470 Col. C. Swinhoe on new 
Cophanta optiva. 
Tarache optiva, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 224. 
Toxophleps optiva, Hmpsn. /. ¢. pl. elxvil. fig. 26; Moths Ind. ii. p. 307. 
Rangoon, Ceylon, Calcutta, Deesa. 
The two species are similarly coloured, but there are no 
markings apparent in the freshest of specimens of funestalis, 
but they are undoubtedly congeneric. Towophleps might 
stand as a subgeneric name for trilatalis, Walker, which Sir 
George Hampson has put into his second section—vein 10 of 
fore wings present, and 7, 8, and 9 not distorted. 
AXanthoptera nicea, nov. 
3 ¢. 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. The female differs 
from the male in the only two specimens [ 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 1,3, 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. 8. 1881, p. 353. 
Polydesma rectivitta, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. 11. p. 469 (1894). 
The type came from Danjiling 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 1,85 inch. 
Jaintia Hills. 
