 



C morosata n. sp. — Expands 42 mm. Palpi and front blackish ; thorax 

 blackish gray. Abdomen blackish gray, becoming black posteriorly on each seg- 

 ment; fore wings blackish gray, with three slightly rounded blackish lines sub- 

 parallel with outer mai'gin, and with nearly the same distance between the basal 

 and middle as between the middle and outer; the outer line a little emphasized 

 on the veins; an even, submarginal whitish line beginning at a triangular apical 

 whitish spot, and running slightly outwardly from margin ; hind wings light 

 grayish fuscous, darker along inner. margin and outwardly with faint outer line ; 

 discal spots present, indistinct; beneath fore wings light gray, hind wings fuscous 

 gray. 



Sierra Nevada, Cal., from Henry Edwards. 



53. SEIilDOSElflA Hiib. 



Verz. 299. 1818. 



Type ericetaria Vills. 

 Adadylotis Hiib., Verz. 303, 1818, type gesticidata Hiib. 



Palpi moderate or quite long, porrect, rough scaled ; tongue de- 

 veloped ; front scaled, sometimes somewhat tufted ; antennae of S 

 bipectinate, apex simple, the pectinations filiform, long, generally 



