AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 359 



60. EPIMECIS Hub. 

 Verz. 315, 1818. 



Type hortaria Fab. 

 Bronchelia Guen., Phal. i, 287, 1857, type hortaria Fab. 



Palpi rather short, stout, rough scaled; tongue strong; front 

 scaled, slightly tufted; antennse of % bipectinate, apex simple, 

 bristled, and slightly fascicled, of 9 filiform with two long bristles 

 at summit of each segment ; thorax scaled, untufted, hairy below ; 

 abdomen scaled ; hind tibiae slightly swollen, without hair pencil in 

 % , with all spurs; fore wings with fovea below in I , 12 veins, 10 

 and 11 from cell, separate from each other and 12; hind wings 5 

 undeveloped, 6 and 7 separate, 8 separate from cell and running 

 parallel with it much more shortly than usual, not more than one- 

 third its length ; all wings broad, rounded, the hind wing= deeply 

 scalloped. 



Very close to Selidosema, and scarcely to be separated from it. 



^ppnjps — ^ hnrtnTm F ab, is probably Geometra virginiaria Cram. 



61. EYCIA Hiib. 

 Verz. 319. 1818. 



Type hirtarius Clerck. 



Amphidasis Treit. Sch. Eur. vi. 1, 229, 1827, type betularius L. 



Palpi moderate or short, long rough scaled ; tongue obsolete, or 

 very short ; front densely haired, or long scaled ; antennae of I bi- 

 pectinate, apex simple ; thorax densely haired above and below, with 

 slight anterior and posterior tufts ; abdomen densely hairy, without 

 tuftiugs ; femora, tibiae, sometimes tarsi, long haired ; hind tibiae with 

 upper spurs generally obsolete, rarely very small ; fore wings without 

 fovea at base in I ; hind wings 5 undeveloped, 8 separate from cell. 

 Differs from Biston Leach, of which stratiarius Hufn. is type, and 

 of which Eubyja Hub. is a synonym in the simple apex of antenna? 

 of S . 



Species. — L. ursaria Pacjc. 

 L. virginaria Grt. 

 L. cognataria Guen. 



62. PH.EOURA n. gen. 



Type mexicaaaria Grt. 



Palpi moderate, slender, long haired ; tongue obsolete ; front 



densely long haired ; antennae of I bipectinate to apex, of 9 with 



short pectinations, apex simple ; thorax densely long scaled above, 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXIII. SEPTEMBER, 1896. 



