COPITAKSIA. 183 



Genus COPITAKSIA, uov. 



Type, C. turhata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with hair in 

 front, the 3rd porrect ; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antennas of male 

 ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales mixed with 

 some scales, the pro- and metathoras with spreading crests ; fore tarsi with 

 curved claw-like spines on outer side of 1st joint ; abdomen with dorsal crest 

 on basal segment. Fore wing with the apes rectangular, the termen rounded ; 

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

 anastomosing with 8 to form the areola ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 

 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from 

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



A. Fore wing with the antemedial line double. 



a. Fore wing rather long and narrow, the termen obliquely 



curved. 

 a}. Fore wing nearly uniform brown. 



a^. Hind wing of male wholly whitish hitmilis. 



b-. Hind wing of male with the terminal area suifased 



with brown censueta. 



b^. Fore wing largely suffused with grey tivrhata. 



b. Fore wing shorter and broader, the termen more erect ncenioicles. 



B. Fore wing with the antemedial line single. 



a. Fore wing with the lines and stigmata defined by greyish, pcttagonica. 

 h. Fore wing with the lines and stigmata not defined by 



greyish ^«M7YHiea. 



2313. Copitarsia Mmilis. (Plate C. fig. 27.) 

 Folia Immilis, Elanch. Gay's Chile, Lep. p. 79, pi. vi. f. 7 (1854). 



(S . Head and thorax pale rufous ; tegulse with slight dark medial 

 line ; tarsi brown with pale rings ; abdomen ochreous white slightly 

 tinged with fuscous. Fore wing ochreous white tinged with pale 

 rufous and yer}^ slightly irrorated with fuscous; subbasal line 

 represented by slight double striae from costa and cell ; antemedial 

 line indistinct, double, waved ; orbicular and reniform almost 

 obsolete, pale faintly defined by brown, the former round ; traces of 

 a curved medial line ; postmedial line with double dark points at 

 costa, then very indistinct, bent outwards below costa, then dentate 

 and produced to slight dark streaks on the veins, oblique below 

 vein 4 ; subterminal line hardly traceable, slightly angled outwards 

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

 Hind wing semihyaline white, the veins tinged with ochreous. 



5 . Hind wing with the terminal area suffused with ochreous 

 brown. 



Hab. Chili, Coquimbo (J. J. Walker), 1 cJ, Santiago. Exp. 

 34 millim. 



2314. Copitarsia consueta. (Plate C. fig. 28.) 



Agroiis consueta, Wlk. xi. 738 (1857). 



Agrotis incommoda, Wlk. sxxii. 692 (1865). 



Agroth peruviana, Wlk. xxxii. 693 (1865). 



Mamestra inducta, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 272 (nee Wlk.), 



Head and thorax reddish brown slightly tinged with grey and 



