72 PSYCHID^i:. 



beneath ; palpi fringed with white at base ; antennae brown. Underside pale chestnut ; 

 hind borders of both wings yellow ; a marginal dotted line indistinct. 



Expanse If inch. 



Hab. Darjiliug. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



This species has much the appearance of B. dichromellu. Walker, but differs in being 

 twice its size, and in the fore wing being devoid of the black speckles that are scattered 

 throughout that wing ; the hind wing also is of a different colour. 



Family PSYCH I D^. 



KOPHENE, nov. gen. 



Wings covered with minute compact scales : fore wing broad, trigonal, costa slightly 

 concave in the middle, apex acute, exterior margin oblique, long, nearly straight, angle 

 rather acute, posterior margin short ; costal vein curved upward from the base ; subcostal 

 vein five-branched, first branch arising at some distance before and second at end of the cell, 

 third and fifth from upper angle of the cell, fourth from below the third at one third its 

 length ; cell very broad at the end ; discocellulars of equal length, lower slightly bent near 

 its end ; two discoidal veinlets emitted within the cell, upper from middle of the disco- 

 cellulars parallel with the radial, the other from angle of lower discocellular, both 

 joined together in the middle of the cell ; and before their junction the lower throws out 

 a short branch or spur to the median vein nearly in a line with its lower branch ; median 

 vein four-branched, the two upper from end of tlie cell, third near its end, fourth at some 

 distance off ; submedian vein angled and curved upward at half its length, having a lower 

 curved branch extending to the base, the loAver branch emitting a short spur at half its 

 length which is directed outward. Hind wing broad, short, anterior margin arched, apex 

 and exterior margin and posterior angle convex ; subcostal slender, joined to the costal by 

 an oblique upward cross branch ; discocellulars oblique, curved ; two discoidal veinlets 

 emitted within the cell and joined together near the middle ; median vein four-branched, 

 angled at the lower brunch, the two upper branches starting from end of the cell, third 

 near its end ; a submedian and two internal veins. Body pilose ; thorax clothed with long 

 hairs ; abdomen slender ; antennae short, bipectinate, plumose ; legs small, slender, femora 

 and tibiae clothed witli long hairs. 



KOPHEN'E CUPREA, U. Sp. 



Wings covered with minute compact dark cupreous-brown scales ; abdominal margin 

 pale cinereous-brown. Body above cinereous-brown, beneath dusky-brown. 

 Expanse ^ inch. 

 Ilab. Calcutta. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore. 



