492 



NOCTUIDiE. 



greyish black ; the medial area darker ; antemedial line indistinct, 

 fine, grey, waved ; orbicular and reniform defined by white ; post- 

 medial line white, strongly excurved beyond the cell and with white 

 irroration beyond it ; subterminal line irregular, defined by the 

 terminal area being suffused with grey. Hind wing black. 



Hah. U.S.A., Arizona, Williams. Exp. 22 vaxlWra. This species 

 is unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type in U.S. 

 I^at. Mus. 



Genus COPANARTA. 



Type. 



Copanarta, Grote, Abli. Ver. Bremen, xiv. p. Ill (1895), non descr.... atirca. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about 

 to middle of frons and fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd short ; fVons 

 smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost 

 entirely with scales, the pro- and nietathorax with spreading crests ; tibiae 

 fringed with rather long hair, tlie fore tibii* with curved claw on inner side ; 

 abdomen without crests. Fore wing with tlie apex rounded, the termen 

 evenly 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. 



4983. Copanarta aurea. 



Pseudanarta aurea, Grote, Bull. Geol. Geog. U.S. Surv. Terr. v. p. 205 



(1879) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p 149. 

 Oncocnemis nigerrima, Smith, J. N.Y. Eut. Soc. xi. p. 10 (1903). 



c^ . Head and thorax fuscous, the scales tipped with grey-white, 

 tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen blackish ringed with 

 white. Fore wing fuscous suffused and irrorated with purplish grey, 

 the scales edged with grey, the veins slightly streaked with black, 

 the basal half of medial area blacker ; antemedial line black, 

 strongly excurved and slightly angled inwards on vein 1 ; clavi- 

 form and orbicular faintlv defined bv black, the latter small, round ; 



Fig. 235. — Copanarta aurea, ^ . \. 



reniform white with brown suffusion in centre, rather rounded; an 

 indistinct medial line on outer edge of dark area ; postmedial line 

 black, slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 2, in- 

 curved at submedian fold, then again excurved ; subterminal line 

 grey, rather irregularly dentate and with short black streaks before 

 it in the interspaces ; a fine black terminal line ; cilia grey mix6d 

 with fuscous, a dark line near ba«e and whitish tips. Hind wing 



