COP^EODES. 473 



B. Primaries with a brand in the male. 



COPAEODES. 



Copceodes, Speyer, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1878, p. 183 ; Watson, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 97. 



_The type of this genus is Ancyloxypha aurantiaca, Hew. (=Hesperia waco, Edw., and 

 Heteropterus procris, Edw.*), an insect not uncommon in the Southern United States 

 and Central America. The form of the brand on the primaries of the male is quite 

 different from that of any of the other Pamphilinje occurring within our limits f. 



The antennae are very short, less than half the length of the costa, and have a stout, 

 straight club, which is blunt at the tip. The palpi have a long, slender, erect third 

 joint. The primaries are pointed at the tip, and have the outer margin excised towards 

 the anal angle; the cell is less than two-thirds the length of the costa; the disco- 

 cellulars are oblique, the lower one very much shorter than the upper; the first median 

 branch arises from much nearer the lower angle of the cell than to the base of the 

 median nervure, and the second is immediately beyond it; the third median segment is 

 longer than the second in the male and shorter than it in the female. The secondaries 

 are rounded at the anal angle ; the discocellulars faint. The abdomen in the male is 

 slender and extends beyond the anal angle of the secondaries. The hind tibiae have 

 two pairs of spurs. The primaries of the male have a very narrow longitudinal brand 

 beneath the median nervure, extending along the second median branch for a 

 considerable distance. 



l. Copaeodes aurantiaca. (Tab. xcil. figg. 39-42, s .) 



Ancyloxypha aurantiaca, Hew. Descr. new sp. Hesperid. p. 45 (March 1868) l . 



Copaeodes aurantiaca, Wats. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 98 2 . 



Hesperia waco, W. H. Edwards, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 122 (Aug. 1868) 3 . 



Thyrnelicus waco, Scudd. Rep. Peabody Ac. Sci. iv. p. 75 4 ; Plotz, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1884, p. 284'. 



Hesperia minima, W. H. Edwards, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iii. p. 196 e . 



Heteropterus procris, W. H. Edwards, loc. cit. p. 215 7 . 



Copaeodes Candida, Wright, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. (2) iii. p. 34 \ 



Copaeodes nanus, Wats. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 98 (nee Herr.-Schaff.) s . 



Alis nitide flavo-fulvis, stigmate nigrescente, anticis linea angustissima fusca niarginatis ; posticis margine 

 costali late et ad basin fuscis : subtus anticis pallide fulvis, ad basin fuscis; posticis flavidis, linea a baai 

 ad marginem externum interdum indistincta albida. 



§ mari similis, sed alis obscurioribus et venis fuscis. 



Hab. Nokth Ameeica, Texas 3 4 5 6 7 , New Mexico, Arizona, California 8 . — Mexico *, 

 Northern Sonora (Morrison), Durango city (Becker), Puebla (Elwes), Lake Chapala 



* Not of Eelder, as stated by Watson. 



f Thyrnelicus nanus, H.-S., from Cuba, of which we possess a long series, does not belong here, as boated by 

 "Watson : it has a short crook to the antenna?, and the brand of the male is wholly different in form from 

 that of Copaeodes. The North-American Copceodes wrightii, Edw., also belongs to a different genus. 



