194 ME. F. "WALKEE ON HETEEOCEEOUS LEPIEOPTEEA 



Antenna contortae, dilatatae, spatulatae, apice serratae. Abdomen alas 

 posticas vix superans. Pedes validi ; tibiae posticae pilis longissimis 

 dense vestitae. Alee anticae sat angustae, apice subrotundatae, costa 

 recta, margine exteriore perobliquo. 

 Male. Body moderately stout. Head with a prominent acute frontal 

 tuft. Proboscis short. Palpi small ; 2nd joint obliquely ascending ; 

 3rd porrect, less than half the length of the 2nd, with which it forms 

 a slight angle. Antennae somewhat spiral, dilated from the base to 

 one-third of the length, beyond which they are more dilated and some- 

 what cup-shaped; apical part serrate. Abdomen hardly extending 

 beyond the hind wings. Legs stout ; hind tibiae thickly clothed with 

 very long hairs ; spurs of moderate length. Wings rather narrow. 

 Fore wings slightly rounded at the tips ; costa straight ; exterior bor- 

 der very oblique. This genus seems to connect the Hadenidce with 

 some of the genera of the Herminida. 



258. Seria cyathicornis, n. s. Mas. Rufescens, antennis ex parte 

 nigris, alis anticis lineis tribus indistinctis denticulatis nigricantibus, 

 linea submarginali e guttis nigricantibus, reniformi ex annulis duobus 

 connexis cinereis, alis posticis aeneo-fuscis. 



Male. Reddish, with a cinereous tinge beneath. Antennae with the 

 cup-shaped part black. Fore wings with three indistinct blackish 

 denticulated lines ; submarginal line formed of blackish dots ; reni- 

 form mark composed of two cinereous connected ringlets with black- 

 ish disks, the fore one much smaller than the hind one. Hind wings 

 aeneous brown ; fringe cinereous, shining. Length of the body 5 

 lines ; of the wings 6 lines. 



G-cn. Nebeissa, n. g. 



Mas. Corpus crassum. Proboscis mcdiocris. Palpi erecti ; articulus 

 3™ conicus, parvus. Antenna vix crenulatac. Abdomen depressum, 

 alas posticas superans, fasciculo apicali compresso. Pedes validi, pi- 

 losi. Ala anticac apice rotundatac, costa recta, margine exteriore vix 

 obliquo. 



Male. Body thick. Proboscis moderately long. Palpi erect, rising as 

 high as the vertex; 3rd joint conical, less than one-fourth of the 

 cngth of the 2nd. Antennae very minutely crenulatc. Abdomen 

 depressed, extending somewhat behind the hind wings ; apical tuft 

 compressed. Legs stout, pilose ; hind tibiae with one spur in each 

 pair full twice the length of the Other. Wings moderately broad. 

 Pore wings rounded at the tips ; costa straight ; exterior border very 

 slightly convex, hardly oblique. 



This genus hardly belongs to the Hadenida. 



2VJ. Nkbrirha bimacula, n. R. Mas. Cincrco-albida, subiridescens, 

 pal pis cxtus fuscis, alis anticis nigro subconspcrsis, lineis tribus den- 



