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easily distinguished by the white thoracic disk and the prominent 

 white spots on the inner margin, iilling the median space at that point. 

 It forms almost a half baud of white, but does not quite reach the 

 middle of the wing. When the specimen is spread the three white 

 spots centering in the thorax give the creature a very characteristic 

 appearance. Perhaps the insect would be a little better referred to 

 Bryo^phila; but it is nearer in general appearance to the species of Ghy- 

 tonix, while not so broad winged. 



COPIBRYOPHILA, xie^jv genus. 



Eyes naked, large, hemispherical. Head moderate in size, distinct, 

 not at all retracted, front conical and produced into a flat, wedge- 

 shaped process which terminates in a broad, chisel-like tip. Yestiture 

 scaly, forming no obvious tuftings. Palpi slender, cylindrical, reach- 

 ing to or projecting a little beyond the frontal process. Antennae sim- 

 ple in both sexes. Thorax rather short, subglobular, vestiture scaly, 

 forming no obvious tufts, though there is a posterior bunching; i)ata- 

 gia evident, though not uplifted. Abdomen reaching to or a little 

 exceeding the anal angle of secondaries; slender, smoothly scaled. 

 Legs well developed, tibite not spinose, the anterior not armed at tip, 

 spurs of the middle and posterior tibite long and prominent. Vestiture 

 of under side scaly. Wings large; jDrimaries long and proportionately 

 somewhat narrow, the venation apparently normal; secondaries large 

 and broad, veins 3 and 4, separating unusually close to the tip, vein 5 

 scarcely even traceable. 



This is a curious genus for the Bryophilid series to which I feel com- 

 pelled to refer it. Its narrow xDrimaries and ample secondaries remind 

 one of Sadenella, while the conic, armed front suggests the Acontiid 

 series. The smooth scaly vestiture and the almost complete loss of 

 vein 5 of the secondaries are considered Bryophilid, and as determining 

 the location of the genus. 



3. COPIBRYOPHILA ANGELICA, new species. 



Ground color a smooth glistening gray brown, more or less mingled 

 with whitish scales. Head and thorax without obvious markings. 

 Primaries with all the markings fairly well defined. The median space 

 darker than the rest of the wing, so that it seems a little contrasting. 

 Basal line geminate, black marked on the costa only, within it the 

 base brown. From that point to the transverse anterior line the basal 

 space becomes paler and whitish at the transverse anterior line. This 

 latter line is geminate, the outer portion blackish, oblique, rather feebly 

 sinuate, the inner line indicated by a few brown scales. Transverse 

 posterior line geminate, not very well defined, irregular over the cell, 

 where it is well curved outwardly, incurved beneath that point and a 

 little better marked by the greater contrast between the median and 

 subterminal spaces. Subterminal line irregular, whitish, without defi- 



