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THE GENUS GLOVERIA, Packd. 



By Henry Edwards. 



This interesting- genus of BoMBVCiDyE was first characterised by Dr. 

 Packard in the 4th Ann. Rept. Peabody Ac. Sc. 1871, p. 89, and was 

 founded upon a 9 specimen taken by Dr. Pahner on the border of 

 Arizona and New Mexico. The single species then known was called 

 by its describers Gloveria Arizonensis and has hitherto been one of the 

 greatest rarities among N. American Lepidoptera. An excellent fig- 

 ure of it is given by Mr. H. Strecker, in "Lepidopt. Rhop. et Heteroc. 

 Plate 15" and in "Papilio, Vol. i, p. 100." I have fallen into the some- 

 what careless error of redescribing the $ as an example of the other 

 sex. Mr. A. R. Grote also, in "Papilio, Vol. i, p. 175," compares 

 his Quadrina Diazoma, with Gloveria, from which he says his genus 

 differs "by the larger head, broader clypeus and smoother body cloth- 

 ing". Mr. Grote' s example of Qziadrina was also a V taken by Prof 

 Snow in New Mexico, and I have very little doubt that when the $ is 

 known the genus will be found to be identical with Gloveria. So far^ 

 this is all that has been recorded with reference to this beautiful and 

 interesting group. The discovery by Mr. J. Doll, two years ago, of 

 the $ of G. Arizonensis (differing in a most remarkable degree from 

 the other sex) and the still more recent capture of the other species in 

 both sexes by Mr. W. Schaus, Jr., in the state of Vera Cruz, Mexico, 

 have given us a better guidance to a knowledge of the group than we 

 heretofore possessed. Of course, the diagnosis of the genus from one 

 sex alone (and particularly in the BoMBYClD^) is bound to be incom- 

 plete and unsatisfactory, and I deem myself justified in adding to Dr. 

 Packard' s description, at the same time taking the liberty of copying the 

 same in full, so that the present paper may contain as complete inform- 

 ation as can be given with reference to the insects under consideration. 



GLOVERIA. nov. gen. 



" Head nearly as large as Lasiocampa. Eyes a little smaller, front 

 broad between the eyes. Antennae much as in Lasiocampa, but the 

 pectinations about three times as long as the joints from which they 

 arise, and pectinated to the tip. Palpi unusually small, short, ends 

 rather blunt, not reaching the front, a little depressed. Body stout. 

 Wings unusually long and narrow; fore wings long, costa well curved 

 beyond the middle; apex rather produced, sub-acute, outer edge un- 

 usually oblique, of about the same length as the inner; hind wings long, 

 very obtuse and much rounded at the apex, when expanded not reach- 

 ing to the tip of the abdomen. Venation much as in Lasiocampa, but 



