AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 185 



Family ZYGAENIDAE. 

 Subfomily Castniinae. 



Tribe EUDRIINI. 

 EUSCIRRHOPTERTIS, Grote. 

 Euscirrhopterus gloveri, n. s. 



9 . — Size of 9 E. poeyi. Antennae simple. Thorax and head 

 above clothed with mixed brownish scales, beneath, with under surface 

 of abdomen, whitish. Abdomen above yellowish. Legs within clothed 

 with long whitish, shading to griseous, scales; tarsi outwardly black 

 subannukte with white. 



Primaries with the costal region covered with mixed brownish and 

 pale scales to just before the apex. The center of the wing is white, 

 the white scales extending upward and intruding on the costal region 

 before the apex. On this white ground of the wing, on the discal 

 cell, lie the ordinary spots which are distinct, subequal, of the normal 

 shape, brownish, distinctly darker ringed, and with dark centers. Su- 

 periorly they are merged in the dark scales of costal region which ob- 

 tain between them. Terminally the wing is brown outside of the white 

 center, which is edged unevenly. The brown color extends as a darker 

 subterminal shade from the costa at apex, widening as it proceeds to 

 internal margin, which it broadly margins to the base of the wing; 

 centrally the border along internal margin is intruded upon by the 

 white central space which here forms an irregular shallow sinus. The 

 terminal space is paler. A dark interrupted terminal line, obsolete on 

 the nervules and narrowly edged within by pale scales. 



The secondaries are bright yellow, without discal spot, and with a 

 broad, even dark brown border, interrupted before the angle by yellow 

 scales. Fringes whitish, paler than on primaries. A dark and broken 

 terminal line. 



Beneath, both wings are bright yellow, with narrow brownish costal 

 edgings and broad terminal borders tapering to internal and anal 

 angles, and not continued along internal margins. These borders are 

 paler shaded terminally, throwing the regularly interrupted dark ter- 

 minal lines into relief. On the secondaries the border is interrupted 

 by pale scales just before anal angle. Two dark discal spots on pri- 

 maries, the outer larger and diffuse. A single spot on secondaries re- 

 duced in size and situate on the discal cross vein. 



Expanse^ 42 mil. Length of hody, 20 mil. 



Habitat. — Texas, (Prof. Townend Glover). 



Differs from the female of the Cuban E. poeyi, Grote, as follows : 

 The white central space of the primaries is broader, more irregularly 



