NEW ARIZONIAN AND TEXAN MOTHS. 



By a. R. Grote, a, M. 



EUCH^TES ZONALIS. n. S. 



? . Size large ; wings very dark lead color ; primaries with 

 the costa dark yellow ; internal margin not striped ; both wings 

 concolorous, the narrow fringes pale, whitish. Abdomen banded 

 with black and crimson, the latter broadest. Anal hairs whitish. 

 Front dark ; head reddish behind ; thorax with lateral stripes of 

 yellow in front ; disc and tegulae dark lead-color, immaculate. 

 Beneath dark lead color ; legs and body dark ; fringes white, 

 contrasting, as does the white anal tuft ; costa dark yellow as 

 above. 



Arizona. Coll. B. Neumoegen. 



EUCH^TES ViVIDA. n. S. 



6 ? . Fore wings pale stone color, smooth, thinly scaled ; 

 costa and internal margin faintly striped with yellow ; hind wings 

 whitish. Abdomen crimson, unspotted; beneath pale gray ; fore 

 legs reddish at base. Tegulae narrowly edged with crimson ; 

 thorax pale gray. 



South Western Texas. Coll. B. Neumoegen. 



Expanse 33 mil. 



EUCH/ETES PERLEVIS. n. S. 



?. Size small. Fore wings dark fuscous ; the hind wings 

 have a crimson patch on internal margin. Abdomen crimson. 

 Beneath lead color, the patch on hind wings repeated. Veins 

 marked. Wings thinly scaled. Abdomen unspotted; beneath 

 lead color ; thorax head and legs lead color. 



Expanse 25 mil. 



Arizona. Coll. B. Neumoegen. 



Hypopta Henrici. n. s. 



^ ? . Size of Bertholdi, but with the wings much broken up 

 by white. The male, with feathered white-stemmed antennae, is 

 smallest and palest of the two sexes. Costa broadly striped 

 with silvery white ; with fine dark preapical costal dots. The 

 ground is brownish fuscous with an ochery shading ; hind 

 wings dark fuscous in female, pale in male, concolorous. On 

 fore wing the median vein is striped with silvery white ; a ter- 

 minal series of white block-shaped marks; vein i and internal 

 margin irregularly white ; fringes pale. Beneath, markings lost ; 

 fringes white, contrasting. Named for Mr. H. Edwards. 



Arizona. Coll. B. Neumoegen. 



Tarache EXPOIJTA. n. s. 



Fore wings with the costal field, above median vein, white, 

 traversed by the faint double yellowish lines in place of median 

 shade and t. p. line. Anal angle and fringe again forming a 

 white blotch, with the terminal line marked with pale yellow. 

 Else the wing is blackish, scintillant ; at the upper edge it shows, 



