172 BULLETIN 190, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



EUHAGENA NEBRASKAE INTENSA, new form 



Plate 29, Figure 172 



Female. — Wings brilliant red, narrowly banded with black costa 

 and margins ; the very small discal mark black and the fringes brown- 

 black. Abdomen black with steel-blue reflections ; segment 4 narrowly 

 banded with pearly white above and beneath. 



Expanse: Female 24 mm. 



Distribution. — San Bernardino County, Calif. 



Type.— U.S. ^M. No. 56850, female. 



Remarks. — For this unique and strikingly colored example, I am in- 

 debted to my good friend C. M. Dammers, of Riverside, Calif., who 

 collected the specimen in the mountains at Barnwell, San Bernardino 

 County, on Otcober 12, 1936. It is the first record for the genus 

 Enhagena in California. 



EUHAGENA HIRSUTA, new species 



Plate 29, Figure 173 



Male. — Antennae black, broadly bipectinate, the pectinations less ap- 

 pressed than in nehraskae. Labial palpus covered with long hair, which 

 is mostly white but black at the sides ; terminal joint pale yellow, touched 

 with black. Head black, but obscured by long white hair with a slight 

 mixture of black on vertex and in occipital fringe ; face white. Collar 

 black with a few yellowish-white scales at the sides. Thorax black, densely 

 clothed with long white hair in a grizzly effect ; at anterior wing base 

 spotted, and underside largely patched with white. Abdomen black, seg- 

 ments 1, 2, and 3 diffused with white hair, posterior segments less so; 

 segments 2, 4, 5, 6, and 7 encircled with white, the band on segment 4 

 the broadest ; anal tuft short, rounded, compressed at the sides, sordid 

 white centrally, black laterally. Legs hairy, whitish, except the tarsi, 

 which are yellowish white and black ; posterior tibiae with long hair, 

 mostly sordid white, yellowish at lower spurs, above and outwardly, not 

 inwardly. Forewing pearly translucent ; costa, cubitus, outer margin, 

 and inner margin to discal mark black ; inner margin from discal mark 

 to black wing base orange-yellow ; discal mark orange-yellow, edged with 

 black inwardly ; fringes gray-white ; underside mostly white and yellowish 

 white, discal mark pale yellow. Hindwing pearly translucent, with a 

 narrow black margin and grayish-white fringes ; pure \^•hite basally ; discal 

 mark not conspicuous, pale yellow, edged with black. 



Expanse : Male 20 mm. 



Distribution. — Texas. 



Ty/)^.— U.S.N.M. No. 5685 L 



Remarks. — The male type and only example is so distinctive as to 

 v.-arrant specific recognition. The specimen was captured by the late 

 O. C. Poling, a well-known professional collector at Fort Davis, Davis 



