62 EUCOPTOCNEMIS; ONYCHAGROTIS; PSEUDORTHOSIA; EPIPSILIA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
15. Genus: Eucoptocnemis Hbn. 
The genus is characterized by the stunted proboscis and above all by the short broad anterior tibiae 
with a long bent claw on the inside, and a short one outside at the end, laterally with rows of spines. The 
thorax is only clad with long hair, without scales. 
stenistis. E. stenistis Hmps. (10 d) is a peculiar small insect with a somewhat concave costal margin; the forewing 
is brownish-grey with a dark costa and small blackish scale-spots at the proximal edge of the basal area and 
at the cell-end. Hindwing white, at the costal and distal margins dusted with brown. From Chile. 
fimbriaris. E. fimbriaris Gn. (= obvia Wkr.) (10 f) is brownish-grey with double dentate transverse lines filled 
up with whitish, the posterior line composed more of dots on the veins, and with an undulate line being distally 
bordered with grey; the ring-macula is a black dot, the reniform macula a narrow ochreous-yellowish small 
sordida. luna with a black central streak and bordering. Hindwing whitish with a brown marginal band. — f. sordida 
Grt. is darker, more reddish-brown. United States (Massachusetts). 
dapsilis. E. dapsilis Grt. has light ash-grey forewings strewn with blackish; the transverse lines are marked 
by black dots on the veins, the upper maculae are small dark spots; the undulate line is only marked by a slight 
contrast of the colour. Hindwing light brownish-grey, towards the margin darker. Expanse of wings: 31 mm. 
Described from Florida. 
tripars. E. tripars Wkr. (= worthingtoni Grt.) (10 f) is similar to dapsilis, larger, more brownish in the colour; 
the maculae are whitish small spots marked black, the ring-macula is only a dot; the black dots on the veins 
of the postmedian line are distally white; undulate line quite indistinct. Hindwing light brownish, in the darker 
red-brown $ brown. New York and Indiana. 
aphronus. E. aphronus D yar (10 e) is considerably larger, of a variable colouring, changing from grey to brownish, 
strewn with a darker shade, particularly in the marginal area; the dentate transverse lines are double; the 
large maculae are finely encircled with a light colour in the jet-black cell; undulate line light, proximally at 
the costal margin bordered by a dark triangular spot. Hindwing grey with light fringes. Mexico (Zacualpan, 
Cuernavaca), in June. 
16. Genus: Onychagrotis Hmps. 
Distinguished from the preceding genus by differently armed anterior tibiae exhibiting inside two 
and outside seven claws, the longest at the end. In the thoracal hairing coarse scales are intermixed. Only 
one typical species: 
nleyana. P. rileyana Morr. (10 g). Forewing lightbrown, densely strewn with a darker colour, with double, 
finely dentate transverse stripes and darker maculae in grey rings and surrounded with black, and with a lighter 
undulate line. Hindwing white, on the veins and margin brownish; in the greyer $ they are darker brown. 
From the United States, from New York to New Mexico. 
17. Genus: l*scaidoi*iIi4»sia Grt. 
With a well developed proboscis, and discernible from the other genera by a rough, feeble projection 
on the frons. Thorax long-haired and without tufts, abdomen above at the base long-haired. Only one species: 
variabiHs. P. variabilis Grt. (10c) is of an ochreous, reddish or dark brown; transverse lines distinct or indistinct, 
single, bordered with a lighter colour, and there is also a faded median line; the maculae are darker, light-ringed 
small spots or also quite effaced; the undulate line is proximally bordered with a darker colour. Hindwing 
paUidior. yellowish, more or less dusted with brown. Canada to Colorado and California. — pallidior Cockerell is a lighter 
form, otherwise not different. 
18. Genus: Hbn. 
Proboscis developed; palpi obliquely ascending, long-haired. Frons smoothly rounded, head and thorax 
long-haired; anterior tibiae normal, laterally spined, without any claws at the end. In the veins no very essential 
difference from the other genera. A large genus, also with many tropical species. 
gravida. E. gravida Mab. Anterior body and forewing olive-brown with a black and red-brown basal ray; 
the anterior transverse line is only marked by small black strigiform spots at the costal margin and on the 
median, the posterior line being entirely absent; the maculae are coloured like the ground, before and between 
them marked black, and with black stripes on a red-brown ground behind the reniform macula. Hindwing dark 
brown with a darker, spotted marginal line. Expanse of wings: 44 mm. From Patagonia and Fuegia. 
