470 Cul. C. Swinhoe on new 



Cophanta optiva. 



Tarache optiva, Swinh. Trans. Eat. Soc. 1890, p. 224. 



Toxophleps optiva, Hinpsn. /. c. pi. clxvii. fig. 20 ; Motha Ind. ii. p. 307. 



Rangoon, Ceylon, Calcutta, Deesa. 



The two species are similaily coloured, but there are no 

 rnarkings apparent in the freshest of specimens of funestalis, 

 but tliej are undoubtedly congeneric. Toxophleps might 

 stand as a subgeneric name for trilttalis, Walker, which Sir 

 George Hampson has put into his second section — vein 10 of 

 fore wings present, and 7, 8, and 9 not distorted. 



Xanthoptera nicea, nov. 



J ? . Pinkish grey, irrorated in parts with brown atoms ; 

 palpi dark brown at the sides : fore wings with the orbicular 

 small, reniform very large and ear-shaped, both ringed with 

 brown ; costa with many brown patches, like the commence- 

 ment of bands, which in some specimens are more or less 

 indicated across the wings; a discal duplex pale sinuous line, 

 rather close to the margin, the apical space pale, and a pale 

 band running down the outer side of the duplex line; in some 

 examples this band is dark, in one example the lower outer 

 space and the whole lower area of the wing is dark pink- 

 brown : hind wings pink-brown, without markings ; cilia of 

 both wings ochreous, on the fore wings with brown patches : 

 underside ochreous grey, shining; hind wings with a brown 

 cell-spot and thin brown discal band. Tlie female differs 

 from the male in the only two specimens I possess in being 

 darker and in having; a large blackish-brown patch which 

 occupies two thirds of the costal portion and is limited out- 

 wardly by the duplex discal line. 



Expanse of wings 1^^ inch. 



Port Blair, Andaman Islands, and one example from the 

 Great Nikobars. 



Very variable in shades of colour, hardly two specimens 

 being alike. 



Xanthoptera rectivitta. 



Orthosia rectivitta, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 353. 

 Polydesma rectivitta, Hmpsn. Moths lud. ii. p. 469 (1894). 



The type came from Darjiling and is a female. I have 

 now both sexes ; the male proves it to be an Acontid of the 

 genus Xanthoptera; it does not differ from the female in 

 colour or markings, but the outer margin of the fore wings is 

 prominently crenulate. 



Expanse of wings 1^^ inch. 



Jaintia Hills. 



