COPHANTA. XANTHOSEAPTA. 563 



Ab. 1, optiva. Fore wing with, the ante- and postmedial lines 

 entirely filled in by yellow lunules. 



Hah. Ceylon, Pundaloya {Green), 1 <S ; Burma, Rangoon, 1 6 , 

 1 5 type ojptiva ; Borneo, Sarawak ( Wallace), 5 d , 1 § type ; 

 Celebes, type f J , $ anth-acina in Coll. Snellen ; Qtjbensland, 

 Townsville {Docld), 1 d" . Exp. 16 millim. 



Sect. II. Fore wing of male normal. 



5845. Cophanta occidentalis, n. sp. 



(S . Head, thorax, and abdomen purplish grey mixed with 

 fuscous; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen paler, the 

 tarsi ringed with whitish. Fore wing purple-grey irrorated with 

 fuscous and a few silvery scales ; subbasal line represented by two 

 slight dark striae from costa ; antemedial line indistinctly double 

 filled in with yellow, waved ; postmedial line double filled in with 



Fig. 155. — Cophanta occidentalis, cf. |. 



yellow, the outer line indistinct, slightly angled outwards below 

 costa, excurved at middle, then oblique, waved, some white points 

 beyond it on costa ; sub terminal line represented by whitish points 

 from vein 6 to inner margin, excurved at middle ; a terminal 

 black line ; cilia with a fine pale line at base. Hind wing grey 

 suffused with brown ; a fine whitish line at base of cilia ; the 

 underside whitish thickly irrorated with fuscous, a rather diffused 

 curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Sieera Leone {Clements), 3 c? type. Exp. 16 millim. 



Genus XANTHOGRAPTA, nov. 



Type, X. trilatalis. 



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

 middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth, 

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

 minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax 

 without crest, the metathorax with depressed crest ; tibise smoothly scaled ; 

 abdomen with large crests on 3rd and 4th segments. Fore wing with the 

 apex rounded, the termen evenly curved, not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from 

 near angle of cell ; 6 from below upper angle; 7, 8, 9 stalked; 10, 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked ; 6 obsolescent fi'om middle of disco- 

 ceUulara ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



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