XEROCIRIS. — EtTDRYAS. 



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antennae brown ; patagia pure white ; legs white, the tarsi with 

 brown marks on the joints ; abdomen white with the dorsal crests 

 black-brown. Fore wing silvery white ; grey subbasal spots below 

 costa' and cell ; a blackish fascia mixed with olive-green on costal 

 area from before to beyond middle conjoined to the elliptical 

 orbicular and the rather large reniform stigmata which are olive- 

 green ; an olive-green antemedial bar with a silvery purple-grey 

 patch on it from submedian fold to inner margin along which it is 



Fig. 1S9. — Xerociiis vihoni, c?. \. 



continued as a fascia to the terminal band, which has a sinuous 

 olive-green line on its inner edge and is deep purple-grey with 

 some white dentate marks and a fine line on termen ; cilia purple- 

 grey with two fine pale lines through them. Hind wing pure 

 white with a chocolate-red patch on termen from tornus to vein 2 

 and a point above vein 2 ; cilia purple-grey at the red patch. 



Hal. U.S.A., Texas, Shovel Mts., 2 tf . Exp. 40-44 millim. 



Larva. Head reddish brown with a black spot on the face of 

 each lobe. Body robust, enlarged at joint 12, purplish black, each 

 segment with a transverse red patch subventrally and a complete 

 band on joint 12 ; several narrow transverse white lines on each 

 segment; on the thorax and on joint 12 several of the setae are 

 very long and flattened, spatulate ; shields and feet red, tipped 

 with black.— H. G. D. 



Genus EUDRYAS. 



Type. 



Euthisanotia, Hubn. Samml. Exot, Schmett. Zutr. iii. p. 12 (1827), 

 non descr unto. 



Eudryas, Boisd. Spec. gtsn. Lep. i. p. 4 (1836), non descr.; Wlk. 



ix. 143(1856) '.. unio. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 middle of frons and moderately fringed with scales in front, the 3rd short ; 

 Irons with large rounded prominence with raised edges at extremity and 

 corneous plate below it ; eyes large, round ; antenna; of male ciliated ; thorax 

 clothed with rough hair and scales mixed, the protborax without crest, the 

 metathorax with spreading crest; fore tibiae with very large tufts of hair on 

 outer side, the mid and hind tibia; moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with 

 dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen 

 evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the "reole ; 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins J3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent 

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