98 XIK. U. Y. WAXii50>' 0> THE UiiSPElUiJD.E. [JaU. 17, 



as ill Adopcea. Fore wing : costa straight, outer margin rather 

 excised for the lower half; inner margin longer than outer margin ; 

 cell less than two-thirds the length of costa; vein 12 reaching 

 costa before end of cell ; n.iddle discocellular more than twice 

 the length of lower ; vein 5 from close to hottom of cell ; vein 3 

 well hefore end of cell in male, shortly hefore in female ; vein 2 

 considerably nearer to end of cell than to base of wing. Hind wing : 

 outer margin even ; vein 7 well before end of cell, only slightly 

 nearer to 6 than to 8 ; discocellulars and vein 5 harely traceable ; 

 vein 3 immediately before end of cell ; vein 2 more than twice as 

 far from base of wing as from end of cell. Hind tibiae with two 

 pairs of spurs. Abdomen slender, extending beyond the anal angle 

 of hind wings. 



Male with a linear stigma, parallel to the costa, running along 

 the l)asal third of vein 3 and continued for a short distance imme- 

 diately below the lower margin of cell; the terminal two-thirds of 

 vein 3 is much attenuated, the male mark apparently arresting its 



full development. 



j *(mranfiacu, Hew 1. 



\ procris, Felder. 



nanus, H. S ^. 



Confined to Northern and Central America. 



7. Genus Adop^a. (Plate III. fig. 27.) 



Adopcea, Billb. Euum. Ins. p. 81 (1820). Type, thaumas, Hufu. 



Pelio?i, Kirby, List Brit. Rhop. (1858). Type, thaumas, Hufn. 



Antennae short, less than half the length of costa ; club elongate, 

 straight or slightly arcuate, tip blunt. Palpi : second joint clothed 

 with laxly-set scales: third joint long, slender, suberect. Fore 

 wing : inner margin longer than outer margin ; cell less than two- 

 thirds the length of costa; middle discocellular more than twice as 

 long as lower ; vein 5 from close to bottom of cell ; vein 3 close to 

 end of cell ; vein 2 (in both sexes) slightly nearer to base of wing 

 than to end of cell. Hind wing : outer margin even, slightly excised 

 at vein 2 ; vein 7 well before end of cell, only shghtly nearer to 6 than 

 to 8 ; discocellulars very faint, vein o not traceable ; vein 3 imme- 

 diately before end of cell ; vein 2 more than twice as far from base 

 of wing as from end of cell. Hind tibiae with two pairs of spurs. 

 Abdomen slender, extending beyond anal angle of hind wings. 



Male with a linear discal stigina on the fore wing, in two portions — 

 the upper portion long, lying below the inner margin of cell, from 

 the origin of vein 3 to as far as vein 2 ; the lower portion short, in 

 continuation of the upper portion, from below vein 2 to not quite as 

 far as vein I. 



( thaunias, Hufu 1 . 



\ lined, Wien. Verz. 

 [ venula, Hiibu. 



\ lineola, Ochs '1. 



\ virgiUa, Hiibn. 



The species wiightii and boeta ditfer from the type in the more 



%r«a', Led 3. 



actaon, Esp 4:. 



hylax,¥ab 5. 



*boeta. Hew 6, 



ivrigktii, Edw 7. 



