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NEOGALEA; COPICUCULLIA. By Dr. M. Dbatjdt. 
brazilicnsis. 
antipoda. 
propinqua. 
incresa. 
eulepis. 
bisiriga. 
cucullioides. 
heinrichi. 
Subordinate Family: Cucullianae. 
This not very polytypical group is sharply characterized by bare eyes surrounded by more or less long 
ciliary hairs and by the absence of spines and spikes on the middle and posterior tibiae. They are mostly medium¬ 
sized insects, the most typical representatives of which, the genuine Cucidlia, are distinguished by a hooded 
and keeled collar, with the same exterior as the palearctic representatives, without any strangely looking types 
at all in this subfamily. They are chiefly distributed in Northern America, the tropical regions being inhabited 
by but very few forms. 
1. Genus: ]tfeoga!ea Hmps. 
Characterized by the thorax being purely clad with scales, without any hair, by the tufted abdomen, 
a slight, rough frontal projection and spineless anterior tibiae. The collar is like in the following genera hooded, 
with a middle keel. Only 1 species: 
N. braziliensis Hmps. (25 c) is a grey insect more or less dusted and strewn with brown, with somewhat 
darker striped veins, a dentate double posterior transverse line and dark internerval stripes in the marginal 
area. Hindwing diaphanous white with a brownish costal margin and marginal area. From Rio de Janeiro. 
2. Genus: Copicucullia 8m. 
Separated from the genuine Cucullia by a bent, claw-like spine inside on the anterior tibiae; besides 
there is a horny plate below the rough frontal projection; the prothorax and metathorax exhibit feeble 
tufts. All the rest as in Cucullia. About a dozen species are known from America. Beside the American Copi- 
cucullia one more species is known from Algeria and the Canary Islands (cf. Vol. Ill, t. 29 a), and 2 Asiatic 
species; in the Indo-Australian region and Ethiopian Africa they seem to be entirely absent. 
C. antipoda StrecJc. (25 c). Forewing greyish-white with a slight violet tint and brown strewing and 
very sharply dentate transverse lines, the posterior line forming a sharp W towards the proximal angle; all 
the three maculae are present; between the veins there are faded darker stripes towards the margin; the undulate 
line is composed of single small sagittae. Hindwing white, on the veins and margin brownish. Canada to Arizona. 
C. propinqua Sm. (25 c) is mostly larger, with broader wings, of a more intense bluish-grey, with 
somewhat darker hindwings, on the veins and folds finely striped black; the anterior transverse line is less 
distinct. Colorado, Durango. 
C. incresa Sm. Forewing ashy grey, in the $ more bluish-grey, in the $ of a more brownish tint, 
with finely black-striped veins and quite extinct transverse lines, and a bent dark patch above the anal angle; 
the ring-macula and reniform macula are small but distinct, the former with a yellowish ring, the latter dusted 
with yellowish and brown. Hindwing in the $ of a pure white with dark marginal lunae, in the $ smoke-brown 
with white fringes. Expanse of wings: 37 to 40 mm. California. 
C. eulepis Grt. as well as the following have no maculae; forewing whitish grey, towards the base 
still lighter, with indistinct transverse lines being connected at the proximal margin by a black streak; from 
the posterior transverse line, which is double at the costal margin and proximal margin, a black stripe extends 
on the lower median branch to the margin, above the upper one there is besides a blackish wedge. Hindwing 
blackish-brown with white fringes. Expanse of wings: 35 mm. Oregon, California. — Whether bistriga Sm .. 
from Colorado is merely a synonym, appears to be doubtful, it is darker, the dark streak on the submedian 
fold is connected with the basal ray as a long black line. 
C. cucullioides B. d• Benj. Habitus and genital organ very much like the preceding, but the spine 
of the anterior tibia is but very stunted. A smaller species, with very light, whitish, black-strewn forewings 
and, except a black marginal line, quite extinct markings; the basal ray is very fine and feeble, a somewhat 
stronger one on the submedian fold extends from the traceable tooth of the anterior transverse line to the 
margin; apex parted by a grey patch. Hindwing white, with brownish veins and margin. Expanse of wings: 
28 to 31 mm. Utah, Arizona, California. 
C. heinrichi B. de Benj. on the whole resembles incresa, but it is lighter, with somewhat more distinct 
transverse lines and entirely without the two maculae; the anal streak and the shading of the proximal margin 
is less distinct; the posterior transverse line is extended into such long points as in no other American species. 
Hindwing white. Expanse of wings: 39 mm. Arizona. 
