A. R. Grote's Notes on the Zygaenulse of Cuba. 3 19 



Posterior wings, whitish testaceous, thinly clothed with scales, 

 which, however, become longer interiorly and at base, where they are 

 slightly tinged with yellowish. Under surface, whitish, with two cos- 

 tal brown macular diseolorations, of which the one nearest the base of 

 the wing is much the larger. Head, whitish; clypeus narrower than 

 usual; brown between the antenna? at base. " Collar," white, with two 

 diffuse brown annulate marks. Patagia and thorax, whitish, with 

 brown diffuse markings. 



Antennae, long, whitish clay-color above; beneath very shortly and 

 finely pectinate. Abdomen, stout, ochreous above, whitish laterally and 

 beneath with diffuse central and lateral brownish markings. Legs, 

 whitish clay-color, interruptedly maculate with brownish. Anterior 

 coxa?, femora and tibia?, ochreous on the inside, as are also very nar- 

 rowly the middle and hind femora. Exp., 2.10 inches. Length of 

 body, 0.85 inch. 



Habitat. — Cuba, (Gundlach.) 



Number 743, Gundlach' s MS. Catalogue. 



A very fine and distinct species, differing from the other species of 

 this genus, in the slightly smaller head and finely pectinate antennae. 

 There is great uniformity in the coloration of the abdomen and legs in 

 the species of Euhalisidota, and E. alter nata, hardly differs from the 

 rest of the genus in this respect. The palpi have been broken off in 

 my specimen, which is otherwise in fine preservation. The abdomen 

 is very stout with the same mealy squammation, and the species seems 

 strictly congeneric with E. luxa, and the others that I have described 

 under the genus Euhalisidota, Grote. 



NELPHE, Boisd. 

 Nelphe confinis. 



Charidea {Nelphe) confinis, II-S., Lep. Exot., pp. 74 & 81, fig. 277. 



Dr. Gundlach sends me an old and faded 9 specimen which, while 

 evidently belonging to this genus, I conclude belongs to the species 

 figured by Dr. Herrich-Schaeffer as above cited. The black colors of 

 the wings have become of a faded brown by etiolation. The genus 

 falls in between Halisidota and Erithales, and is perhaps the last of a 

 number of genera which prepare us for Erithales, from which latter 

 genus Nelphe seems to take the peculiar abdominal style of ornamenta- 

 tion. 



Habitat. — Cuba, (Gundlach.) 



Number |§9, Gundlach and Pocy's MSS. Catalogue. 



