410 KOCTUIDJE. 



Genus ACOPA. 



Type. 

 Acopa, Harv. Bull. Buff. Soe. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 279 (1874) carina. 



Proboscis absent ; palpi slight, porrect, hardly reaching beyond the irons and. 

 clot lied with rough hair ; Irons with rounded prominence ; eyes large, round ; 

 antenna? of male serrate and fasciculate ; thorax clothed chiefly with rough 

 scales, the prothorax with spreading crest, the inetathorax with very large crest ; 

 build slender ; tibi;c fringed with rather long hair ; abdomen with some rough 

 hair at base but without crests. Fore wing long and narrow, the costa some- 

 what excised, beyond middle, the apex rounded, the terraen obliquely curved and 

 not crenulate ; veins 3 and o from Dear angle of ceil; 6 from upper angle ; 

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

 with the cell very long; veins 3. 4 from angle; 5 obsolescent from middle of 

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

 only. 



A. Hind wing fuscous. 



a. Fore wing with the orbicular and renifonn white defined 



by black pacifica. 



b. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniforiu indistinct, 



blackish carina, 



B. Hind wing white. 



a. Fore wing strongly irrorated with red-brown, the post- 



medial line nearly evenly sinuous incana. 



b. Fore wing slightly irrorated with red-brown, the post- 



medial Hue minutely waved perpaliida. 



*40S8. ? Acopa pacifica. 



Acopa paci/ica, H. Edw. Papilio, iv. p. 40(1884); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. 

 Am. p. 265. 



c? . Head and thorax dark grey ; legs and abdomen fuscous. 

 Fore wing dark grey with some white suffusion from base of inuer 

 margin to apex, the medial area suffused with white towards costa, 

 darker at iuner margin ; subbasal line present ; antemedial line 

 strong, black, slightly oblique, with a slight tooth at middle ; 

 orbicular and remform very distinct, white denned by black and 

 with some brownish scales in centres ; postmedial line oblique, 

 arising from the white suffusion below costa ; postmedial area 

 suffused with brown ; a black streak from apex and black terminal 

 line ; cilia grey-brown. Hind wing fuscous : cilia white ; the 

 underside paler, with traces of a medial band and some whitish 

 streaks on costal area. 



Hob. U.S.A., Arizona. Exp. 25 rnillim. This species is un- 

 known to me. 



4089. Acopa carina. 



Jcnpa carina, Harv. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 279(1874); Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 204. 



rj . Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown mixed with some 

 white. Fore wing white largely suffused and irrorated with black- 

 brown, the medial area almost wholly suffused except towards 



