THE CACTUS-FEEDING PHYCITINAE — HEINRICH 349 



tinguishable antemedial line, the latter being replaced by two more 

 or less transversely extended black spots ; subterminal line only par- 

 tially and faintly indicated, irregularly dentate; vein ends marked 

 with blackish dots or dashes; black discal spot large, conspicuous; 

 below the discal dot a more or less extended black smudge. Hind 

 wing white ; a very narrow blackish-fuscous shade on terminal mar- 

 gin and a slightly wider dark shade along costal margin ; cilia white 

 with a dark subbasal line. 



Alar expanse, 35-40 mm. 



Male genitalia figure from specimen from Azuda, Hispaniola. 



Female. — Similar to the male except for the sexual differences in 

 palpi and antemiae noted in the generic description and for the 

 broader diffusion of the dark areas on fore and hind wings. About 

 three-fourths of the fore wing is suffused with black, the pinkish- 

 white color being strongly contrasted and limited to a rather narrow 

 area along the costa, with a triangular projection at the end of the 

 cell ; terminal area and a patch on inner margin opposite discal spot 

 also pale, but duller and less contrasted than the costal color. Hind 

 wing with fuscous terminal and costal dark shading somewhat 

 broader than in the male ; veins outlined by fuscous scaling. 



Alar expanse, 45-47 mm. 



Female genitalia as figured (figs. 11 1 1 a) ; bursa copulatrix with 

 a scattering of microscopic scobinations, otherwise simple; scobina- 

 tions in genital opening stronger and more dense, also in genital 

 opening a few fine setae (the latter probably constitute a generic 

 character) . 



Eggs unknown. 



Larva. — "Cream or buff colored, with dark spiracular markings" 

 (Dodd). 



Tyfe. — In the British Museum. 



Tyfe locality. — ^Hispaniola. 



Food plant. — Opuntia {Platypuntia) sp. 



Distribution. — Santo Domingo: Azuda (Jan.). Haiti: Port-au- 

 Prince (Jan.). 



Seven specimens examined. 



Remarks. — Nothing has been published on the life history of this 

 species, and presumably little is known about it. Wliat information 

 I have on the larvae and larval habits is from notes supplied by Mr. 

 Dodd. The larvae are presumably solitary in habit and confined to 

 the Platypuntias. The distribution of phryganoides is probably con- 

 fined to the West Indies. Druce,° under the combination '■''Euzophera 

 phryganoides^'' records it from two Mexican localities (Presidio and 

 Jalapa) ; but this is an error. His figure suggests that what he iden- 



"Biologia Centrali-Americana, Insecta, Lepldoptera — Heterocera, vol. 2, p. 285, 1896. 



