AMERICAN lp:pidoptera. 373 



87. HYPERITIS Gueu. 

 . Phal. 117, i, 1857. 



Type amicaria H.-Sch. 

 Probole H.-Sch.. Auseu. Schm. 83, 1855, type amicaria H.-Sch. 

 Palpi ascending, stout, rather long ; front rounded, broad, smooth ; 

 tongue developed; antennse bipectinated in both sexes, apex simple, 

 pectinations short in 9 ; thorax and abdomen smooth ; hind tibiae 

 scarcely swollen, without hair pencil, with two pairs of spurs in both 

 sexes; fore wings angled at 4, without fovea at base in S , 12 veins, 

 6 separate, 10 at a point, or shortly stemmed with 9, 11 from cell ; 

 hind wings with a broad angle at 4, larger in % , all veins separate, 

 5 undeveloped, 8 separate from cell. 



Species : — 

 H. amicaria H.-Sch. H. trianguliferata Pack. 



H. notataria Hulst. H. mollicularia Zell. 



88. AMI A Steph. 

 Brit. Eut. Hanst. iii, 321, 1831. 



Type limbata. 

 Mic.rogonia H.-Sch., Auseu. Schm, 1855, type limbata Haw. 

 Nematocampa Guen., Phal. i, 120, 1857, type limbata Haw. 



Palpi moderate, erect or ascending, light ; tongue developed ; 

 front smooth, narrow in S , quadrate in 9 ! antennse S lamellate, 

 in S filiform ; thorax smooth, hairs of patagise long ; abdomen 

 smooth ; legs rather heavy ; hind tibiie in S nuich swollen, with 

 hair pencil, end spurs small, close together, the outer upper spur 

 normal, the inner lengthened, enlarged at end thus becoming club 

 shaped; hind tibiae of 9 normal; fore wings 11 veins, 10 wanting, 

 1 1 stemmed with 9, 5 nearer 6 than 4 ; hind wings all separate, 5 

 undeveloped, 8 separate from cell. 

 Species. — A. limbata Haw. 



89. CJOIVODONTIS Hub. 



Verz. 287, 1818. 



Type bidentata Clerck. 

 Epirranthis Hub.. 296. 1818, type obfinnaria Hiib. 

 Odonoptera Steph., 111. 162, 1829, type bidentata Clerck. 

 Metarranthis Warr., Nov. Zool. i. 436, 1894, type obfirmaria Hiib. 



Palpi moderate, or rather long, porrect or subascending, rough 

 scaled ; tongue developed ; antennae of S bipectinate to apex, pec- 

 tinations clavate, antennse of 9* sharply serrate ; thorax hairy scaled, 

 hairy below ; abdomen scaled, untufted ; femora more or less hairy ; 



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