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the dark costal scales without separation. Beyond the disc, the white 

 scales again obtain and extend narrowly to costa, which they reach just 

 before the apex. These white central patches are margined interiorly 

 by a dark line and a diffuse obscure olivaceous shade, which latter also 

 clouds the discal spot. Two geminate demi-bands, widely separate, as 

 in the male, and shaded broadly, outwardly, by a continuation of the ob- 

 scure olivaceous tint, which, deepening the color of the wing central- 

 ly, leaves the margins paler. 



Secondaries, very pale yellow, much paler than in Eudryas, with a 

 distinct, even, rather broad and dark brown band along external mar- 

 gin, and which encloses, before anal angle, some paler brown marks, as 

 in the male ; a terminal darker line; fringes whitish. Beneath, the 

 wings are largely pale yellow, the color of the upper surface of the se- 

 condaries, and have powdery brown margins; on the primaries, a dis- 

 cal mark. 



Thorax, colored much as in the male; head, above, clothed with pale 

 scales, which are somewhat whitish. Legs, brownish, slightly fringed 

 with whitish hairs; anterior tibiae outwardly spotted with black ; all 

 the tarsi semi-annulated. Abdomen, concolorous with secondaries, 

 paler beneath, on basal segments two dorsal blackish marks. In the 

 male, the under surface of the wings resembles the upper surface, with 

 obsolete ornamentation. The under thoracic surface and legs are 

 clothed with rough, mixed brownish hair. As in the female, the ante- 

 rior tibiae are spotted with black. Exp. S , 1.60, 9 , 1.80 inch. Length 

 of body, % and $ , 0.75 inch. 



Habitat— Cuba (Poey.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Philad. 



Number 337, Porys MS. Catalogue. 



The structural dissimilarity between the sexes of Euscirrhopterus 

 Poeyi, reminds us of Psychonoctua personalis. Grate, in the Boinby- 

 cidse, and Heliocheilus paradoxus, Grate, in the Noctuidae. 



I dedicate this interesting species to Prof. Felippe Poey, whose "Cen- 

 turie des Lepidopteres de L'ile de Cuba," is a most conscientious addi- 

 tion to our knowledge of West Indian Lepidoptera. 



Sub-Family ZyGyBNIN/E, Packard. 

 HORAMA. Iliibner. 

 This genus, transcribed as "IToramia" by Mr. Walker, in the Brit. 

 Mus. Lists, is established, in the " Verzeichniss," on a single species, 

 Sphinx Pretus, Cramer, Vol. 2, p. 121, plate 175, figs. E, F. Subse- 

 quently. Iliibner refigured the species on one of the Plates belonging 

 to an incomplete third volume of his " Sammlung Exotischer Schmet- 



