374 GEORGE D. HULST. 



hind tibiie somewhat swollen or slightly so, without hair pencil in 

 % , with all spurs; fore wings 12 veins, 10 and 11 from cell ; with- 

 out fovea below in % ; hind wings 5 undeveloped, 6 and 7 separate, 

 8 separate from cell ; wings even, somewhat wavy, or somewhat 

 angled. 



Mr. Meyrick joins CrocaUis Treit. with this. The type of Cro- 

 callis is elinguaria L., which is also the type of Eusarca Hub. of 

 the Teutamen. Elinguaria is not congeneric v.'ith Gonodoutis how- 

 ever, as the tongue is wanting. I have joined with this genus Epir- 

 ranthis Hiib., the type of which is objinnaria Hiib., which has 

 broad, rounded wings, but which is insensibly connected with the 

 species having waved or angulate wings. Mr. Warren gives the 

 name 3Ietarrhattthis to obJir)ii(iria, " because palverata has been re- 

 moved to the Orthostixinae." Epirranthis was created by Hiibner 

 with two species under \t, pulverata and obfirmaria. Boisduval, find- 

 ing them not congeneric, created the genus Ploseria with pulverata 

 as type, thus leaving obfirmaria as type of Epirranthis. This was 

 right, and the reference was, so far as I know, universally recognised 

 by systematists till Mr. Meyrick, without explanation, "^vxt pulverata 

 under Epirranthis. I do not believe Epirranthis a valid genus, but 

 if so or not, its type is obfirmaria Hiib. 



Hiib. Verz. 263, 1818, gave the name Gonodonta to a genus of 

 Noctuidse. Under the present recognised law of priority, the name 

 Gonodontis, not being a mere distinction of gender, is not a syno- 

 nym, and must not, therefore, give way to Epirranthis. 



Species : — 

 G. hypochraria H.-Sch. G. forniosa Hulst, n. sp. 



G. ivarneri Haw. G. obfirmaria Hiib. 



G. duaria Guen. G. distichata Gucn. 



G. jnlosaria Pack. G. antidiscaria Walk. 



G. barnesii Hulst, n. sp. 



G. barnesii n. sp. — Expands 38-40 mm. Palpi smoky brown, end member 

 closely scaled, middle and basal members lighter colored and hairy ; head rather 

 long haired, smoky ochreoiis; antennse about one-half as long as wing, pectina- 

 tions stout, but rather short, smoky yellow in color ; thorax long hairy, yellow, 

 with a smoky tinge, abdomen of same color: fore wings slightly falcate, angled 

 at end of vein 4 ; the wings are divided into three fields the basal reaching about 

 one-fourth the wing on costa, the same distance on inner margin, rounding out- 

 wardly, ochreous yellow in color; the middle field has a considerably darker 

 tinge, and is limited outwardly by a line curving inwardly near the middle and 

 subparallel with the outer margin ; this field is on both inner and outer edge 

 within lined narrowly with smoky brown ; outer field clay ocher ; hind wdugs 



