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NOCXTJIDiE. 



Genus COP ABLE PH AEON. 



Copahlepharon, Harv. Can. Ent. x. p. 56 (1878) 



Type. 



ahsida. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, sbort, fringed with hair in front; 

 frons with somewhat obliquely rounded prominence ; antennajof male minutely 

 serrate and fasciculate ; eyes large, rounded ; head and thorax smoothly clothed 

 with hair ; tibia; strongly spined. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex produced 

 and termen oblique; veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 augle ; 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 disco- 

 cellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



A. Fore wing ochreous, more or less tinged with brownish absicla. 



B. Fore wing clear yellow-buff. 



a. Hind wing white, the terminal area tinged with ochreous ... grandis. 

 h. Hind wing fuscous longipeoinis. 



C. Fore wing pure white alhct. 



200. Copablepharon absida. 



oc. Nat. Sci. 



Ablepharon absidu7ii, Harv. Bull. Buff, 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 267. 



ii. p. 275 (1874) ; 



Head and thorax ochreous yellow ; abdomen ochreous white, 

 tinged with yellow below. Fore wing ochreous yellow, more or 

 less slightly tinged with brown, and the veins streaked with pale 

 brown ^ pale streaks usually visible in cell and discal fold from 

 before middle to termen and in submedian fold ; a black point 

 sometimes present at upper angle of cell and a slight streak at lower 

 angle ; the postmedial liue sometimes present as an oblique sinuous 



Fig. 38. — Copablepharon absida, (^ . {. 



interrupted line with black points on the veins, or reduced to points 

 only, or absent. Hind wing white, tinged Avith fuscous brown 

 except towards base, and with black postmedial points on median 

 nervules. Underside white ; fore wing with the cell clouded with 

 brown. 



Hah. U.S.A., Oregon, 2 5 type, Colorado, Montana, California, 

 "Webber L. {Osten Saoken), 1 § . kr_p. 42 millim. 



210. Copablepharon grandis, (Plate LVIII. fig. 24.) 



Mdophron grandis, Streck. Lep. Ehop. & Het. p. 129 (1875). 

 Copablepharon subjlavidens, Grote, Can. Ent. xiv. p. 169 (1882j ; Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 267. 



Head and thorax pale clear sulpbur-yellow ; pectus, legs, and 



