PSAPHIDA. 



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Genus PSAPHIDA. 



Type. 



Fsaphida, Wlk. xxxii. 447 (1865) resumens, 



Dicopis, Grote, lUustr. Essay, p. 40 (1882) ..^ resumens. 



, Copivaleria, Grote, Proe. Am. Phil. Soc. xsi. pp. 146, 168 (1883). grotei. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect to just beyond frons and fringed 

 with hair below ; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antenna; of male 

 bipectinate with long branches to apex, of female serrate ; head and thorax 

 clothed with rough scales and without crests; fore tibia with corneous process 

 at extremity and long curved claw on inner side; the tibice fringed with hair, 

 the tarsal joints with tufts of hair ; abdomen fringed with hair at sides and 

 with dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the 

 termen obliquely curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with vein 3 from or from close to angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from 

 just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle or shortly stalked ; 

 8 anastomosing with cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with black streak below terminal part of vein 2. 



a. Fore wing with the claviform defined by a curved black 



mark from orbicular to inner side of antemedial line ... resumens. 



b. Fore wing with the black mark defining the claviform not 



crossing the antemedial line grotei. 



B. Fore wing without black streak below terminal part of vein 2. 



a. Fore wing with slight black streak below base of cell ... thaxteriana. 



b. Fore wing with the black streak below the cell extending 



through the claviform to postmedial line electilis. 



2347. Psaphida resumens. 



Psaphida resumens, Wlk. xxxii. 448 (1865); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 111. 

 Cymatophora viridescens, Wlk. xxxii. 601 (1865). 

 Dicopis muralis, Grote, 6th Rep. Peab. Acad. Sci. p. 27 (1874) ; id. BulL 



Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. pp. 6, 77, pi. 1. f. 1. 



Head and thorax white mixed with fuscous ; frons with black 

 patches at sides and bar above ; tegulse with black medial line ; 

 patagia with black line near edges ; pectus and legs dark brown 

 mixed with grey, the tarsi black ringed with white; abdomen 



Fig. 61. — Psaphida resumens, d". t- 



fuscous irrorated with grey, sometimes tinged with ochreous. 

 Fore wing whitish, more or less strongly suffused with fuscous and 

 olive-green and sparsely irrorated with black ; a black streak 

 below the cell to just beyond antemedial line ; subbasal lino 

 indistinctly double, strongly bent outwards below costa ; antemedial 

 line indistinctly double, oblique, waved ; claviform represented by 



