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13. Genus Polites. 

 Polites, Scudd. Syst. Rev. p. 57 (18/2). Ty'^e, pecJdus, Kirby. 

 Antennae short, less than half the length of costa ; club short, 

 robust, terminal crook minute. Palpi as in Hylephila. 



Neuration as in Hylephila except that on the fore wing vein 3 is 

 further from end of cell, being almost equidistant from 2 and 4 ; 

 and on the hind wing, that vein 2 is nearer to the end of the cell, 

 vein 3 being only slightly nearer to 4 than to 2. " Discal stigma of 

 male consisting of an interrupted, gently arcuate or sinuate streak of 

 dead black retrorse scales or rods edged below, especially in the 

 middle, with a border of similar but dust-coloured erect rods and 

 followed beneath by an inconspicuous large area of loosely com- 

 pacted, erect, dusky scales."' (Scudder, Butt. New Engl. p. lt)79.) 

 f cor an, Oram. ? . 

 \ 2}eckius, Kirby. $ . 

 [ immsutta, Harris. iS . 



Conlined to North America. 



14. Genus Hylephila. 



Hylephila, Billb. Enum. Ins. p. 81 (1820). 



Type, phylceus, Drury. 

 Etdhymus^ Scudd. Syst. Rev. p. .56 (1872). 



Type, phylceMS, Drury. 

 Antennae very short, hardly one third the length of costa ; club 

 short, robust, terminal crook exceedingly minute. Palpi : second 

 joint densely scaled, third joint minute, suberect, bluntly conical. 



Fore wing : inner margin slightly longer than outer margin. Cell 

 less than two-thirds the length of costa ; vein 5 from close to 

 bottom of cell ; vein 3 very close to end of cell ; vein 2 considerably 

 nearer to base of wing than to end of cell, in the female this vein is 

 shghtly more remote from base of wing. Hind wing : outer margin 

 even, slightly excised between veins 3 and 1 h ; vein 7 well before 

 end of cell, almost equidistant from 6 and 8 ; discocellulars faint ; 

 vein 5 not traceable ; veins 2, 3, and 4 all close together, 3 about 

 twice as far from 2 as from 4. Hind tibise with two pairs of spurs. 

 Male with a linear discal stigma on fore wing, extending from origin 

 of vein 3 as far as vein 1, and edged exteriorly with an outwardly 

 diffused streak of raised scales. 



phylcEus, Drury 1 . 



,/"ascw?ato, Blanch. ... 2. 

 fulva, Blanch 3. 



Confined to America. 



15. Genus Padraona. 



Fadraona, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 170 (1881). 



Type, ma'sa, Moore. 



Antennae : club moderate, elongate, with a short terminal crook. 

 Palpi : second joint densely scaled ; third joint short, slender, sub- 

 erect, obtuselv conical. 



