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NOTES ON A FEW BOMBYCOID MOTHS FROM 

 GRANT COUNTY, NEW MEXICO. 



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 In the Kntomological Collection of the New Mexico Experi- 

 ment Station, I find a box of specimens labelled (".rant County, 

 N. M. They were, I believe, collected by Mr. W. J. Howard, and 

 received by the N. M. College from the Hon. W. G. Rich, The 

 IJombycoid moths in the box belong to four species, as named 

 below. 



Daritis thetis A7//<,^ — This species was introduced to our fauna 

 by Mr. H. Edwards in Dec. 1886, on the strength of two specimens 

 taken in New Mexico by Mr. Wilson Howard. The locality was 

 not precisely indicated, and the specimens were made the types of 

 a new var. howardi. Mr. Dyar tells me that he has not heard of 

 any other examples of this variety. The specimen from Grant 

 Co. is probably best referred to var. hotvanli, having the secon- 

 daries decidedly ochre-yellow on the disc ; but the bands on the 

 primaries are white with only a faint creamy tinge. 



Alypioides crescens {JValker) var.* I!)iffering from the type in 

 having the secondaries entirely without the yellow patch above, 

 although the fringe is partly yellow. On the underside of the 

 secondaries the yellow patch appears as an elongated mark, 2 mm. 

 long. Expanse, 46 mm. I sent an account of this specimen to 

 Mr. Dyar, and he informs me that he has seen none like it. 



Cymbalophora proxima Giier., var. ?— I had taken this for a form 

 oi phyllira, but Mr. Dyar, to whom I sent some account of it, urges 

 that it must rather be proxima. In this he is doubtless correct, as 

 it agrees sufificiently well with the description of that species, 

 except that the last segment of the abdomen is by no means wholly 

 black above, the lateral tufts being pale ochrcous. The second 

 line is wanting above the longitudinal streak, except for a small 

 mark on the costa. The ground color of the hind wings is pale 

 creamy. Expanse, 36 mm. 



Arachnis zuni Ncum. — One specimen, which I take to be a male, 

 agrees with the figure in Journ. X. Y. Ent. Soc, Vol. I, PI. i, t. 2. 

 A second example, doubtless a female, differs considerably. Mr. 



* This is Alypioides hiiiuuuhita 11. -S. {= Alypia himaculata Boisd.. Kirby's 

 Catalogue, p. 34) fiom Mexico. I tliink this is the first record of its occurence in 

 the United States. Harrison G. Dyar. 



