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Show 98 ME. 0. Y. WATSON ON THE UESPElUlD-E. [Jan. 11 , as in Adopcea. Fore wing: costa straight, outer margin rather excised for the lower half; inner margin longer than outer margin , cell less than two-thirds the length of costa; vein 12 reacning costa before end of cell; middle discocellular more than twice the length of lower; vein 5 from close to bottom of cell; vein 6 well before end of cell in male, shortly before in female ; vein 2 considerably nearer to end of cell than to base of wing. H m d wing : outer margin even; vein 7 well before end of cell, only slightly nearer to 6 than to 8; discocellulars and vein 5 barely traceable ; vein 3 immediately before end of cell; vein 2 more than twice as far from base of wing as from end of cell. Hind tibiae with two pairs of spurs. Abdomen slender, extending beyond the anal angle of hind wings. Male with a linear stigma, parallel to the costa, running along the basal third of vein 3 and continued for a short distance immediately below the lower margin of cell; the terminal two-thirds of veiu 3 is much attenuated, the male mark apparently arresting its full development. ( ^aurantiaca, Hew 1. \ procris, Felder. nanus, H. S 2. Confined to Northern and Central America. 7. Genus ADOPCEA. (Plate III. fig. 27.) Adopcea, Billb. E n u m . Ins. p. 81 (1820). Type, thaumas, Hufn. Pelion, Kirby, List Brit. Rhop. (1858). Type, thaumas, Hufn. Antennae short, less than half the leugth of costa ; club elongate, straight or slightly arcuate, tip blunt. Palpi : second joint clothed with laxly-set scales; third joint long, slender, suberect. Fore wing : inner margin longer than outer margin ; cell less than two-thirds the length of costa; middle discocellular more than twice as long as lower ; vein 5 from close to bottom of cell; vein 3 close to eud of cell ; vein 2 (in both sexes) slightly nearer to base of wing than to end of cell. Hind wing : outer margin even, slightly excised at vein 2 ; vein 7 well before end of cell, only slightly nearer to 6 than to 8 ; discocellulars very faint, vein 5 not traceable; vein 3 immediately before end of cell; vein 2 more than twice as far from base of wing as from end of cell. Hind tibiae with two pairs of spurs. Abdomen slender, extending beyond anal angle of hind wings. Male with a linear discal stigma on the fore wing, in two portions- the upper portion long, lying below the inner margin of cell, from the origin of vein 3 to as far as vein 2 ; the lower portion short, in continuation of the upper portion, from below vein 2 to not quite as far as vein 1. 1thaumas, Hufn 1. linea, Wien. Verz. venula, Hiibn. J lineola, Ochs 2. X virgula, Hiibn. hyrax, Led 3. actceon, Esp 4. hylax, Fab 5. *boeta, H e w 6. wrightii, Edw 7. The species wrightii and boeta differ from the type in the more |