318 A. R. Grote's Holes on the Zygscnidse. of Cuha. 



two supra-lateral brownish anuuli, and fringed with brown scales. 

 Abdomen, above, dull brownish ochraceous; this darker color very 

 neatly defined, and contrasted with the whitish, clay-colored squamma- 

 tion of the under and lateral abdominal surfaces. Legs, testaceous 

 clay-colored, interruptedly maculate and annulate with brown ; fore 

 femora distinctly ochreous on the inside. Exp., 1.80 inch. Length 

 of body, 0.70 inch. 



Habitat. — Cuba, (Gundlach.) 



Number |||, Poey's and Gundlach' s MS. Catalogues. 



The smallest species of the genus yet discovered. The banded legs 

 and distinct markings of the primaries are sufficiently characteristic. 

 The upper surface of secondaries and abdomen are slightly mure ob- 

 scurely colored than usual. 



Euhalisidota alternata, n. s. (Plate 5, fig. 10, $ •) 



9 . Size, large. Primaries, white, with bright brown bands. These 

 are, as usual, six in number, but want the usual geminate, marginal, 

 narrow, darker lines. The basal band is strongly dentate superiorly, 

 the outer projection fusing with the second band, interrupted with 

 white interiorly and obsolete below internal nervure. The second band 

 is broad, outwardly projected on the discal cell, and below the median 

 nervure is inwardly arcuate to internal margin, where it is fused with 

 the third band. Below the median nervure it is slightly interrupted 

 with white scales. The third band is approximate to the second, and 

 consists of two broad, bright brown, marginal scalloped bands or lines ; 

 the space between these is white, except on costa and internal margin, 

 where it is filled in with concolorous bright brown. The appearance 

 of this band is suggestive of the fact, that the bands are in reality 

 similarly composed with those in the other species, but that the marginal 

 lines are broader, and the bands being generally filled in with con- 

 colorous scales, are hence more homogenous in appearance. The fourth 

 band is irregularly margined, entirely filled in with bright brown 

 scales, and, with the fifth and sixth, more oblique and even than the 

 basal bands. The fifth, is narrower, with a few central pale scales, and 

 interrupted obsoletely above first median nervule. The sixth, is pro- 

 duced inwardly on the nervules, broadest at apex and tapering to in- 

 ternal angle, before which it becomes obsolete. Terminally the white 

 color narrowly prevails on the interspaces. Fringes, white, interrupted 

 with brown at apex and iuterspaceally, except between fourth median 

 nervule and internal angle. Under surface, whitish; the markings of 

 the upper surface are here faintly reproduced. 



