[3.0042] A NEW PHOLISORA WITH NOTES ON P. alpheus (Edw.) (LEPIDOPTERA: HESPERIIDAE) 1 C. DON MacNEILL 2 This paper provides a name for a species of Pholisora for use in several other works currently in preparation. This new species is the third member of the closely related group designated by Dyar (1905: 118) as the genus Hesper-opsis. These three species are fundamentally similar with respect to wing mark-ings, secondary sexual characteristics, genitalic structure of males, and egg morphology, in striking contrast to the two remaining species of Pholisora (which also are vastly divergent from one another). This unit, recognized by Dyar, comprises at least a subgenus Hesperopsis Dyar and includes Pholisora ( Hesperopsis ) alpheus (Edw.), P. (H.) libya (Scud.) and P. (H.) gracielae, new species. P. (H.) gracielae is very closely related to P. alpheus with which it has been confused in the literature. This paper will consider only these two species of this subgenus but polytypic P. libya is also in need of distributional scrutiny in the future. Pholisora gracielae, NEW SPECIES (Figures 1,2,5,6) Diagnosis: This is a small species with very long palpi. The forewings above usually have a post-discal sigmoid series of poorly defined, short blackish spots, which are scarcely elongate wedge-shaped, running from the soiled white subapical spots to the vannal margin. The hindwings above usually have a pale brown or buff curved band of spots extending from the cell end to the vannal fold, and a less conspicuous submarginal series of poorly defined separated buff spots. The lower surface of the hindwing has a conspicuous curved series of white spots separated by dark veins extending from the end of the cell to the vannal fold, which is contrastingly gray overscaled. The submarginal white spots are usu-1 Accepted for publication May 4, 1970. 2 Division of Natural Sciences, Oakland Museum, Oakland, California 94607. Ent. News, 81: 177-184 111
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