4 06 NOCTUID.-E. 



and ventral surface yellowish white. Fore wing yellowish white 

 suffused with rufous, the hase of inner margin and the terraen 

 whiter ; a narrow ohlique whitish band from lower angle of cell to 

 inner margin connected with slight spots before and beyond the 

 otherwise undefined reniforni ; cilia rufous at base, yellowish white 

 at tips. Hind wing black-brown with a greyish tinge ; a round 

 white spot beyond the cell connected with a bar from lower angle 

 of cell to vein 1 ; cilia red-brown at base, white at tips. Under- 

 side of fore wing black-brown, the costal area yellowish white 

 suffused with red expanding into a spot at middle of cell, the inner 

 area yellowish white, a medial white band from the costal fascia to 

 vein 1, a bar beyond the cell and an apical patch ; hind wing with 

 the costal area yellowish white tinged with red except towards apex, 

 a rounded white spot beyond the cell and a bar from lower angle of 

 cell to vein 1. 



Hah. U.S.A., Nevada, California, Placer Co., Del Norte Co., 

 Haltville ( Walsingham), 4^,2$. Exp. 20 millim. 



Genus EUTRICOPIS. 



Type. 



Entricopis, Morr. Aim. N.Y. Lye. xi. p. 102 (1875) nexilis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, the 2nd joint extending about the 

 length of head and fringed with very long hair below, the 3rd moderate; 

 frons smooth ; eyes small, reniforni : antennas of male minutely serrate and 

 ciliated ; thorax clothed with long hair only and without crests ; tibiae fringed 

 with long hair; abdomen sparsely clothed with Ions hair and without crests. 

 Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced, the termen obliquely curved 

 and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



4950. Eutricopis nexilis. 



Entricopis nexilis, Morr. Ann. N.Y. Lye. xi. p. 102 (1875) ; Smith, Cat. 



Noct. N. Am. p. 291. 

 Melicleptria elaborate/., H. Edw. Papilio, i. p. 21 (1881). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black with some white hairs ; antennae 

 ringed with white ; palpi, frons, pectus, legs, and ventral surface of 



Fig. 225. — Eutricopis nexilis, rj 1 . f. 



abdomen mostly white, the tarsi slightly ringed with brown. Fore 

 wing black suffused with grey and with some purplish pink, 



