COPIPnANA. CLEOPHANA. 



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2192. Copipliana olivina. 



Cleophana olimna, Herr.-Scliaff. Eui-. Schmett. vi. p. 57, f. 578 (1856) ; 



Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 213. 

 Cleophana ferrieri. Bell. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1857, p. 13, pi. 1. f. 1. 



Head and thorax pale olive-green mixed with some rufous, the 

 crests on vertex of head, pro- and metathorax with darker tips ; 

 abdomen greyish tinged with olive, dorsally irrorated with fuscous 

 and ventrally tinged with rufous towards extremity. Fore wing 

 pale olive-green, the veins with slight dark streaks ; a diffused 

 rufous medial shade with pale point on it below cell ; a diffused 

 whitish mark at lower angle of cell ; the terminal area suffused 

 with rufous above and below discal fold ; cilia chequered dark 



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Fig. 18. — Coplphana olivina, J". 1. 



brown and white. Hind wing fuscous brown ; cilia white tinged 

 with rufous at base. Underside of fore wing fuscous, the terminal 

 area whitish ; hind wing white with slight somewhat diffused 

 fuscous streaks along the veins. 



Hah. Italy; Dalmatia ; BuLGAPaA ; Asia Minor, Pontus, Leech 

 Coll., Taurus ; Sykia, Leech Coll. Exp. 28-32 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Motlis Eur. p. 253 ; Hffm. Eaup. p. 125. 



lleddish yellow with pale dorsal line and four slender lateral 

 black lines. Food-plant, Dianthus. 



Genus CLEOPHAITA. 



Cleophana., Boiscl. Ind. Meth. p. 151 (1840) 



Type. 

 hcetica. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint clothed with lono' 

 hair, the 3rd rather long ; frons with corneous prominence with raised edges 

 and corneous process in centre hollowed out at extremity; eyes large, rounded ; 

 antenna of male typically witli moderate branches decreasing to base and 

 extremity ; head and thorax clothed with hair only, the vertex of head with 

 large crest ol hair, shoulders with crests of hair, pro- and metathorax with 

 double crests, patagia with curled-up tufts at extremity ; pectus and tibi;B 

 clothed with long hair ; abdomen with some rough hair at base, usually a large 

 crest on 2nd segment and lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing with the costa 

 rather concave, the termen evenly curved, the inner margin lobed near base, 

 the tornus with scale- tooth; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from 

 upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

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

 discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with cell near base only. 



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