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laterally broad, subquadrate, densely clotbed 

 with hair; the third joint minute and almost 

 lost in the hairy vestiture of the second joint. 

 Antennae moderately long, heavily pecti- 

 nated, with the setae appressed and almost 

 uniform in length from the base to just before 

 the tip, where they rapidly shorten. The 

 antennae are in all the dried specimens before 

 me curved downward at the tips. The pata- 

 gia are relatively long, covering the inser- 

 tions of both the primaries and secondaries. 

 The abdomen is produced one-fourth of its 

 length beyond the posterior margin of the 

 secondaries, and on the dorsal line back of 

 the thorax has a large and very prominent 

 cluster of upright scales, giving the appear- 

 ance of a small hump. The legs are moder- 

 ately hairy ; the third pair quite long with the 

 tibiae swollen at the end and armed at the ex- 

 tremity and beyond the middle with double 

 spurs. The primaries are subtriangular with 

 the costa moderately convex, the outer mar- 

 gin rounded, the inner margin slightly con- 

 vex. The secondaries are subpyriform with 

 the costa convex, the outer margin evenly 

 rounded, and the inner margin nearly 

 straight. 



$ . The female does not differ materially 

 from the male except that the antennae are 

 less heavily pectinated, the body stouter, and 

 the wings relatively broader. 



The prevailing colors are brownish and 

 greenish-brown, and the moths are of mod- 

 erate size, averaging less than two inches in 

 expanse. The type of the genus is A*. ?iubi- 

 fitga, Holl. 



99. N. nubifuga. sp. nov. $. Palpi, 

 antennae, front, collar, and upper side of 

 thorax dark brown. The abdomen above 

 slightly paler, having the dorsal cluster of 

 scales very dark brown.' The under side of 

 the thorax and abdomen is brown, paler than 

 the upper surface. Legs concolorous with 

 the tarsi ringed with dark brown. The 



primaries are rich brown with obscure gray- 

 ish transverse lines along the costa; a 

 velvety brown spot near the base; a very 

 large velvety brown spot beyond this on the 

 inner margin, followed by a series of similar 

 velvety markings disposed as a submarginal 

 series, most prominent below the apex at 

 the end of the third median and near the 

 outer angle. The velvety spot near the outer 

 angle is sometimes accentuated by a small 

 silvery dot on its outer margin. Tfte pos- 

 terior wings above are uniformly wood-brown 

 with the fringes checkered with darker brown. 

 On the under side, the primaries and second- 

 aries are pale wood-brown, the primaries 

 clouded with fuliginous in the region of the 

 cell and traversed by an obscure double sub- 

 marginal band. The secondaries have a 

 large dark brown discal dot, a transverse 

 median and an angulated submarginal trans- 

 verse line. The fringes on the lower side are 

 conspicuously checkered with dark brown. 



$ . The female does not greatly differ 

 from the male except in the size of the an- 

 tennae but invariably in all specimens before 

 me has the silvery spot near the outer angle 

 of the primaries upon the upper side. 

 Expanse, $ , 35 to 38 mm. ; $ , 38 mm. 



100. N. delicata, sp. nov. $. Upper 

 side of palpi and front pale brown. An- 

 tennae testaceous. Collar and upper side of 

 thorax pale brown. Upper side of abdomen 

 dark brown. Lower side of thorax and ab- 

 domen pale brown. Legs concolorous, the 

 tarsi and tibiae ringed with brown. The 

 primaries are warm brown marked by very 

 narrow transverse basal, median, and limbal 

 lines of dark brown, margined on both sides 

 by very fine grayish lines. On the inner 

 margin before the base there is a large dark 

 velvety, subquadrate patch of brown scales, 

 and there is a similar linear patch of like 

 scales below the apex on the outer mar»in, 

 followed by a very narrow irregular marginal 

 line of similar scales. The fringe is pale 

 brown, checkered with dark brown. The 



