NYCTTCIA. THECOrnOEA. 



301 



brown, a black discoidal lunulc and traces of a sinuons postmcdial 

 line. 



2 darker ; fore yviu^ more suffused with fuscous on basal and 

 terminal areas, the subterminal line better defined. 



Hub. Punjab, Dharmsula {Hoclinrj), 1 d" , 3 5 , type. Exp. 

 34 millira. 



Genus THECOPHORA. 



Thecophora, Led. Noct. Eur. p. 99 (1837) 



Type. 



fovea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, fringed with long hair in front, 

 the 3rd joint porreet ; frous smooth, rounded, with large frontal tuft; eyes 

 rather small and reniforni ; antennre of male minutely ciliated ; head and 

 thorax clothed chiefly with long scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading 

 crests; pectus with long hair ; tibia fringed with hair; hind tibite in male 

 very short, the 1st joint of tarsus very long, the spines on it playing on the 

 dilated extremity of subcostal nervure forming the keel of the very large boat- 

 shaped fovea on disk of hind wing; abdomen with" dorsal series of crests, the 

 male with tufts of long hair protrusible from lateral stigmata. Fore wing 

 triangular, the termen obliquely curved and rather crenulate ; veins 3 and .5 

 from near angle of cell ; from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 

 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins o, 4 from angle of 

 cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; G, 7 shortly 

 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



2469. Thecophora fovea. 



PMogophora fovea, Treit. Eur. Schmett.. Noct. v. pt. i. p. 380(1825) ; Dup. 

 L^p. Fr. vi'i. p. 49, pi. 103. AT. 4-5 ; Geyer, Eur. Sclimett., Noct. ff. 753-6 ; 

 Frr. Beitr. pi. 46; Meig. Syst. Besch. iii. p. 119, pi. 101. f. 10; Friv. 

 Tudom. Akad. Erkon. xi. pt. 4, pi. 5. ff. 7, «-c ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 182. 



Head and thorax rufous mixed with some black ; tarsi fuscous 

 with ochreous rings ; abdomen grej'ish and fuscous tinged with 

 purplish pink. Fore wing brown suffused with purple and fuscous ; 

 a slight black streak below base of cell ; subbasal line double, waved, 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line strong, doul)le, 

 angled outwards below costa, then oblique, waved, angled inwards 

 on vein 1 and to inner margin, above which there is an oblique 



Fig. 93. — TliccopJiora fovea, (^ . \. 



black bar on its inner side ; claviform large, filled in with black ; 

 orbicular and rcniform defined by black, the former oblique elliptical, 

 with traces of ochreous aunulus, the latter slightly angled inwards 

 on median nervure, with its outer part ochreous, its centre slightly 

 defined by brown ; traces of a w^aved medial line ; postmcdial line 

 double, filled in witli ochreous at costa and traversing a diti'used 



