NARTnCCOPnOEA. AZEXIA. 



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wing long and narrow, tlie uppx rounded, tlie ternien obliquely curved and not 

 creuulate ; \eins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; G from upper angle : 9 from 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areola; 11 from cell, Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of disco- 

 cellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



*4826. Narthecopliova pulverea. 



Kcnikecophora pxlrerca. Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. sxii. p. 486 (1900) ; 

 J)yar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 197. 



(5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen ])ak' ochrcous greyish tinged 

 -with red-brown ; tarsi browner slii^htlj- ringed with white. Fore 

 wing gre3'--\vhite thickly irrorated with pale red-brown : antemedial 

 line rather diffused red-brown, slightly bent inwards to costa and 

 incurved at vein 1 ; a small whitish discoidal lunule defined by 

 red-brown ; postmedial line rather diffused red-brown, slightly 





Fig. 172. — yavthecophora lyulverea, (^ . \. 



exeurved below costa, incurved at discal fold to reniform, strongly 

 incurved below vein 4 and exeurved at vein 1 ; subterrainal line 

 hardly traceable, brownish, exeurved below vein 7 and at middle 

 and with brownish shade beyond it at apex. Hind wnng ochreous 

 white faintly tinged with red-brown ; the underside suffused with 

 rufous. 



Hub. U.S.A., Arizona, Tucson (Schwa)-:), in U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 Evp. 28 millim. 



Genus AZENIA. 



Azenkf, Grote, I'apilio, ii. p. 186 (1882) 



Type. 



im-plvra 



Proboscis aborted, small ; palpi obliquely upturned, slender, reaching to 

 just beyond frontal proce.«s ; frons with rounded prominence with large tri- 

 lobate corneous plate at middle and corneous plate below it with straight 

 outer edge ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male typically laminate and 

 nimuteiy ciliated ; thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed and without 

 crests; tibite smoothly scaled; abdomen without crests. Fore wing rather 

 long and narrow, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and no Icrenu- 

 late; 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 just below middle of discocellulars ; 

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



