HTPOMECIA. — COPIPHANA. dSh 



cell, with some black scales on its inner edge ; some white points 

 on costa towards apex ; subterminal line represented by a series of 

 slight white streaks with obscure dentate blackish marks before 

 them, defined on inner side bj^ an oblique white band from vein 4 

 to inner margin ; cilia chequered brown and \Ahite. Hind wing 



Pig. 10. — Ht/jiomecia qiiadrivirgida, (^ . \. 



white with fine brown terminal line ; the underside with the costal 

 and terminal areas slightly irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal 

 lunule. 



Hab. Algeria ; Palestine, 1 c? . -E'ap. 34 millim. 



Genus COPIPHANA, nov. 



Type, C. olivina. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, fringed with long hair 

 in front ; frons with large corneous prominence with raised rim and central 

 process hollowed out in front ; eyes large, rounded ; antennje of male bipecti- 

 nate or with small laminate serrations ; bead and thorax clothed with long 

 rough hair only, the vertex of head with crest of hair, shoulders with crests 

 pro- and metathorax with double crests, patagia with curled-up tufts at 

 extremity ; pectus and tibite clothed M'ith long hair ; fore tibia with curved 

 claw on inner side at extremity ; abdomen with some rough hair at base, large 

 crest on 2nd segment typically present, and lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing 

 with the costa somewhat concave, the termen evenly curved ; veins 3 and 6 

 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 

 to form the areole, or abnormally 9 and 10 anastomosing with 8; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of 

 diseocellulars ; 6, 7 from vipper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male bipectinate with moderate branches decreasing ta 

 base and apex ; abdomen without dorsal crest. 



2190. Copiphana gassana. 



Cleopliana gassana, Bang-Haas, ined. 



Head and thorax white slightly mixed with brown ; tarsi brown 

 ringed with white ; abdomen whitish dorsally tinged with red- 

 brown, ventrally irrorated with brown. Fore wing ochreous 

 whitish suffused with red-brown and with some fuscous before the 

 postmedial line, the median nervure and veins of terminal area 

 streaked with black ; an oblique black streak on inner area before 

 the antemedial line, which is double, minutely waved from costa to 



