me:\i()irs of the national academy of sciences. 187 



Mr. (iraefs six'cimeiis were rec^eived from Tt'xas. He remarks: "I received more tliaii a 

 dozen si)eciineiis Irom Texas, and they are all of this form and constant; //. uuroni is a totally 

 different species." 1 took it for granted that this form was distinct from aurora, l)nt renewed 

 examination makes me inclined to regard it as a variety. 



Mrs. Slosson, who tells nie -she has seen in Florida hnndreds of the normal //. auroni, tliinks 

 this variety is distinct. The following description of H. perophoroldvH is drawn ui) from eight i and 

 one 9 in her collection. In life I\Irs. Slosson has noticed that the tliorax is l)athed with a glancous 

 green tinge, which extends to the base of the fore wings, but disai)i)ears as the moth dies. Antenna' 

 ])lumose. Head in front and markings on the wing rich pale wine red : head abo\e, thorax, and 

 ground color of the wings fawn-brown. Pore wings uniforndy fawn-brown, two deeply stained, 

 winered, narrow, distinct transverse lines, nearly parallel, passing from the inner side of tlie wing 

 to the costal edge, and a third concolorous line starting from the junction of the median vein and 

 the inner line and ending on the costal edge nearly halfway from base of wing to the end of tlie 

 line it Joins. (Tliese lines are situated exactly as in the normal examples of H. utirora.) Hind wings 

 suffused with ]>ale wiue-red on the outer fourth. 



In two S the entire fore wings are imiformly sulfused with pale claretred, and in one S the 

 wings are suffused nitli the same tint, but the sjiace between the thi-ee lines are deep, dull, wine, brick 

 red. like the lines themselves, the band being about twice as broad on the costal as on the hind edge. 



Underside: Fore wings deep wine-red, paler along the outer margin : hind wings whitish, with 

 reddish scales on tiie costal edge. 



(Ii'oijnijililail (listrihutiiiii. — !'"lorida (Mrs. Slosson) and Texas (Helfrage, Crraef Coll.); Texas 

 (French). 



Hyparpax vemis ]S'enmoeg'eu. 



(PI, VII, tig. 18.) 



Hyparimx reniis Neiim., Can. Ent., xxiv, (i. 226, Sept., 1802. 



Piihu, Jonrn. N. York V.nt. Soc. i. p. 20. March, 1893 (PI. I, fig. 4). 



Neiiiii. and Dyar. Trails. Auier. Ent. .Soc, xxi. p. 186, 189J ; .lonrn. N. Y. Eut. Soc, ii, p. 114, 

 Sept., 1894. 



Math. — '-Head yellowish with rose center; antenna' light brown: eyes black; collar, thorax, 

 patagia, as well as ))rimaries, of beautiful light rose color; nerves concolorous; fringes whitish. 

 Beyond median cell, from costa to inner margin, a transverse white line, slightly bending 

 inwai'dly at its center. 



''Secondaries and nerves white, with a rose-colored marginal line along costa and margin to 

 anal angle. A rose tint along anterior margin, fading toward center. 



" Abdomen yellowish-white, with rose anal tuft. 



"Below, primaries and secondaries of yellowish white, with concolorous nerves and fringes. 

 Costa rose and broad marginal rose tints, especially so on primaries, fading toward center. 



"Legs ro.se colored; prominent yellowish-white tibial spines. 



"Expanse of wings, 30 mm.; length of body, 9 mm. 



"Habitat: Colorado. Type, <? , Coll. B. Neumoegen. 



"It seems to be a rare species, for Mr. Bruce only caught one last year, and this summer 

 only live specimens, among which one 2 , which, as he writes me, tallies in all details with the <5 . 

 Its uame is warranted by its beauty." 



Euhypai'pax lieutenuiiiller. 

 Euhyparpax Beut., Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., v, p. 19, Feb., 1893. 



"Primaries twice as long as broad; costa almost straight, very slightly concave about the 

 middle ; apex pointed ; outer margin slightly rounded ; inner angle obliciuelj- rounded. Secondaries 

 reaching to the inner angle of the i)rimaries, apex acutely I'ounded, outer margin almost oblique, 

 hind angle rounded. Body ( (5 ) slender, extending beyond the secondaries; anal tuft obsolete. 

 Legs pilose, femora and tibia? covered with long ciliated hairs, tarsi covered only with very short 

 scales. Head dejjressed. i)alpi very short and barely visible, owing to the scales (•overiug the same 

 and the thorax. Antenna^ half as long as the primaries; stalk stout, with the pectinations to about 

 the middle of equal length, when they very gradually decrea.se in length to about 2 mm. before the 

 apex, which portion is without pectinations. The genus is allied to Eyjxtrpa.r.'^ (Beutenmiiller.) 



