320 A. R. Grote's Notes on the Zygsenidx of Cuba. 



ERITHALES, Poey. 

 Erithales proxima, n. s. 



% . Anterior wings rather pale ashen, evenly and closely grained 

 with darker scales; a distinct black discal dot; faint traces of two 

 extra discal transverse lines, formed by an aggregation of the darker 

 scales ; the inner of these lines appears to be angulated opposite the 

 disc and slightly waved; a terminal series of black points. Posterior 

 wings darker than anterior, brownish cinereous, immaculate. Under 

 surface of both wings darker than secondaries above, without mark- 

 ings, evenly colored, the primaries the darker. Head and thorax, 

 above, nearly concolorous with anterior wings. Antennae plumose. 

 Beneath, the thorax and legs are dull, pale brownish, like the under 

 surface of the wings ; legs a little the darker. Abdomen, above, yel- 

 low, at base covered with longer, pale brownish scales; beneath, the 

 venter is dark brown, margined, laterally, by obscure whitish shade 

 stripes, succeeded by pale brownish stigmatal vittee. Exp., 1.30 inch. 

 Length of body, 0.50 inch. 



Habitat. — Cuba, (Gundlach.) 



Number 649, Gundlaclis MS. Catalogue. 



Somewhat larger than E. guacolda, Poey, and apparently differing 

 specifically by the characters of the paler primaries, which are desti- 

 tute of the numerous black maculations characterizing; Prof. Poev's 

 species, as well as by the obsolescence of the abdominal dorsal dots. 

 This genus is allied to Euchaetes, Harris. 



EUPROCTIS, Ilubner. 

 Euproctis pygmaea, n. s. (Plate 5, fig. 11, % .) 



%. Size, small. White. Primaries pure white above, with abroad, 

 distinct, zig-zag, perpendicular streak of bright ferruginous scales, rest- 

 ing on the internal margin within the angle. On the median nervules. 

 superiorly, slight aggregations of similarly colored scales. Fringes, 

 rather long, white. Beneath, whitish, with a cinereous or smoky 

 tinge, which deepens into blackish along the costa. 



Secondaries, above and beneath, whitish, with a faint, smoky tin^e ; 

 fringes long, white. Antennae, rather short, pectinate, curved in the 

 specimen so that the tips approach each other ; the pectinations arc 

 blackish; at base, the antennal stem, above, is covered with white scales. 

 Head, comparatively large, clypeus wide, smoothly scaled as are the 

 small palpi — all white. Abdomen concolorous with secondaries above 

 and beneath ; shorter than internal margin of secondaries. Legs, 

 white, mostly finely scaled; tibiae, and tarsi at base, heavily fringed 



