408 NOCTUIDJE. 



C. Fore wing- with no areole, veins 8, 9, 10 



stalked. 



a. Hind, wing with veins 3, 4 stalked ; fore 



wing with the outer margin very ir- [p. 425. 



regular 15. Tortriciforma, 



b. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from cell .... 16. Tinosoma. p. 426. 



D. Fore wing with veins 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked . . 8. Clethrophora, 



[p. 416. 



Genus COSMOPHILA. 



Cosmophila, Boisd. Faun. Ent. Mad. p. 94 (1833). 

 Lineopalpa, Guen. Noct. ii, p. 290 (1852). 

 Gonitis, Guen. Noct. ii, p. 403. 

 Busicada, Wlh. Cat. xiii, p. 1006 (1857). 

 Thalatta, Wlk. Cat. xiii, p. 996 (1857). 

 Tiridata, Wlh. Cat. xxxiii, p. 870 (1865). 

 Diremrna, Wlh. Cat. xxxiii, p. 863. 

 Phalga, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 375. 



Type, C. erosa, Hiibn. 



Mange. Nearctic and throughout the tropical and subtropical 

 zones. 



Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head, the 3rd 

 long and slender ; a blunt frontal tuft ; antennae minutely ciliated 

 in male or pectinated ; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled ; 

 tibiae without spines. Fore wing with the apex produced and 

 acute ; the outer margin angled or produced to a point in the 

 middle. Hind wing with vein 5 from below centre of discocellulars. 



Larvce with the thoracic somites not swollen. 



Sect. I. (Lineopalpa}. Fore wing long, with the outer 



margin oblique. 



A. Antennas of male ciliated. 



2300. Cosmophila mesogona, Wlh. Cat. xiii, p. 1002 ; Moore, Lep. 

 Ceyl. iii, pi. 153, tig. 8 ; C. $ S. no. 2244. 



Head and fore wing greyish red-brown ; abdomen pale brown. 

 Fore wing varying from greyish red-brown to dark or bright red- 

 brown, striated with grey ; a short subbasal line ; an antemedial 

 grey and brown line bent outwards at median nervure, then almost 

 straight to inner margin ; two black specks at end of cell ; a post- 

 medial line angled below costa, then nearly straight to vein 4, 

 where it is recurved to below end of cell, then nearly straight to 

 inner margin ; an indistinct diffused submarginal dark shade angled 

 at centre ; a marginal rufous line. Hind wing pale brown. 

 Underside with the costa and outer areas of both wings striated 

 with red-brown. 



Hah. Throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Java. Exp. 42-44 

 nrillim. 



