CLEAK-WING MOTHS OF FAMILY AEGEKIIDAE 199 



Remarks. — Described from male type, female allotype, 6 male and 13 

 female paratypes from the type locality (J. L. Lauderdale and G. P. 

 Engelhardt). 



ZENODOXUS CANESCENS CANESCENS Hy. Edwards 



Plate 32, Figure 186 



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

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

 McDuNNOUGH, Check list of the Lepidoptera of Canada and the United States 

 of America, pt. 2, No. 8786, 1939. 



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

 p. 316, 1901. 



Male. — Antennae whitish, v^ith dark-gray ciliation. Labial palpi white, 

 sprinkled with black scales. Face white, mixed with black. Crown of 

 head black. Collar whitish. Thorax black overlaid with long, hairlike, 

 whitish scales, extending beyond the posterior edge. Abdomen yellowish 

 gray, slightly sprinkled witli single black scales; anal tuft yellowish gray. 

 Forewing whitish gray, overlaid with blackish-brown scales, especially 

 along the costa ; cilia of dark gray, white-tipped scales. Hindwing trans- 

 lucent, except along costal and anal edges, which are dark gray, as are 

 the veins and the cilia. Legs pepper-and-salt colored with tufts on pos- 

 terior tibiae above the spurs light yellow. 



Female. — Very different from the male and not hitherto described 

 Labial palpi white. Head, thorax, and abdomen pepper-and-salt colored 

 wuth a very slight sprinkling of small reddish scales. Forewing blackish 

 brown, sprinkled with white scales ; a small, nearly triangular area from 

 end of cell to termen white, faintly tinged with rose ; cilia dark brown, 

 tipped with white. Hindwing vivid brick red with dark brown, white- 

 tipped cilia. Posterior tibiae and tarsi tinged with red. 



Alar expanse : Male 20 to 25 mm., female 17 to 21 mm. 



Distribution. — Turkey Creek Canyon, Platte Canyon, Chimney Gulch, 

 Colo. (Oslar) ; Buffalo Valley County, S. Dak. (W. H. Ouer) ; Snowden. 

 Mont. (C. N. Ainsley) ; Kansas; Wyoming. September. 



Type. — Male. In the American Museum of Natural History. 



Remarks. — The relatively smaller size of the female in this and the 

 following three races and species is very exceptional in the family. 



ZENODOXUS CANESCENS SIDAE, new race 



Male. — Labial palpi white sprinkled with black. Forewing darker than 

 in typical canescens with the whitish, triangular area obscured with black 

 scaling. Hindwing darker, deeper red ; cilia black, white-tipped ; anal 

 cilia white. 



Alar expanse: Male 18 to 23 mm., female 17 to 20 mm. 



Foot plant. — Sida hederacea (alkali-mallow). 



Type.— U.S. '^.M. No. 56858. From Blythe, Riverside County, Calif. 

 (C. Dammers). 



