COPIDRYAS. — EUSCHIRROPTERUS. 583 



middle of body. Adult : pale grey or dull white with black dashes 

 on side of each somite and with shadings of salmon-pink. 



Papa in a tubular burrow with gummed lining and closed with 

 particles of earth. 



*154 a. Copidryas cosyra. 

 / i cosyra, Drucc, Biol. Centr.-Am., Hot. ii. p. 328, pi. 70. f. 4 

 (1890). 



5- Head and thorax dark reddish brown mixed with grey; 

 abdomen orange, the ventral surface white. Fore wing dark brown 

 thickly irro rated with grey scales and with pale olive scales above 

 and below the white fascia which arises from just below costa near 

 base, then widens and extends from just above median nervure to 

 submedian fold to the end of cell, then bent upwards and narrow- 

 ing to a point on costa before apex, dilated beyond lower angle of 

 cell and its lower edge strongly excised between submedian told and 

 vein 3 and slightly between veins 3 and I ; traces of a dark-defined 

 reniform stigma; a silvery blue line on outer side of the white 

 Pascia from costa to vein 5; a waved dark terminal line slightly 

 defined by white towards tornus. Hind winy orange with a 

 fuscous terminal band, its inner edge angled on veins 2 and 1 and 

 not quite reaching tornus; a waved orange almost terminal line 

 obsolescent towards apex; cilia white, blackish towards tornns. 

 Underside of fore wing orange; the orbicular and reniform blackish, 

 the former small round, the latter oblique, lunulate ; terminal area 

 Eus sous shading to yellowish white at termen. 



Rab. U.S.A., Arizona; Mexico (Trujillo), 1 ?, type fin U.S. 

 Nat. Mus. Exp. 44' millim. 



The frontal process is shorter than in C. glove ri J and rounded 

 at extremity, as also is the case in the female of gloveri. 



Larva. Kunze, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. xiv. p. 133 (190G). 



Olivaceous brown ; head with triangular white mark at middle ; 

 body with the dorsal line white, interrupted ; subdorsal line white ; 

 each somite with transverse series of short black tubercles ringed with 

 white and with white hair from each. Food-plant, Opuntia arbus- 

 cula. 



155. Euschirropterns valkeri, insert (syn.) : — 



Wuschirropterus klagesi, Jord. Nov. Zool. xv. p. 254 (1908). 



Venezuela, type fin Coll. Rothschild; Ecuador. 



subsp. tucumanus, Jord. Nov. Zool. xv. p. 254 (1908). 



2 . Kind wing with the spot on termen in submedian fold creamy 

 white. 



Rab. Argentina, Tucuman, type f in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 

 42 millim. 



ab. fusca, Jord. Nov. Zool. xv. p. 255 (1908). 



Fore wing with the white fascia suffused with brown and irro- 

 rated with white. 



