CYCLOPHORIDyE. 441 



COCYPAEIS INSOLITATA (Plate 198, Fig. 5, 5«, <J ? ). 

 Ciicijpai-is riisolilata, Walker, Cat;il. Lep. Het. B. M. xxvi. p. 1572 (1862). 

 Btdlaihd utrotnmens, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiv. p. 1215 (1865). 



Forewing greyish oclireous-brown, the base, apex, middle of costa, and posterior 

 margin more oclireous ; the basal area, au angular transverse discal fascia, a cell 

 streak, and an oblique subapical streak, and the cilia washed with metallic silvery- 

 grey ; a prominent black oval apical spot, which is yellow-bordered and traversed 

 by a yellow line; a raised tuft of metallic black scales on middle of the posterior 

 margin; hindwing oclireous, with a clouded black discal patch. Thorax, head, 

 tip of palpi, and forelegs above greyish ochrcous-brown ; abdomen, palpi, middle 

 and hindie^'S ochreous. 



Expanse, c? ItV, 2 Ito inch. 



Family CYCLOPHORID.ffi. 



Epliijrid(v, Guenee, Phal. i. p. 4u2 ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xxii. p. 622. 



Wings small, extended during repose; alike in colour, and markings, which 

 generally consist of two remote lines of points and of a discal ocellus. Proboscis 

 moderately long ; palpi conspicuous, third joint fihform, very distinct, often long ; 

 antennas of male generally pectinated to near the end ; legs rather long ; hind tibife 

 with only one pair of spurs. 



Larva cylindrical, elongated, without protuberances ; head rather large, flattened 

 and slightly indented. Lives exposed on trees. Pupa truncate in front, suspended 

 by a silken thread at the tail and by a girdle round the body. 



Genus CYCLOPHORA. 



Cyclnphora, Hiibner, Teutamen, p. 2 (1806) ; Stephens, Catal. ii. p. 127 (1829). 



Lcucophthalmia et Codoiu'a, Hiibn., Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 302 (1825-7). 



i'/j/^^/ra * Duponchel, Lep. Fr. vii. 2, p. 108 (1829 ) ; id. viii. 1, p. 20 (1830); Steph., Illiist. Haust. 



ill. p. 198(1831) ; Curtis, Brit. Ent. fol. 447 (1834); Gueii., Plial. i. p. 405; Walker, Catal. Lep. 



Het. B. M. xxii. p. 624. 

 Zonosoma, Lederer, Vers. Eur. Span., pp. 10, 30 (1853). 



Male. Forewing triangular, apex acute, exterior margin very slightly angular 

 in the middle ; cell half the length ; first subcostal at two-fifths, quadrifid, fifth at one- 

 fifth, very slightly touching second near its base, sixth from end of cell ; discocellular 

 recurved, radial from middle ; the middle median about one-sixth, lower at two- 

 fifths : hindwing sliort, exterior margin slightly angular in the middle ; cell half the 



* L'sed iu 1809 for a genus of Acalepha;. 

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