360 GEORGE D. HULST. 



densely hairy below ; abdomen rough scaled, with a tuft or pencil 

 of hairs dorsally on each segment ; legs somewhat long haired, hind 

 tibise of % not swollen, without hair pencil, with one pair of spurs 

 in both sexes ; fore wings without fovea below at base in S , gener- 

 ally 1 1 veins ; hind wings 5 undeveloped, 8 separate from cell. 



Differs from other allied genera especially in the bipectinate an- 

 tennae of $ . 



Species. — P. mexicanaria Grt. 



P. cristifera Hulst, n. sp. 



P. cristifera u. sp.— Expands 44 rum. Palpi dark fuscous, black at end ; 

 front smoky black ; summit dark fuscous ; tboras dark fuscous gray, blackish 

 posteriorly. Abdomen dark fuscous, first two segments lined posteriorly with 

 black, posterior segments with black much intermixed. Wings dark fuscous, 

 these with thorax and abdomen washed with a soft violet-brown tint ; lines after 

 the cognataria pattern, on fore wings both heavy, distinct, black; basal beginning 

 one-third out, evenly curving around to inner margin and reaching nearly to 

 base ; outer with broad, obtuse, prominent angle at vein 4, thus lower than in 

 cognataria, whic^ is at vein 5 ; hind wings outer line at middle, black, strong, 

 distinct, even, very slightly wavy, without angle ; inner line close by, subparallel, 

 somewhat closer posteriorly, fainter ; discal spot of fore wings an oval cloud, not 

 distinct; beneath as above, with much less emphasis, the violet tint, however, 

 stronger in certain shades. Legs blackish and fuscous. 



Colorado, from Mr. Bruce. 



63. NACOPHORA n. gen. 

 Type quernaria A. and S. 



Palpi short, porrect, with long hairs; clypeus flattened, densely 

 long haired ; tongue absent, or very short ; antennae strongly bipec- 

 tinate in S , apex simple ; thorax and abdomen stout, heavy, thorax 

 long woolly haired below, heavy haired above ; abdomen slightly 

 tufted dorsally on each segment ; legs, with femora, woolly ; hind 

 tibise with one pair of spurs; fore wings 12 veined, 3 and 4 separate, 

 6 stemmed with 7, with fovea at base ; hind wings 3 and 4 separate, 

 5 obsolete, 6 and 7 separate, 8 separate, approximating cell for one- 

 half its length. 

 Species: — 

 N. minima Hulst, n. sp. N. quernaria Ab. Sm. 



N. carlotta Hulst, n. sp. N. cupiddria Grt. 



N. phigaliarla Guen. 



Bf . minima n. sp. — Expands 32-33 mm. Palpi, front and thorax with black 

 and light gray scales intermixed, giving a dark gray color ; thorax with two pos- 

 terior subdorsal tufts of long scales, these black at the end. Abdomen grayish 



