38 ZYGiENIDiE AND BOMBYCIDyE 



2.-GN0PH^LA HOPFFERI. (Pi. 2, fig. 2.) 

 ? Glaucopis lahpenm's, Boisd., Lep. Cal, p. 27. (1852.) 

 Gnophccla Hopfferi, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, vol. i, p. 332. 

 (1868.) 



" (5 . $ . — Size large. Head black. Labial palpi black, except at 

 base, where they are powdered with orange-yellow scales. Sides of the 

 pro-thorax orange yellow, which color extends between the anterior 

 legs at base. Legs black, slighdy touched with white ; the minute 

 spurs on middle and hind tibise are white. Thoracic region, above 

 and beneath, black. Abdomen cyanous black; a white, lateral, stig- 

 matal line, as in G. vermiculata. Wings large and full. Primaries 

 trigonate, brownish black, with three dull, lemon-yellow spots at the 

 middle, divided by the median nervure and its fourth nervule; between 

 this latter at base, and the continuation of the nervure, the outer and 

 smallest is placed. The upper spot, at the outer extremity of the discal 

 cell, is restricted as in G. sequinoctialis. Over the nervules, terminally, 

 is an oblique series of four interspaceal, unequal, ovate, yellow spots, 

 of which the second and largest is placed opposite the discal cell; these 

 spots are further apart than in G. ^quinoctialis or G. vermiculata. 

 Secondaries resembling primaries in coloration and ornamentation, 

 but with a very faint bluish reflection. A large central, yellow patch, 

 analagous to the spots at the middle of primaries, is divided by the 

 median nervure into two unequal spots, while the third, at the base of 

 the fourth median nervule, is obsolete. Two ovate yellow spots are 

 situated opposite the disc, and are separated by the black, first median 

 nervule. Under surface of both wings resembling upper. The fringes 

 on either pair are black, faintly touched with white at the apices of pri- 

 maries and costal angles of secondaries." (Grote, loc. cit. ) 



Expanse of ivings, 5 , 2.10; ? 2.30 inches. Length of body, $ , 0.75; 



$ , 0.80 inch. 

 Habitat. — California. (Coll. Edwards, Behrens, Behr, etc.) (Coll. 



Mus. Berol., and Dr. Felder, Vienna, auth. Grote. ) 



This fine species was named by Mr. Grote after Mr. C. Hopffer, 

 the well-known Lepidopterist of Berlin. It was readily distinguished 

 from G. vermiculata, by its superior size, the deeper tint, of the yellow 

 markings and the larger proportion of black in the coloration ; the ex- 

 ternal marsfin of the secondaries is also more angulated than in the lat- 



