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ERASTRIINAE 



COBUBATHA INyUl^SlTA SJ). IIOV. 



Head brownish ; thorax violaceous tinged with brown ; abdomen fuscous- 

 brown. Primaries : ground color violaceous-grey more or less obscured by 

 brownish and blackish shades ; basal area strongly brown tinged ; t. a. line 

 brownish, single, thin, slightly waved, nearly parallel to the outer margin; t. a. 

 space and basal half of median area violaceous-white ; outer half of median 

 area brownish, containing a thin, black, median line ; orbicular absent ; renif orm 

 small, violaceous-grey with a fuscous center; t. p. line black, double, outer line 

 faint, included space violaceous-grey, outwardly oblique from costa to beyond 

 end of cell, bent at an acute angle, inwardly oblique to near submedian fold, 

 thence almost erect to inner margin ; s. t. line white, well marked from costa 

 to opposite end of cell, the s. t. space for this distance filled in with dark 

 brown and black, beneath which the s. t. line is more or less obsolescent; small 

 black dashes inwardly mark the s. t. line in the costo-radial and medial regions; 

 terminal line thin, black, inwardly bounded by a white shade line; fringe 

 violaceous, more or less marked by fuscous brov/n and black. Secondaries : 

 unicolorously fuscous-brov.n; fringe whitish with a fuscous-brown interline 

 and a tendency toward brown tips especially toward the apex. Beneath : 

 whitish; the primaries so heavily dusted with black that they appear quite grey; 

 the secondaries not as heavily povv'dered as the primaries ; with faint, small, 

 discal dots: both sets of wings with a broken black terminal line; and with 

 whitish fringes interlined and marked by violaceous-black. 



Expanse: 11 mm. 



The present species possesses the essentia! characters of Cobu- 

 batha, i. e., tongue, frons, vk'ing-shape, venation, legs, and tuftings. but 

 differs considerably from the other members of the genus, in habitus 

 more closely resembling some species of Ocarba. 



The authors failed to locate it in Hampson (Cat. Lep. Phal. B. 

 M.) or in the Biologia. The junior author took a specimen to Brook- 

 lyn to compare with the type of "Lithacodia" distincta Grt., but it is 

 not that species ; it was taken to Washington where Mr. Schaus in- 

 formed the junior author that it was unrepresented in the National 

 Museum tropical material. 



Type locality: Paradise, Cochise Co., Ariz. 



Number and sexes of types: Holotype S, Ivlay; Allotype 5, May. 



Amyna bullula Grt. 



1873, Grt., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, IV, 299, PteraethoUx. 



