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light carmine red, anal tuft yellow ; tibae red. Primaries light brown drab, 

 approaching a dusky yellow, t. a. line, single, convex outwardly, most angu- 

 late at cell, almost obliterated ou inferior margin, space betweeif the t. a. line 

 and the thorax filled with carmine ; t. p. line, concave above, convex below, 

 even on the costa ; carmine shading in the subterminal space, an ill-defined 

 median shade ; terminalline black, fringes whitish. Reniform, oval, inwardly 

 oblique, orbicular absent. Beneath, carmine red, apex and costa white, basal 

 streak black ; orbicular spot a black dot, a white line uniting it with the 

 subquadrate reniform spot, subterminal and terminal spaces blackish, hardly 

 obscuring the carmine, inferior marginal region white. The secondaries are of 

 a bright crimson color, a broad black margin not extended quite to anal angle, 

 fringes white except at anal angle, where they are concolorous. Beneath, 

 concolorous, the black band only obtaining at internal angle, a shade darker 

 on the disc, fringes concolorous. 



Ex2}anse, 18 m. m. Ilah., Texas (Belfrage). 



This species is allied to Sprafjuei and Pachardi, differing by the 

 crimson hind wings and the absence of the discal spot. 



Acopa, n. g. 



The eyes are naked; the tibiae all unarmed. The body is linear and narrow, 

 the vestiture rather rough, flattened scales and hair ; there is a dense bunched 

 tuft of scales on the thorax behind. The male antennae are brush-like. The 

 wings are elongate, costal edge depressed, widening outwardly. The habitus 

 and markings recall Lygranthoeeia marginata, and the genus is allied to the 

 Heliothidae rather than to Hadena. 



Acopa carina^ n. s. 



S 5 . — Olivaceous blackish, the female is paler. The basal half-line is 

 dentate, the extra basal space along the lines washed with white. Median 

 lines dark, the t. a. flexuous, the t. p. minutely rivulous, edged with white 

 outwardly; the lines approximate inferiorly. Reniform obsoletely indicated, 

 upright, broader at base, black shaded, with a black annulus ; orbicular want- 

 ing. Subterminal line absent. A Avhite inner terminal shading to the black 

 marginal line. Hind wings Avholly blackish. Beneath both wings blackish, 

 immaculate. Abdomen feebly annulate with pale. 



Expanse, 23 m. m. Hah., Texas (Belfrage). 



