COPIPAIfOLTS. — EPIDEMAS. 21 5 



costal carea ; subbasal line absent ; ante- and postmedial lines 

 hardlj^ traceable ; orbicular and reniform yellowish white, the 

 former small, round, the latter moderate, rather irregular. Hind 

 wing whitish at base, then irrorated Avith rufous, especially on 

 terminal area ; the underside slightly paler and more irrorated 

 with yellow. 



Hah. U.S.A., Florida. Exj). 29 millim. This species is un- 

 known to me. 



Genus EPIDEMAS. 



Type. 



Ejndemas, Sinith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 40 (1894) cinerca. 



Proboscis absent ; palpi short, upturned, clothed with long hair in front; 

 frons smooth, rounded ; eyes large, rounded ; antennaj of male strongly 

 serrate and fasciculate ; head and thorax clotlied with rough hair and scales, 

 the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; abdomen with dorsal crest at 

 base only and lateral frii;ges of liair. Fore wing with veins 'A and 5 from 

 near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle or from areole, which is formed by 

 vein 9 given off from 10 and anastomosing with 8 ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with veins 3,4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalke'd ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



A. Fore wing with the subterminal line strong, white defined 



on inner side ijy dentate black marks inelcmograijlia. 



B. Fore wing with tlie subterminal line indistinct, not 



defined by dentate black marks on inner side. 



a. Fore wing with the postmedial and subterminal lines 



defined by white on outer side towards inner margin, cinerea. 



b. Fore wing with the postmedial and subterminal lines not 



defined bv white on outer side towards inner margin, ohscura. 



2360. Epidemas melanograplia, n. sp. (Plate CI. fig. 26.) 



$ . Head and thorax grey-white mixed with dark brown ; palpi 

 blackish at sides ; thorax with dark line behind tegulse ; patagia 

 with blackish scales near upper edge, metathoracic crest tipped with 

 blackish ; tarsi with slight pale rings ; abdomen reddish brown 

 mixed with greyish. Fore wing grey-white irrorated and in places 

 suffused with black-brown ; a sinuous black streak below base of 

 cell with some ochreous scales above and below its extremity ; 

 subbasal line represented by double black strise from costa ; ante- 

 medial line black defined by white on inner side, angled outwards 

 below costa, then oblique to submedian fold ; claviform whitish, 

 acute, and defined hy black at extremity ; orbicular and reniform 

 whitish, the former oblique elliptical, strongly defined by black, 

 the latter defined by black on inner side, undefined on outer ; 

 medial shade strong, black, diffused, darkening the cell between 

 the stigmata, then approximated to postmedial line, which is black 

 defined by white on outer side, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line strong, white, defined 

 on inner side by dentate black marks, angled outwards at veins 7, 

 4, 3, and bent outwards to tornus ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules ; cilia fuscous brown mixed with Avhitish. Hind vring 



