368 GEORGE D. HULST. 



Brotis Hiib. is preoccupied by Hiibner himself, he having given 

 the name previously to another genus of Lepidoptera. The genus 

 is a very peculiar one in the position of the antennse ; the single 

 species has a decided resemblance to the genus Eudamiis of the Rho- 

 palocera, and is probably a day flyer. 



75. STERGAMAT^A n. gen. 

 Type inornata Hulst. 



Palpi moderately long, recurved, reaching well towards summit 

 of head ; tongue strong ; antennae of 9 filiform ; front rounded ; 

 thorax hairy scaled, hairy below ; abdomen scaled ; hind tibise with 

 all spurs ; wings rather broad, even, rounded ; fore wings 12 veins, 

 10 and 1 1 stemmed from cell ; hind wings 5 undeveloped, 6 and 7 

 separate, 8 separate from cell. 



I have the 9 only. Its peculiarity, the recurved palpi, is a rare 

 form of structure in the family. 



Species. — S. inornata Hulst, n. sp. 



S. inornata n. sp. — Expands 48 mm. Palpi dark fuscous; front, thorax 

 and abdomen whitish ocher stained with fuscous; all wings of the same color, 

 varying only enough to give faint suggestion of lighter cross-bauds basally and 

 outwardly, the limitations of these being scalloped and slightly darker; discal 

 spots fine, black ; beneath slightly less ocher, and a broad outer fuscous baud 

 parallel with outer margins on all wings. 



Female only, Colorado, from Mr. Bruce. 



76. ]fIEL.E]VI^A n. gen. 

 Type magdalena Hulst. 



Palpi moderate, subascending, rather slendei", lightly scaled ; 

 tongue developed ; front rounded, conical, short scaled ; antennae of 

 % bipectinate, apex simple ; thorax and abdomen smooth ; hind 

 tibiae of % not swollen, without hair pencil, with all spurs ; fore 

 wings without fovea below, 12 veins, 10 from a point with 6 and 9 

 at end of cell, 1 1 from cell ; hind wings rounded, 5 undeveloped, 6 

 and 7 stennued, 8 separate from cell. 



Species. — M. magdalena Hulst, n. sp. 

 31. morsicaria Hulst. 



M. magdalena n. sp. — Expands 35 mm. Palpi ocher yellow, reddish on 

 outside; front reddish yellow; antennse yellow fuscous, end of pectinations much 

 darker; thorax yellowish, as is also the abdomen, but the latter has a reddish 

 tinge dorsally ; fore wings reddish orange, lighter along costa, becoming straw- 

 yellow towards apex ; from costa just within apex this yellow reaches in a 

 rounded loop, broader at middle, to base at inner margin ; beyond this following 



