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 CYMATOPHORA IIiil)iior. Plate fl, figs, d, 2a; Plate G. fig. 23. 



Ci/matophora Hiibii., Tentamun, 1810. 



Dniocoelh, Erliopin, and Diileptiiiia Hiibn., Vrrz., :U(i, 1818. 



Ckora Curtis, Brit. Kut., 88, IS-iiy'. 



Boarmia Treits. (iu part), Sdmi. Eiir., vi, i, 187, l&S. 



Cleoia .Stopb. (in part), Jlcis, ami Iloarmiii, Noiiicucl. Br. Ins., 43, 1831). 



Boanuia Diip. (in ]iart), Lcp. Franco, vii (iv), :W7, 1829. 



Uuisil. (iu part), G<ii. Iiul., 1%, 1840. 



Dnp., Cat., •i-ii\ 1844. 



ll.-Seh., Schni. Eur., iii, "O, 1847. 

 Jta"«an<l lloarmia Stcph., Cat. Br. Lop., 171!, 174, 1850. 

 Boarmia Lcileror, Verb. Bot. Zool. Ges. Wicn, 177, 185:$. 



GntMi., Phab, i, 235, IS.W. 



Walk., List Lop. Hot. Br. Mns., xxi, 334, 1800. 



Head broader ill front tliau long, iiiiieli broader than in Tcp/irosia. l\i\\n 

 usually short and broad, not reaching beyond the front; or slender, pointed, 

 and reaching well beyond the front (('. p.si/ogni/umaria). Anteniuu well 

 l^ectinated, but not plumose. Fore wings with the costu slightly convex, 

 especially toward tiie subacute ape.\; outer edge very oblitpie, rather long, 

 not l)ent. Hind wings either a little elongated toward the apex or well 

 rounded, sometimes slightly scalloped. Venation : costal vein either anastomos- 

 ing with the sul)costal (C umhrosnria) or lie(! (C. psilognwimaria). Usually 

 six subcostal venules (five in C psilogr(nnmaria). Usually no subcostal cell 

 (C. umbromria); but it is sometimes ])rcsent, as in C jysilognniimaria. j\Iale 

 hind legs only moderately long; hind tibiae much swollen, and tarsi about one- 

 third as long as the tibiae (in C psilogrammaria very long and slender, the tibiae 

 not swollen, and the tarsi longer than the tibiae). Coloration: invariably 

 whitish or dark gray, with three sinuous black lines, often double. 



The species of this genus are numerous and widely distributed, like those 

 of Tephrosia, occurring in deep, dark woods. They are distinguished by 

 their peculiar style of coloration, being, when unrLd)be(l, dark slate-gray, and 

 after flying about a few days becoming whitish-gray, and also by the broad 

 front, heavily-pectinated antennae, usually short palpi, and convex co.sta of 

 the fore wings. Contrary to what may be regarded as convenient, 1 follow 

 the strict law of priority, and adopt Hiibner's name Cymalophora for this genus, 

 dropping Boarmia, which is in conimon use. Even were Cumatophora not 

 a(U)ptcd, one of Hiibner's other terms, Dn/ocoelis or Veileptenia, would have 

 to 1)(' used, as the}' are well-defined groups, nearly as much so as Treitschke's 

 Boarmia, while he had no right to transfer the name Cynuitopliora to a genus 

 of another tinnily {Noctuidce). 



