NO. 3560 AGARISTINE MOTHS—TODD 7 
Euscirrhopterus klagesi Jordan 
Euschirropterus [sic] klagest Jordan, 1908, Nov. Zool., vol. 15, p. 254, pl. 11, fig. 9.— 
Strand, 1912, Lepidopterorum catalogus, pt. 5, p. 28.—Draudt, 1919, in 
Seitz, Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde, vol. 7, p. 4, pl. 1, row e—Hampson, 
1920, Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum, 
Supplement, vol. 2, p. 583 (in error as synonym of H. valkeri [sic] Hampson). 
Euschirropterus [sic] poeyt pulverosa Dyar, 1914, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 47, 
no. 2050, p. 175. [New synonymy.] 
This species was placed in the synonymy of £. valkeri Hampson by 
Hampson in 1920, but that synonymy is erroneous for typical klagesi. 
Jordan had only females for study and considered the differences 
observed as subspecific when he described EH. klagesi and E. klagesi 
tucumanus. ‘The two names do not apply to the same species. The 
differences in maculation between the two species are greater for the 
males than for the females (figs. 1-4). The females of klagesi differ 
from those of walkert tucumanus as follows: The distal part of the 
forewing from the tornus to the middle of the termen is suffused with 
white scales; the inner edge of the dark marginal band of the hindwing 
is rather dentate before the terminal orange spot, the width of the 
marginal band is about one-fourth the length of the wing, the fringe 
whitish from the apex to the terminal orange spot; the yellow of the 
undersurface of the hindwing usually extends across vein Se+R, 
toward the costa in the postmedial area. In females of walkeri 
tucumanus the distal part of the forewing is nearly uniformly dark 
except the small white area basad of the dark terminal spot before the 
tornus; the marginal band of the hindwing is smoother along the inner 
edge, wider, the width about one-third the length of the wing, the 
fringe dark; the yellowish orange of the lower surface of the hindwing 
usually does not cross vein Sc+R, in the postmedial area. The male 
of klagesi differs considerably from that of walkeri tuceumanus; in fact, 
it resembles that sex of poeyi, but the hindwing does not possess a 
dark marginal band, and it has but a single, well-developed, orange 
terminal spot. The male of walkeri tucumanus is smaller and re- 
sembles the females more in maculation. 
The illustration of the female of klagesi provided by Jordan agrees 
with the females of the type series of H. poeyi pulverosa Dyar. Accord- 
ingly, I do not hesitate to place pulverosa in the synonymy of klagest. 
Dyar indicated some of the differences between the females of pul- 
verosa and poeyi; for example, the dark line separating the white area 
of the forewing from the dark area in pocyi is absent in pulverosa, and 
the reniform and orbicular spots of the forewing are shaped differently 
(figs. 4, 6, 7). In addition, the females of pulverosa (=klagest) have 
only a single, distinct, marginal, black point on the termen of the 
forewing, a single yellow spot in the dark marginal band of the hind- 
