GOXOPTERID^. 83 



line, followed by a slender blackish sinuous submargiiial line ; (lio iii(>(lial urea between 

 the two transverse lines either entirely dark violet-brown or only on the iii»]K'r lialf 

 of the area, in both sexes; in some females the two transverse lines are less defined 

 and have only a slightly darker slender border, with the intermediate area of the 

 same colour as the outer parts ; both sexes have a small black spot at upper end of 

 the cell, and a slight black streak at base of the posterior margin : hindwiug dusky 

 violet-brown, with the discal area hyaline-white ; cilia and fringe of abdominal margin 

 white. Thorax, head, palpi, and bands on tibite and tarsi olive-brown ; body and legs 

 beneath white. 



Expanse 1| to If inch. 



Family GONOPTERID^. 



Imago with the forewiugs angulated and indented on the exterior border ; thorax 

 with raised collar; abdomen flattened and truncated in both sexes. {Stainton.) 



Larva with sixteen legs, smooth. Feeds exposed on trees. Pupa enclosed in a 



slight cocoon amono:st leaves. 



Genus COSMOPHILA. 



Cosmophila, Boi:?(luval, Faim. Ent. MaJ. Lep. p. 94 (1834); Giieu. Noct. ii. p. 394 (1S.52) ; Walker, 

 Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 985. 



Forewing elongate, moderately broad, costa slightly arched towards the end, 

 apex acute, exterior margin slightly oblique, and angular in the middle, posterior 

 margin convex towards the base ; cell long, extending three-fifths the length ; first 

 subcostal emitted at one-third before end of the cell, second at one-sixth, third at 

 one-fourth from base of second, fourth at two-thirds from base of third, fifth from 

 end of the cell and slightly touching the third close to its base; discocellular concave, 

 bent near each end, radials from the angles ; middle median from angle close to end 

 of the cell, lower at one-third before the end ; submedian recurved : hindwing short, 

 broad ; cell extending to half the length ; two subcostals from end of the cell ; disco- 

 cellular slightly concave, radial from below the middle ; two upper medians from end 

 of the cell, lower at one-third before the end ; submedian and internal vein straight. 

 Body moderately stout, abdomen carinated above ; palpi ascending, second joint 

 clothed with long lax scales, stout, reaching to the vertex, third joint two-thirds 

 the length of second, cylindrical and acuminate at the tip ; antennge minutely 

 pectinated ; legs slender, squamose, middle and hind tibice with very long spurs. 

 (C xanthiadyma.) 



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