METALEPSIS. EFCOPTOCNEMIS. 4G3 



Tvitli lilacine grey ; the subbasal line represented bj' a black striga 

 on costa and slight streaks on median nervure and in submedian 

 fold ; the antemedial line grey defined by brown on outer side, with 

 black striga at costa, angled slightly outwards below costa and 

 inwards in cell, then excurved to vein 1 where it is angled strongly 

 outwards ; claviform obsolete ; orbicular and reuiform irrorated 

 with white, with whitish annuli defined by blackish, the former 

 elongate and confluent with the reuiform ; the postmedial line grey 

 defined by brown, minutely waved, with two black strigoe at costa. 



Fig. 79. — Metalepsis conmta, S . \. 



bent strongly outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved ; the subtermiual line defined by brown on inner side and 

 by an oblique black bar at costa, with black point and short streak 

 below it, then by fuscous streaks on the veins, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing pale purplish suff'used with fuscous, with obscure dis- 

 coidal spot and diffused postmedial band ; the underside purplish red 

 irrorated with white and fuscous, a dark discoidal spot and curved 

 minutely waved postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, 1 c? type. Exij. 32 millim. 



Genus EUCOPTOCNEMIS. 



Type. 



Eticopfocnemis, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 13 



(1874), non descr fimbriaris. 



Proboscis rather aborted, small ; palpi upturned to about vertex of head, the 

 2nd joint fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth ; 

 eyes large, rounded ; antennas of male bipectinate with long branches to apes • 

 head and thorax clothed with long hair; fore tibitE short and broad, with long 

 curved claw on inner side and short claw on outer, spined at sides; mid and 

 hind tibi£e strongly spined. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from near amrle of 

 cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 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 discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



Sect. I. Fore wing narrow, the costa concave, the apex produced upwards. 



796. Eucoptocnemis stenistis, n. sp. 



c^*-. Head and thorax white and reddish brown, the scales tipped 

 "with white ; abdomen grey tinged with broM'n. Fore wing o-re\r 



