SKINNER AND WILLIAMS 301 



The uncus is cleft and a substantial scaphium is present at 

 its base; the valve ends in two somewhat complicated spatulate 

 projections; the aedoeagus in remarkable is that it carries inter- 

 nally a sponge-like l^ristling mass, and just before the apical end 

 there are two stout projections of the shape of a bird's head. 

 The congeneric species erosa Hiibner has a similar aedoeagus, 

 containing the hairy mass and j^rovided witli a ])air of stout 

 hooked spines near the apex. 



Records: Texas, Corpus Christi (Aaron), San Antonio; New 

 Mexico, Alamogordo, May (A'icrcck and Rehn) ; ^Iexico, 

 Sonora (^Forrison). 



24. Xenophanes tryxus Cramer (Fig. 2-t.) 



Biol. Ceiit.-Aiiier., Ilhopalocera, pi. 85, fig. 18, (1895). 



This species has neither costal fold nor tibial tuft. From 

 South America, through Central America and Mexico, it enters 

 our territory in Texas. Lindsey gives a figure of the male in 

 his paper. -"^ 



Th(> uncus ])ears a terminal projection split at the apex, and 

 at the base l^earing short lobes; the scaphium is well developed, 

 carrying two apical shagreened lobes; the saccus is broad and 

 extends well into the abdomen; the valve appears to be truncate, 

 the apical margin serrate and bent in two planes, the ventral 

 part carries a rounded, shagreened internal process near the base, 

 and the dorsal i)art a more slender denticulated lobe medianally; 

 the aedoeagus contaiiis a tuft of hairs at the base and some near 

 the apex. 



25. Eantis thraso Hiibner (Fig. 25.) 



Biol. Cent.-Amcr., Rhopaloeera, pi. 87, fig. 7, (1895). 



This species has neither costal fold nor tibial tuft. It is a 

 soutiiern species entering our territory in Texas. In this genus 

 the primaries are pointed at the apex and just below there is a 

 slight excavation on the outer margin. Lindsey gives a figure 

 of the male.-'' 



The uncus is well develo])f'd, carrying a stout blunt beak, and 

 at the base of this a prominent i)air of upright processes like 

 rabbit-ears. These ears seem to ])e characteristic of the genus. 



-' ri. I, lig. A. 

 26 -PI. I, fig. 8. 



TRAN.S. AM. ENT. SOC, XLVUT. 



