BEACHYGALEA. COPICUCULLIA. 9 



lower angle of cell ; some white points on costa towards apex ; the 

 interspaces of terminal area with blackish streaks and with short 

 oblique white streaks below veins 7, 6, 4, 3. Hind wing fuscous,. 



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Pig. 3. — Brachygcdea Icucorhabda, (^ . \. 



the interspaces of basal half whitish ; cilia white except at base ;; 

 the underside white irrorated with fuscous. 



Hah. Algeria, Biskra (WcdsingJiam), 2d, 2 5, type. E.vj).. 

 34 millim. 



Genus COPICUCULLIA. 



Type. 



CopicucuUia, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 84 (1894) eulepis.. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely nptiirned, fringed with long 

 hair in front ; irons with slightly roughened prominence with corneous plate 

 below it ; eyes large, rounded ; antennas simple in both sexes ; head and 

 thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the tegulse produced behind into- 

 a hood, the pro- and metathorax with slight crests ; fore tibiaj with curved 

 claw on inner side ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore 

 wing with the termen obliquety curved, the inner margin lobed near base ;. 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anasto- 

 mosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 

 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from below middle of discocellulars ; 6, T 

 from upper angle or stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform distinctly defined. 



a. Fore wing with the ground-cohiur grey-white antipoda. 



h. Fore wing with the ground-colour blue-grey propinqua. 



B. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform obsolete. 

 a. Fore wing with the groiaid-colour grey. 



a}. Fore wing with black streak from postmedial line to 

 termen at vein 2. 

 c^. Fore wing with black streak on medial part of inner 

 margin. 



ff'. Fore wing witli the postmedial line present eiolepis. 



W. Fore wing with the postmedial line obsolete astigma, 



h^. Fore wing without black streak on medial part of 



inner margin alfarata. 



h^. Foi'e wing with two obliquely-placed subterminal black 



marks below vein 2 syrtana. 



h. Fore wing with the ground-colour ochreous white ; naruenensis^ 



c. Fore wing with the ground-colour ochreous yellow mblutea. 



2060. Copicucullia antipoda. (Plate XCVI. fig. 16.) 



CuculUa antipoda, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. p. 129 (1878) ; Smith, Ca 

 Noet. N. Am, p. 23G. 



cJ . Head and thorax violaceous white mixed with dark brown 



