A. R. Grote's Notes on the Zygaenidse of Cuba. 177 



Head, very large and prominent; eyes, full, larger in the male than 

 in the female ; clypeus narrow. In both sexes the loosely haired palpi 

 are held horizontally, exceeding the front, third article minute. In 

 the female the second palpal article is fringed with rigid hairs, ex- 

 tending forwards beyond the third article, which is held somewhat re- 

 curved. Maxillae, well developed. "Front," loosely scaled in the male, 

 the squammation surrounding and rising in a ridge above the exposed 

 npex of the well developed clypeal tubercle. In the female the squam- 

 mation is smoother and leaves the clypeal tubercle well exposed. The 

 clypeus narrows above towards its posterior edge in the male, round- 

 ing anteriorly ; in the female it is squarer, its sides being parallel. 

 The thorax is stout and broad, loosely and coarsely haired. The abdo- 

 men is destitute of tufts, as is the thoracic disc, and is a little longer 

 than the internal margin of the secondaries. Legs, stout and spinose; 

 in the male the middle and hind tarsi are fringed with long hair, ab- 

 sent in the opposite sex. 



Wings shaped much as in Eudrj/as; in the male they are shorter, 

 roundedly exserted on costa at apical third, and the neuration is pecu- 

 liar and aberrant. There is a stout marginal nervure. A straight 



costal nervure joins the costa before the 

 apical enlargement, the first sub-costal ner- 

 vule is thrown off on the upper side of the 

 nervure, at about its centre, and runs con- 

 tinuous with, and closely approximate to 

 Anterior wing of % Eustirr- tne costa i ner vure, extending beyond the 

 hopierus, enlarged. , , . . . . ' . ,. , 



latter, and joining the costa at immediately 



before, or at the inception of the apical curvature. The second and 

 third s. c. ncrvules are thrown off together at the extremity of the 

 nervure; the second being curved upwards, running approximate to 

 costal curvature; the third, continuous with the main nervure, which 

 is here curved upwards, and joining the margin at before the real apex 

 of the wing or that point which is outermost and which is attained by 

 the fourth s. c. nervule. The fifth s. c. is thrown off at a point on the 

 discal cross-vein, slightly removed from the nervure itself. The sixth, 

 on the lower side of the nervure, is thrown ofT at a point about half 

 way between the first and fourth sub-costal nervules,*and, by intersect- 

 ing the discal cross-vein at right angles, encloses a small sub-costal tri- 

 angular cell, having its reversed apex at this juncture. Both the fifth 

 and sixth s. c. nervules are flexuous and sinuous in their course.* The 



* In the accompanying diagram, otherwise correct, the fourth s. c. nervule 

 is by error also represented a- sinuous. 



PROCEEDINGS i:NT. soi . IIIILAD. JULY, ] SG6. 



