6 AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



Genus DAMATA Walker. 

 1855.— Walker, Cat. Lep. Brit. Mus. v, 1044. 

 1892. — Hampson, Moths of India i, 156. 



Type D. longipennis Walk. A second species is D. microsticta 

 Hampson. 



Genus 9fIGANDA Moore. 

 1879. — Moore, Desc. Lep. Ind. Atkinson, 63. 

 1892. — Hampson, Moths of India i, 138. 



Type and sole species, N. strigifascia jVIoore. 



Genus GARGETTA Walker. 

 1864.— Walker. Cat. Lep. Brit. Mus. xxxii, 455. 

 1892.— Hampson, Moths of India i, 135. 



Type G. costigera Walk. The other species are G. uagcensis 

 Hamps. and curvaria Hamps. 



Genus THACONA Walker. 

 1864. — Thacona Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. viii. 169. 

 1866.— Porsica Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus. xxxv. 1823. 

 1892. — GargeUa Hampson (in part), Moths of India i, 136. 



Type T. costivitta Walker. Other species, T. ingens Walk, (type 

 of Porsica) and T. albimacula Hampson. 



Genus KX^RETA Hiibner. 

 1818— Exwreta Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett., 200. 

 1832. — Uropns Kambur, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, i, 278. 

 The palpi are short and hairy : wings long, the apex rather sharp, vein 5 from 

 the middle of the cell, both it and the cross-vein weak in the hind wings; acces- 

 sory cell present, vein 10 arising beyond it. 



Type E. ulmi Den. and SchifF. 



The larva is without humps, but has long divergent anal feet ; its 

 coloration is dark, with longitudinal lines. 



Genus ZARAKGA Moore. 

 1884.— Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 357. 

 1892.— Hampson, Moths of India i, 146. 



Type and sole species, Z. pannosa Moore. 



Genus METASCHAEIS Hampson. 

 1892. — Hampson, Moths of India i, 158. 



Type and sole species, 31. disrupta Moore. 



Genus L,IPAROFSIS Hampson. 

 1892.— Hampson, Moths of India i, 154. 



Type and sole species, L. postalbida Hampson. 



