14 ILLUSTRATIONS OP UNFIGURED LEPIDOPTERA. 



Euselasia howlandi A. G. Weeks, Jr. 1 



(Plate VIII, Figure j.) 

 Habitat: Suapure, Venezuela. Expanse: 1.12 inches. 



Head and abdomen mouse color. Palpi white. Thorax mouse color above, 

 with a few lighter hairs ; beneath, grav. Antennae mouse color, with minute 

 white annulations at base of each joint. Club mouse color, tipped with brown. 

 Legs tawny. 



Upper side of fore wing mouse color, excepting an area within a line drawn 

 from base along median nervure to a point one-quarter inch from hind margin, 

 thence downward to inner margin, parallel to hind margin. This area, cover- 

 ing one-third of the total wing area, is light gray, dusted with darker scales 

 near the base. The hind margin has a slight mouse-colored fringe, becoming 

 white near lower angle. 



Upper side of hind wing dark mouse color, the central area very slightly 

 lighter. Hind margin dentated, and with a white fringe. Along the edge is a 

 dark line slightly touched with tawny on basal side, lower margin grayish white. 



Under side of fore wing very light gray, with tawny markings. A prominent 

 tawny line runs from costa downwards across the centre of the discoidal space 

 to the junction of the lower submedian nervule, somewhat concaved, thence 

 straight to inner margin. Beyond this line, nearer apex, is a similar line running 

 from costa downwards across the end of the discoidal space nearly to inner mar- 

 gin. A third line runs from costa to inner margin one-sixteenth inch from hind 

 margin. The interspaces between this line and the line next nearer the base are 

 heavily dashed with tawny, from a line of spots from the costa downward. The 

 central spot of this series, in interspace above the second submedian nervule, 

 is nearly absent. The margin is lined with tawny, the space to the first marginal 

 line being somewhat darker, and dashed with white scales in the interspaces. 



Under side of hind wing very nearly duplicates the under side of fore wing in 

 general appearance. The tawny line first above noted in fore wing is continued, 

 starting on the costa near its base, and running downwards across the centre of 

 the discoidal space, and then disappearing. The next tawny line runs down- 

 wards from the costa across the end of the discoidal space to the first sub- 

 median nervule, where it turns at a right angle and runs to the inner margin. 

 This line is somewhat dentated in the interspaces. The area outside of this, to 

 the marginal line, is very light gray, with a series of interspacial tawny dustings, 

 a continuance of the same in fore wing. The hind margin has a white fringe, 

 within which is a tawny line, and within that a fine, well-developed black thread 

 following the dentated contour of the margin. 



1 Canadian Entomologist, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 3, p. 79, March, 1906. 



