NO. 3546 MOTHS OF GENUS EUSCEPTIS — TODD 6 



alular fan of very large scales. Abdomen clothed with hair and scales, 

 no dorsal tufts present, terminal tufts about genitalia in males of 

 e_ffusa and atriora. Legs rather stout, tarsus longer than tibia; tibia 

 of foreleg about half as long as femur, bearing a well-developed 

 epiphysis, tibia of middle and hindlegs longer; inner spurs of pairs 

 on middle and hindlegs about twice as long as outer spur; tibia of 

 middle leg rough scaled with median and apical tufts. Forewing 

 traingular, apex rounded, termen rounded except slightly excavate 

 before tornus, inner margin slightly sinuous, excavate distally; hind- 

 wing more or less rounded, very slightly angled at Cui, inner margin 

 expanded over abdomen in efusa and atriora, a hair pencil on ventral 

 surface of expansion; venation of general noctuid type, forewing 

 with R3 from II2 adnate with R4 to form small elliptical accessory 

 cell, R3 stalked with R4 for one-fourth their length from apex of 

 accessory cell, stalk of R3-]-R4 connate with R5 at apex of accessory 

 cell, Ml from mdc slightly below accessory cell, M2 from just above 

 lower angle of discal cell, M3 from lower angle of discal cell, Cuj from 

 just basad of lower angle of discal cell, M2 and Cui approximately 

 equidistant from one another, Ri and Cu2 from the outer third of the 

 two sides of the discal cell; hmdwing with Rs and Mi connate from 

 upper angle of discal cell, M2 from below middle of discoceliulars, 

 very weak or partially obsolescent, parallel to M3, M3 and Cui connate 

 or shortly stalked from lower angle of discal cell; length of forewing 

 9 to 17 mm. 



Male genitalia with moderate, slightly curved uncus, uncus with a 

 minute hooked spine at apex, a row of basally directed spines along 

 either ventrolateral margin of uncus; scaphium of two straplike 

 sclerotizations, each termmating in a dense hair tuft; juxta irregidarly 

 diamond shaped with an elongate, dorsal, straplike sclerotization; 

 valves moderately large, widest just before apex, interfacial processes 

 when present usually asymmetrical, saccvdus well developed, usually 

 bearing a large apical or costal spine, a large clasper usually present 

 on one or both valves, absent in E. irretita Hiibner; when present 

 apex usually hooked, length of clasper usually bearing a row of 

 fascicles of hair and frequently a row of sclerotized triangular denta- 

 tions; corona short, consisting of about 10 spines, absent in E. irretita 

 and E. koehlen, new species, coronal spines nearly as long as width 

 of corona; aedeagus moderate, slightly shorter than valve, slightly 

 sinuous, largest at apex, vesica with scobinate areas but no conspicuous 

 cornuti. Female genitalia with valve of ovipositor roundly pointed, 

 moderately sclerotized bearing rows or clumps of large setae basally 

 and clumps of smaller setae distally, posterior apophyses slightly 

 longer than anterior pair; posterior margin of seventh abdominal 

 sternite usually emarginate medially, the lateral lobes thus formed 



