NYCTYOIA. THECOPHOEA. 301 



brown, a black diseoidal lunule and traces of a sinuous postmedial 

 line. 



2 darker ; fore wing more suffused with fuscous on basal and 

 terminal areas, the subterminal line better defined. 



Hub. PuNJ-AB, Dharmsala {Hocking), 1 J , 3 $ , type. Ea-p, 

 34 millim. 



Genus THECOPHOEA. ^ 



'I ype. 



Thecophora, Led. Noct. Eur. p. 99 (1837) fovea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturjied, fringed with long hair in front, 

 the 3rd joint porrect; frons smooth, rounded, with large frontal tuft; eyes 

 rather small and reniform ; antennte of male minutely ciliated ; head and 

 thorax clothed chiefly with long scales, the pro- and metathoraxwith spreading 

 crests ; pectus with long hair ; tibiaj fringed with hair ; hind tibiae in male 

 very short, the 1st joint of tarsus very long, the spines on it playing on the 

 dilated extremity of subcostal nervure forming the keel of the vei-y large boat- 

 shaped fovea on disk of hind wing ; abdomen with" dorsal series of crests, the 

 male with tufts of long hair protrusible from lateral stigmata. Fore wing 

 triangular, the terraen obliquely curved and rather crenulate ; 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 just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly 

 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



2469. Thecophora fovea. 



Phlogopliora fovea, Treit. Eiu-. Schraett., Noct. v. pt. i. p. 380 (1825) ; Diip. 

 L(§p. Fr. vi'i. p. 49, pi. 103. ff. 4-5 ; Geyer, Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 753-6 ; 

 Frr. Eeitr. pi. 46; Meig. Syst. Besch. iii. p. 119, pi. 101. f. 10; Friv. 

 Tudoni. Akad. Erkon. xi. pt. 4, pi. 5. ff. 7, a-c ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 182. 



Head and thorax rufous mixed with some black ; tarsi fuscous 

 with ochreous rings ; abdomen greyish and fuscous tinged with 

 purplish pink. Fore wing brown suffused with purple and fuscous ; 

 a slight black streak below base of cell ; subbasal line double, waved, 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line strong, double, 

 angled outwards below costa, then oblique, waved, angled inwards 

 on vein 1 and to inner margin, above which there is an oblique 



Fig. 93. — Thcco'phora fovea, (^ . \. 



black bar on its inner side ; claviform large, filled in with black ; 

 orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former oblique elliptical, 

 with traces of ochreous annulus, the latter slightly angled inwards 

 on median nervure, with its outer part ochreous, its centre slightlj^ 

 defined by brown ; traces of a waved medial line ; postmedial line 

 double, filled in with ochreous at costa and traversing a diffused 



