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Genus ACOPA. 



Type. 



Acopa, Ilarv. Bull. Euif. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 279 (187-1) carina. 



Proboscis absent ; palpi sligbt, porrect, hardly reaching beyond thefrons and 

 clot. bed with rough hair ; frons with rounded prominence ; eyes large, round ; 

 antennse of male serrate and fasciculate ; thorax clothed chiefly with rough 

 scales, the prothorax with spreading crest, the uietathorax with very large crest ; 

 build slender ; tibitc fringed with rather long hair ; abdomen with some rough 

 hair at base but without crests. Fore wing long and narrow, the costa some- 

 what excised beyond middle, the apex rounded, the termen obliquely curved and 

 not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 [) from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with the cell very long ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 obsolescent from middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 froiu upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



A. Hind wing fuscous. 



a. JFore wing with the orbicular and reniforra white defined 



by black pacifica. 



h. Fore wing with the orbicidar and reniform indistinct, 



bla cki sh carina. 



13. Hind wing white. 



a. Fore wing strongly irrorated with red-brown, the post- 

 medial line nearly evenly sinuous incana. 



h. Fore wing slightly irrorated with red-brown, the post- 

 medial line minutely waved perpallida. 



*4088. ? Acopa pacifica. 



Acopa ])acifica,'S..'EAvf.Va,^\\\o, iv. p. 46 (1884) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. 

 Am. p. 265. 



S . Head and thorax dark grey ; legs and abdomen fuscous, 

 l^ore wing dark grej- with some Avhite sutt'usion from base of inner 

 margin to apex, the medial area suffused with white towards costa, 

 darker at iuner margin ; subbasal line present ; antemedial line 

 strong, black, slightly oblique, with a slight tooth at middle ; 

 orbicular and reniform very distinct, white defined by black and 

 with some brownish scales in centres ; j)ostmedial line oblique, 

 arising from the white suffusion below costa ; postmedial area 

 sufiused with brown ; a black streak from apex and black terminal 

 line ; cilia grey-brown. Hind wing fuscous : cilia white : the 

 underside paler, with traces of a medial band and some whitish 

 streaks on costal area. 



Hah. U.S.xA.., Arizona. Exp. 25 millim. This species is un- 

 known to me. 



4089. Acopa carina. 



Acopa carina, Harv. Eull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 279 (1874) ; Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 264. 



S . Head, thorax, aiul abdomen black-brown mixed with some 

 white. Fore wing white largely suffused and irrorated with black- 

 brown, the medial area almost wholly suffused except towards 



