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NOCTUID^. 



Genus COPABLEPHARON. 



Type. 



Copahlejiharon , Harv. Can. Ent. x. p. fiC) (1878) ahsida. 



Proboscis fully developed ; ])alpi upturned, sliort, fringed with hair in front; 

 frons with somewhat obliquely rounded prominence ; antenna; of male minutely 

 serrate and fasciculate ; eyes large, rounded ; head and thorax smoothly clothed 

 wilh hair ; tibia? strongly spined. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex produced 

 and terraen oblique ; veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell ; ti from ujjper 

 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 i'roni middle of disco- 

 cellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



A. Fore wing ochreous, more or less tinged with brownisli ahsida. 



B. Fore wing clear yellow-bufF. 



a. Hind wing white, the terminal area tinged with ochreous ... //rr/iidis. 



b. Hind wing fuscous (ongipennis. 



C. Fore wing pure white alha. 



209. Copablepliaron absida. 



Ablepltaron absidnvi, Harv. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sei. ii. p. 275 (1874) ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 2()7. 



Head and thorax ochreous yellow ; abdomen ochreous white, 

 tinged with yellow below. Fore wing ochreous yellow, more or 

 less slightly tinged with brown, and the veins streaked with pale 

 brown : pale streaks usuallj' visible in cell and discal fold from 

 before middle to termcn and in submedian fold ; a black point 

 sometimes present at upper angle of cell and a slight streak at lower 

 angle ; the postmedial line sometimes present as an oblique sinuous 



Fig. 38. — Copablephar on absida, (J. J. 



interrupted line with black points on the veins, or reduced to points 

 only, or absent. Hind wing white, tinged with fuscous brown 

 except cowards base, and with black postmedial points on median 

 nervules. Underside white ; fore wing with the cell clouded with 

 brown. 



Hah. U.8.A., Oregon, 2 2 type, Colorado, Montana, California, 

 Webber L. {Osten Sacl-en), 1 $ . Exp. 42 millim. 



210. Copablepharon grandis, (Plate LVIII. fig. 24.) 



JEdophron ffrnndis, Streck. Lep. Ehop. & Het. p. 120 (1875). 

 Copablepharon subfavidcv.s, Grote, Can. Ent. xiv. p. 169(1882); Smith 

 Cat. Noet. N. Am. p. 267. 



Head and thorax pale clear sulphur-yellow ; pectus, legs, and 



