1893.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. I4I 



Elpis rubra Neum. 



Var. danbyi n. var. 



Stalk of antenna bright red, pectinations black; hair of thorax 

 brown, with a red tint. Abdomen yellow-brown. Wings trans- 

 lucent; primaries blackish brown, with many minute red hairs 

 intermixed. Secondaries black; all tibiae red on top, the thick 

 hair at base of legs light brown; eyes blackish. 



Type, one % , in Mr. Neumoegen's collection. 



Named in honor of Mr. W. H. Danby, Victoria, B. C, from 

 whom the specimen was received. 



Genus EUVERNA n. gen. 



Head retracted, palpi exceeding the front, eyes globose, naked; 

 antennae bipectinate in % , serrate in $ ; vestiture of hair and 

 scales rather short and appressed. Abdomen exceeding secon- 

 daries by half its length; thorax moderately stout; abdomen of 

 nearly even width throughout, slightly flattened toward the ex- 

 tremity; primaries elongate, two and a half times as long as 

 broad, costa straight till beyond cell, then slightly rounded over 

 apex: outer margin oblique; internal angle obtuse, not rounded. 

 Secondaries small, trigonate, subcaudate in the % , costa convex, 

 apical and anal angles rounded; hind tibiae with two pairs of 

 short conical spurs; anterior tibiae unarmed at tip; vein 8 of sec- 

 ondaries leaves subcostal at about middle of cell, runs very close 

 to it to the apex; veins 7-10 of primaries stalked out of end of 

 cell, as in Spilosoma. 



Type, Seirarctia clio Pack. 



Genus NEOARCTIi n. gen. 



Head much retracted, palpi short, not attaining the front, eyes 

 naked, well sunken in the long hairy vestiture; antennae of % 

 moderately bipectinated, females shortly so; thorax rather small, 

 very hairy, abdomen exceeding secondaries, sometimes very 

 much so; primaries more than twice as long as broad; costa 

 slightly convex or straight, apices produced and rather pointed ; 

 outer margin convex, slightly oblique ; interior angle gently 

 rounded. Secondaries full and rounded; costa and outer margin 

 convex, vestiture of the wings thin and subtranslucent. The 

 venation is practically that of Spilosoma. 



Type, Antardia beanii Neum. 



Ardia bnicei Hy. Edw. is congeneric. 



