268 COENOTEPHRIA. By L. B. PRorT. 



based on secondary sexual characters would regard thi.s as a sectioii of Larentia. those who üver-iate tlie taxo- 

 nomic importance of the (^ antenna alone have made an impossible union with Hydriomena. There are about 

 70 species whicli come within my j^resent conception of '"Coenotephria", the great majority of them Palaearctic ; 

 most of tlie residiie Antaictic, chiefly C'hilian. 



suhochmria. C. subochraria Dbld. (= strangulata Guen.) (2() k). Palpus moderate. Antenna of tlie S dentale, the 



teeth moderately ciliated. Recognizable by its yellow colour, nanow median band and paucity of other markings ; 

 even the median band is not solid except at hindmargin. thoiigh it is often dark at its distal edge. sometimes 

 broadly so. It was one of the eailiest discoveries in New Zealand. where it is widely distiibuted and veiy common 

 in open country. frequenting tiissock grass. Also recored from Chatham Island and common in temperate 

 fusriiiata. Australia : West Australia and Queensland to Tasmania. — ab. fuscinata Guen. has both wings moie or less 

 strongly infuscated. the band likewise darkened. Only known from New Zealand. where it has been reported 

 locally abundant in swampy plains. 



mictncda. C. uticinata Guen. (= plurilineata Walk.) (26 1 3"- ?)■ Very variable in colour (pale greyish to brown. 



yellowish or reddisli) and in the strength of the markings. but the shape of the forewing will at once distinguish 



even its yellowest forms from subochraria; usually also, subapical markings are much better developed than 



in that species and frequently the basal patch is developed or indicated. Structure similar. (Jenerally common 



from West Aiistralia and New South Wales to Tasmania and known from one or two Queensland localities. 



The type $, from Tasmania, is a weakly marked form, pale chamois with darker lines. only the antemedian 



iniercaliiia. and a group of 2 or 3 postmedian more strongly expressed. — ab. intercalata Walk, is intermediate between 



replicata. this and the following. — ab. replicata Walk. (= revulsaria Walk.) has further developed costal spots at the 



appro.rima- boundaries of the median area and a single dark one at its hindmargin. — ab. approximata Walk, is a pretty 



"■ form, delicate grey with sidibasal, ante- and postmedian b a n d s and the 3 subapical spots orange-brown. 



gallinata. — gallinata Feld., a $ from Sydney, is almost synonymous with the type, thougli with subapical merk well 



developed and with rather strong lines, but not (as the figure makes it) with a median especially developed. 



apolutiia. C. apototna Turn., founded on $$ only, is probably nearest to uncmata, but with shorter palpus (H^) 



and differently shaped hindwing: "termen slightly wavy. straight". Forewing grey. tinged with reddish purple. 

 basal patch and median band faintly indicated, cell-dot minute. Hinch\'ing somewhat paler, with dark cell-dot 

 and towards termen several fine lines. Beaconsfield. near Melbourne, in June and July. Superficially rather 

 like Evphyia trygodes Meyr. I suspect it will sink to the following. 



assimihita. C. assimilata Walk. (26 1). A very poor 5 from "Swan River" (the old specimens so labelled have mostly 



proved to l)e E. Australian); we give the best figure that its condition allows. Cdossy purplish grey, the basal 

 23atch and median band (except its central section) on the forewing above more orange-brownish : all marking 

 very weak. on the hindwing and underside apparently wanting; beneath. a considerable part of the hindwing 

 and at least part of the costal region of the forewing (distally) of the browner hue. 



microcyma. C. tnicrocyma Meyr. (26 k). A small and very unimposing species. especially in the weakly marked 



forms. Palpus lYo', S antenna somewhat thickened. cüiation ^-o. Forewing rather broad. termen waved. not 

 very oblique, hindwing irregularly crenulate; in the type form, the subbasal, antemedian and postmedian lines 

 are accentuated by black, as well as white dots, but the black ones are, in some specimens, scarcely visible 

 without the lens; proximal half of costa of forewing somewhat infuscated. Victoria, South Australia and Tas- 

 mania. the type probably Tasmanian. 



hontupliaiia. C. homophana Hmps. (Suppl.-Vol. 4, pl. 13 i). Superficially very closely similar to Colostygia albigirata; 



subbasal line of forewing generally less angled. antemedian with a strong additional tooth outward about the 

 fold, postmedian with the irregularities somewhat less extreme. The j' is of course easily distinguished by the 

 antenna, which is nearly sim])le — laterally compressed and with extremely short ciliation. Simla (type). 

 siisienta. Dalhousie and Kashmir. — sustenta Prout, from, W. China, has the proximal dark shade of the subterminal of the 

 forewing almost continuous, more uniform, the only prominent darkening there on being the pair of spots at 

 the radials. — A further local race in the Peter the (Jreat Mountains, see Suppl.-Vol. 4. p. 140. 



honiophoetu. C. homophoeta Prout (Suppl.-Vol. 4, pl. 13 i). Distinguished from homophana by the o antenna, which 



is subdentate, with ciliation nearly as long as its diameter, by the brown suffusions in places and especially a 

 wash of rather light cinnamon in the distal area between the Lst radial and 2nd median and by the development 

 of a roundish clear white spot in front of the 3rd radial; hindwing becoming rather suddenly pale or white behind 

 the postmedian. Kashmir. 



championi. C. champiotli Prout (Suppl.-Vol. 4, pl. 13 i). Antennal structure nearly as in homophoeta. Rather larger 



and more resembling Euphyia variegata Moore (27 k). Median band of forewing somewhat less sharply blackish 

 than in that species. its distal edge indanted rather than incurved at the 2nd radial, the lobe behind this slight. 



