562 NOCTUIDiE, 



Genus COPHANTA. 



Type. 



Cophmita, Wlk. ssx. 964 (1864) funestalis. 



Toxofhleps, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. ix. p. 124 (1893) funestalis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 vertex of head and rather broadly scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth, 

 roughly scaled ; eyes large, round ; anteunje of male somewhat laminate and 

 minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without 

 crests ; tibiss smoothly scaled ; abdomen with dorsal crests, the crests on 3rd 

 and 4th segments large. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly 

 curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from 

 upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 

 stalked; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked; 8 anasto- 

 mosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Fore wing of male with the subcostal nervure strongly curved down- 

 wards beyond vein 11, with an elongate groove above it on upperside. 



5844. Cophanta funestalis. 



Cophanta funestalis, Wlk. xxx. 964 (1864). 



Erastria anthracina, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxiii. p. 59, pi. 5. f. 7 (1880). 

 Tarache optiva, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 224; Hrapsn. 111. Het. 

 B. M. ix. p. 124, pi. 167. f. 26 ; id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 307. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black mixed with leaden grey; 

 tarsi ringed with white : anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing purplish 

 grey irrorated with black and with a silvery gloss, the medial area 

 suffused with blackish ; some blackish suffusion at base of costa, 

 the antemedial area with a blackish shade ; antemedial line double, 



Fig. 154. — Cophanta funestalis, c5'. |. 



blackish, excurved from below costa to median nervure, then waved 

 and filled in by two yellow lunules ; postmedial line double, oblique 

 from costa to vein 6, slightly angled inwards at discal fold and 

 outwards at vein 4, then incurved and minutely waved, with small 

 yellow lunules on the outer edge of the inner line ; subterminal 

 line defined on inner side by black suffusion on costal area, then 

 slightly by black, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, slightly 

 angled inwards at discal fold and incurved below vein 4, a faint 

 blackish shade beyond it; a terminal series of small black spots. 

 Hind wing silvery leaden grey ; the underside greyish thickly 

 irrorated with brown, traces of a curved postmedial line. 



