. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 118 NOCXTJIDiE. Genus COP ABLE PH AEON. Copahlepharon, Harv. Can. Ent. x. p. 56 (1878) Type. ahsida. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, sbort, fringed with hair in front; frons with somewhat obliquely rounded prominence ; antennajof male minutely serrate and fasciculate ; eyes large, rounded ; head and thorax smoothly clothed with hair; tibia; strongly spined. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex produced and termen oblique; veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell; 6 from upper augle ; 9 from 10 anastom


. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 118 NOCXTJIDiE. Genus COP ABLE PH AEON. Copahlepharon, Harv. Can. Ent. x. p. 56 (1878) Type. ahsida. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, sbort, fringed with hair in front; frons with somewhat obliquely rounded prominence ; antennajof male minutely serrate and fasciculate ; eyes large, rounded ; head and thorax smoothly clothed with hair; tibia; strongly spined. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex produced and termen oblique; veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell; 6 from upper augle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of disco- cellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. A. Fore wing ochreous, more or less tinged with brownish absicla. B. Fore wing clear yellow-buff. a. Hind wing white, the terminal area tinged with ochreous ... grandis. h. Hind wing fuscous longipeoinis. C. Fore wing pure white alhct. 200. Copablepharon absida. oc. Nat. Sci. Ablepharon absidu7ii, Harv. Bull. Buff, Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 267. ii. p. 275 (1874); Head and thorax ochreous yellow; abdomen ochreous white, tinged with yellow below. Fore wing ochreous yellow, more or less slightly tinged with brown, and the veins streaked with pale brown ^ pale streaks usually visible in cell and discal fold from before middle to termen and in submedian fold; a black point sometimes present at upper angle of cell and a slight streak at lower angle ; the postmedial liue sometimes present as an oblique sinuous. Fig. 38.— Copablepharon absida, (^. {. interrupted line with black points on the veins, or reduced to points only, or absent. Hind wing white, tinged Avith fuscous brown except towards base, and with black postmedial points on median nervules. Underside white; fore wing with the cell clouded with brown. Hah. , Oregon, 2 5 type, Colorado, Montana, California, "Webber L. {Osten Saoken), 1 § . kr_p. 42


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