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Palpi slightly upturned, clothed with long hairs beneath on the first and second joints, third 

 joint long and bare. Head, thorax, femora, and tibiae with long hairs. Antennae of almost 

 equal thickness throughout, with very long appressed cilia in the male, simple in the female. 

 Tongue absent. Abdomen with appressed hairs ; anal tuft flat and fan like in the male, straight and 

 not prominent in the female. Fore wings with 12 veins, R 4 and R 5 stalked. Hind wings with vein 

 Cu 2 from cell, M 3 andCuj from angle of cell. Veins Sc and R coalescent. Discocellulars very oblique. 



Type : Euhagena nebraskce Hy. Edwards. 



Euhagena nebraskae Hy. Edw. 



Plate XXXI, Fig. 32, Male. 



Euhagena, nebraskce Hy. Edwards, Papilio, Vol. I, 188 1, p. 181; Grote, New Check List N. Am. 



Moths, 1882, p. 11 ; Beutenmuller, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. Vol. VIII, 1896, p. 116. 

 Pyrrhotcenia coloradensis Beutenmuller, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. Vol. V, 1893, p. 25 ; 



Gillette, Bull. 43 Agricul. Coll. Colorado, 1898, p. 6. 



Male.— Head black with the face and palpi white, the latter with long black hairs beneath. 

 Thorax velvety black with faint indications of a few whitish hairs. Abdomen deep black with a 

 silvery white ring on the posterior edge of the second, fourth, sixth, and seventh segments, not ex- 

 tending around the under side. Anal tuft black. Legs black, tarsi marked with white. Fore 

 wings rich dark orange red with the costal and outer margins black. Discal mark oblique, black. 

 Fringes brown. Hind wings orange red, with a few blackish scales, margins and discal mark black. 

 Fringes brown. Underside same as above. 



Female. — Similar to the male. 



Expanse : Male and female, 17-26 mm. 



Habitat. — Nebraska and Colorado, October 16-23. 



Type : One male, Mus. Com. Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. One male (Pyrrhotamia coloradensis), 

 Coll. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 



A well-marked species, easily known by its red wings with black margins. 

 Earlier stages unknown. 



Alcathoe Hy. Edw. 



Fig. 11. 



Alcathoe Hy. Edwards, Papilio, Vol. II, 1 



Fig. 11. Anal Appendage of male, Head, Hind Leg, and Venation of Alcathoe caudata. 



