CLEAR-WING MOTHS OF FAMILY AEGERITDAE 197 



1 male and 4 female reared paratypes from Bakersville, Oreg. (Engel- 

 hardt). 



ZENODOXUS HEUCHERAE Hy. Edwards 



Zenodoxus heucherae Hy. Edwards, Papilio, vol. 1, p. 205, 1881. — Beutf.nmuller, 

 Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 4, p. 175, 1892; vol. 8, p. 148, 1896.— Mc- 

 DuNNOUGH, Check list of the Lepidoptera of Canada and of the Uniled States 

 of America, pt. 2, No. 8784, 1939. 



Zenodoxus potentillae Hy. Edwards, Papilio, vol. 1, p. 205, 1881. — Beutenmuller, 

 Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. vol. 4, p. 175, 1892; vol. 8, p. 148, 1896. 



Paranthrene heucherae Beutenmuller, Mem. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. vol. 1, pt. 6, 

 p. 315, pi. 2,2, fig. 14, 1901. 



Labial palpus yellow, with tentiinal joint mottled with black; head 

 and thorax golden brown ; collar pale yellow ; abdomen with second and 

 last four joints broadly pale yellow and the intermediate joints mottled 

 with yellow scales. Forewing golden bronze, blackish at base. Hind- 

 wing opaque, bronzy brown ; underside golden yellow. Legs black with 

 yellow bands. 



Expanse: 18 to 24 mm. 



Distribution. — Lake Tahoe, Calif. Moths frequent flowers of Heii- 

 cliera ruhesccns. 



Type.- — Known only from the types and paratypes of Z. heucherae and 

 Z. potentiUac. 2 males and 3 females, in the American Museum of Natural 

 History. 



ZENODOXUS PALMII (Neumoeeen) 



Plate 12, Figures 57, 57a; Plate 16, Figure 87 



Larutida pabnii Neumoegen, Ent. News, vol. 2, p. 108, 1891. 



Zenodoxus palmii Beutenmuller, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 8, p. 148, 1896. 



Paranthrene palmii Beutenmuller, Mem. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 1, pt. 6, p. 316, 



pl. 32, fig. 15, 1901. 

 Paranthrene paliiiiana Dalla Torre, Lepidopterorum catalogus, j)t. 31, Aegeriidae, 



p. 160, 1925. 

 Zenodoxus palmi McDunnough, Check list of the Lepidoptera of Canada and of 



the Uniled States of America, pt. 2, No. 8785, 1939. 



Male. — Antennae slightly pectinate. Palpi light red. Head black, 

 collar yellow. Thorax black, overcast with red. Abdomen yellow, with 

 first and fourth segments black^ and anal ttift red ; venter of abdomen 

 yellow, dusted with red. Legs brownish red ; fringes black. Forewing 

 slender, of a reddish tinge overcast with black, especially along costa, apical 

 space and exterior margin. Hindwing about one-third broader than fore- 

 wing, bright red ; basal half hyaline ; black shades at apex, exterior margin 

 and anal angle. Underside of forewing black, shading into red at base, 

 costa and exterior margin ; of hindwing red, hyaline basally, nervures and 

 fringes black. 



* It is evident from the type specimen.s that Neumoegen had these two color words trans- 

 posed in his manuscript. 



