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COPAEODES; CHAEREPHON; HYLEPHILA. By Dr. M. Draudt.] 



■euphrasia. 



xanthina. 



inelanoneu- 

 ra. 



A. arene Edic. (= tucumanus Plotz. leporina Ploiz) (180c) is above plainly reddish-j^ellow with 

 a blackish distal margin at apex of the forewing as well as costal margin of the hindwing, and a thin black cell- 

 end streak. Beneath plainly yellow, proximal margin of forewing black. Arizona, Mexico to Venezuela and 

 Peru. — f. euphrasia Plotz (180 d) is marked by the $ forewing being suffused with dark brown; from Mexico. 



A. nanus Plotz (180 d) is a smaller species from Cuba, closely allied to the preceding. Above the 

 forewing is dusted with brown except the cell remaining yellow; beneath with somewhat darker veins. 



A. xanthina Mob. Forewing black with a yellow apical spot and 2 similar longitudinal bands, one 

 along the costal margin to the cell-end, the other widening distally and divided into 4 spots. Hindwing black 

 with a yellow, longish, triangular spot occupying the whole margin, fringes reddish-yellow. Forewing beneath 

 yellow with a black band disappearing at the proximal margin. Hindwing yellow, between the veins shaded 

 brownish, whereby they are more prominent. Expanse of wings: 20 mm. Valera. 



A. melanoneura Fldr. (180 d) is easily recognizable by the black veins above. Beneath the hindwing 

 is brownish with 2 white longitudinal stripes. Colombia. 



75. Genus: Copaeodes Speyer. 



Antennae short as in the preceding with a straight, strong club with stunted apex. Palpi as in Adopaea 

 (Vol. I, p. 346). The distal margin of the forewing is a little excised in the lower half. The abdomen projects 

 beyond the anal angle. The cj exhibits a fine scent-scale stripe extending from the base of the median along 

 the median to the upper median vein, below which it extends to its first third. 

 singidarii. C. siugularis H.-ScJidff. (= aurantiaca Hew., waco Edw., minima Edw., Candida Wt'ight, macra Plotz) 



(180 d) is above and beneath uni-coloured light reddish-yellow, the scent-stripe fine black. Beneath the hind- 

 wings are scarcely noticeably veined darker. Texas, Arizona, California and from Mexico to Panama, also in 

 Cuba. 

 ivrightii. C. Wfightii Edw. (180 d) is extremely similar, somewhat larger, more robust, with broader wings, at 



once discernible by the smoked fringes; the scent-scale stripe is a little steeper. California. 

 myriis. C. niyrtis Edw. (180 d) in contrast with it is smaller, with narrower wings, towards the distal margins 



smoky, more broadly at the apex. Costal margin of hindwing broad dark, distal margin narrowly bordered 

 with dark. Beneath the base of the forewing is black. Arizona. 

 eunus. C. eunus Edw. (180 e) is as large as ivrightii, with a narrow black marginal line; the veins towards 



the latter somewhat darkened, the margin very feebly and narrowly smoked. On the hindwing beneath the 

 ground between the broadly lighter veins is strewn with a greenish grey. California. 



76. Genus: Chaerephoii G. u. S. 



Aiitennae as long as half the costal margin, club short, at the apex pointed somewhat like a hook. The 

 terminal joint of the palp is shorter than in the preceding and half erect. Apex of forewing pointed, in the $ 

 more obtuse. Middle and posterior tibiae spiny, the latter with double spurs. In the (^ of citrus a narrow scent 

 scale stripe w hicli is absent in rhesus extends from the rise of the upper median vein obliquely to the inner- 

 marginal vein. 

 citrus. Ch. citrus 3Iab. (180 e). Dull greyish-brown, reddish-yeUow, with greenish scales at an oblique expo- 



sure to light, particularly on the costal margin and in the basal half of the forewing, with some blurred, reddish- 

 yellow, subapical and postdiscal small spots, also on the hindwing. Fringes greyish-white. Beneath greyish- 

 yellow, strewn with blackish, except a postdiscal band of spots, and with small, black internerval spots. Scent- 

 stripe black. The 2 is duller in its colour with more distinct yellow spots above. Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala. 

 rhesits. CH, thesus Edw. (= subreticulata Ploiz, axius Plotz) (180 e) is much larger, blackish-brown, of a more 



greenish tint with larger and more distinct spots. Also beneath more blackish-brown with an olive tint and 

 white spots; the forewing exliibits a large, white inner-marginal spot, the hindwing one more basal band of 

 spots being broken in an acute angle. Colorado, Arizona to Mexico. 



phyJaeus. 



77. Genus: Hylephila Bill. 



Scarcely distinguished from the preceding genus; palpi and antennae the same. On the somewhat 

 longer forewing the lower median vem rises much nearer at the base, in the $ somewhat farther than at the 

 cell-end. Distal margin of hindwing somewhat concave before the anal angle. The scent-scale stripe extends 

 as in Chaerephon and is distally bordered by a series of erect scales. 



H. phylaeus Drury (= augias Hhn., hala Btlr., ancora Plotz, bucephalus Steph.) (180 e). The (J is above 

 reddish-yellow, with black wedge-shaped streaks before the distal margin, a long black spot behind the cell 



