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and ventral surface yellowish white. Fore wing yellowish white 

 suftused with rufous, the base of inner margin and the termen 

 whiter ; a narrow oblique whitish baud from lower angle of cell to 

 inner margin connected with slight spots before and beyond the 

 otherwise undefined reuiform ; 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 A^hito spot beyond the cell and a bar from lower angle of 

 cell to vein 1. 



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Genus EUTRICOPIS. 



Type. 



Eutricopis, Morr. Ann. N.Y. Lye. xi. p. 102 (1875) vexilis. 



Proboscis fully clevelopecl ; palpi porreet, the 2nd joint extending about the 

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

 frons smooth ; eyes small, reniform ; antenna; of male minutely serrate and 

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

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

 Fore wing with the ajDex 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 ; 6 obsoleEcent from middle of discocellulars ; 

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



4950. Eutricopis nesdlis. 



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



Noct. N. Am. p. 291. 

 Mdiclc2)iria elahvrata, H. Edw. Papilio, i. p. 21 (1881). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black with some white haiis ; antcnnce 

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



Fig. 225. — Eutricojns 7iexiUs, (^ . |. 



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

 wing black suffused with grey and with some purplish pink, 



