250 
OXYCNEMLS. By Dr. M. Dkaudt. 
sparganio- 
tis. 
advena. 
pacifica. 
inexicana. 
fusimacu- 
la. 
orbicularis. 
gusli. s'. 
subsimplex. 
gradllima. 
acuna. 
grandima- 
cula. 
F. sparganiotis Dyar (36 f). Forewing grey shaded with brownish through the cell as far as the centre 
of the margin, with black veins in the marginal area and numerous black dots, also the transverse lines being 
broken up into dots, the distal line more into small spots; the small reniform macula is surrounded by yellowish 
and centred with brown, in the brown area behind the cell there are white dots. Hindwing greyish-brown, 
towards the base lighter. Mexico, Sierra de Guerrero. 
52. Genus: Oxyciiemis Grt. 
Distinguished by the stunted proboscis, with very short palpi scarcely extending to the middle of the 
frons; irons smooth, male antennae serrate; thorax clad with rough hair intermixed with scales, only on the 
metathorax with a large tuft of curved scales, the abdomen is tuftless; anterior tibia very short and broad 
with a large bent spine on the inside at the end. Small, slender and slim species with narrow wings and rounded 
apex. 
0. advena Grt. (= baboquavaria Sm.) (36 g). Forewing purple grey, densely irrorated with blackish- 
brown. with strong black transverse lines being distally somewhat whitish, and with black-encircled maculae, 
the upper ones more or less whitish, strewn with brown; the apex is parted by a blackish patch extending to 
the postmedian line. Undulate line merely indicated. Hindwing whitish, at the margin brownish. Arizona. 
- Of pacifica Edw., which was hitherto considered as Acopa, the type, according to Benjamin, has not vet 
been discovered, but it presumably belongs hereto and may be synonymous. 
0. mexicana Dyar (36 g) is on the white ground coarsely strewn with grey and black, in the median 
area particularly behind the traces of the reniform macula, the lightest in the marginal area, here in the apex 
with an oblique black patch; transverse lines black, strongly notched, also the subbasal line; maculae almost 
entirely extinct; before the margin intense black streaks. Hindwing whitish. antennae almost pectinate. 
Mexico. 
0. fusimacula Sm. (36 g) is larger than the preceding, likewise on the white ground strewn with black, 
the most intensely in the median area and marginal area, with black transverse lines, the maculae surrounded 
with white, the reniform macula above taperingly produced distally and proximally; the black apical shadow 
as in the preceding; undulate line scarcely lighter, behind it with black veins of the marginal area. Hindwing 
white, at the margin brownish. Arizona. 
0. orbicularis McD. (36 g). Forewing light grey, darker irrorated, without any transverse lines; 
the ring-macula is large, in a white ring and dark-centred, encircled by a fine black line which extends as far as the 
small white lunula of the reniform macula being inside bordered with black and outside shaded with ferruginous 
brown; the white undulate line is distincter only in the uppermost portion and parts here the black apical 
shadow, whilst analwards it is traversed by a black internerval ray. Hindwing diaphanous whitish, towards 
the margin smoky. Extremely rare, from Utah. 
0. gustis Sm. has bluish-grey forewings, irrorated with white in the basal area and the cell, with feeble 
blackish transverse lines, behind the distal line analwards irrorated with white; the maculae are very indistinctly 
marked with grey and so is the undulate line behind which there is somewhat darker irroration. Hindwing 
white, at the margin brownish-grey. Arizona. This form is unknown to Benjamin. 
0. subsimplex Dyar (36 g) is a somewhat larger species with darker brownish grey, darker veined 
forewings, the black transverse lines bordered with grey and the large maculae in somewhat whitish rings, 
the reniform macula with a white lunula in the centre; the apex is parted by a lighter grey patch. Hindwing 
white with brownish veins, discal dot, and a postmedian row of dark dots. Arizona. 
0. gracillima Grt. (= yuma Sm.) (36 h) is a small whitish species irrorated with brown, characterized 
by the uncommonly narrow and long coniform macula extending from the base to the posterior transverse 
line and being parted by a brown streak; also the narrow long upper maculae are confluent; the posterior 
transverse line is only indistinctly present in the lower portion; the apex is parted by an oblique whitish patch, 
below it is a dark one parting the dentate white undulate line. Hindwing brownish. From California and Arizona. 
0. acuna Barnes (= adusta Sm.) (36 h), one of the smallest species, is grey, strewn with brown, 
without any transverse lines or at least only the posterior line indicated by whitish irroration behind it; the 
coniform and ring-maculae are extremely narrow and long, often united with the grey reniform macula to 
which a very oblique white apical shadow extends; the light irregular undulate line is in the upper and lower 
portions proximally bordered with dark. Hindwing brownish. From Texas, rare. 
0. grandimacula B. McD. (36 h) is somewhat allied with subsimplex, but it lacks the white apical 
patch ; forewing dark smoky grey strewn with whitish, with single black transverse lines, the posterior line 
distally in the lower half bordered with white; the large maculae filled up with light ochre-yellowish are very pro¬ 
minent and finely surrounded with black, of the coniform macula the lower border-line extends to the yellowish 
