CAPOTEtfA. 419 



Genus CAPOTENA. 



Capotena, Wlk. Cat. xi, p. 714 (1857). 

 Brada, Wlk. Cat. xv, p. 1665 (1858). 

 Phanaca, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 856 (1865). 



Type, C. apriformis, Wlk. 



Range. Sikhim ; Canara ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon. 



Palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head, the 3rd joint minute. 

 Antennae very long and minutely ciliated. Fore wing long and 

 narrow, the apex rounded ; vein 6 given off from the areole, which 

 is long ; 7 from just before the end of it. Hind wing with the 

 apex rounded ; veins 3 and 4 stalked. 



2324. Capotena truncata, Wlk. Cat. xv, p. 1666 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. 

 ii, pi. 122, figs. 2 a, b (larva) ; C. # S. no. 1119. 



Head and thorax chestnut-brown. Fore wing chestnut, with 

 the costa pale ; a pale outwardly-oblique antemedial line ; a dark 

 speck at end of cell ; a slightly curved inwardly-oblique postmedial 

 line ; traces of a dark waved submarginal line ; abdomen and hind 

 wing dark olive-brown. 



Nilgiri specimens have a greyer and more fuscous tone than the 

 Ceylon form. 



Larva with the three thoracic somites swollen ; two dorsal 

 tubercles on llth somite. Colour red-brown, the anterior somites 

 olive-brown ; a pale-centred double lunulate black dorsal line ending 



Fig. 235. Capotena truncata, tf . {. 



as a black band ; thoracic somites with black dorsal spots and 

 streaks ; pale centred double black lateral paired lines. 



Cocoon pale red ; compact ; with a conical projection at end. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon. Exp. 40 millim. 



2325. Capotena apriformis, Wlk. Cat. xi, p. 715. 



Phanaca damnipennis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 857 ; C. $ S. no. 2188. 



. Differs from truncata in the head and thorax being black- 

 brown. Fore wing suffused with silvery grey, the costa whitish ; 

 the ante- and postmedial lines waved. 



The type is from Canara, not Java. 



Hob. Canara; Ceylon. Exp. 32 rnillim. 



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