COSMOPHILA. 409 



2301 . Cosmophila sabnlifera, Gum. Noct. ii, p. 404. 



Gonitis involuta, Wlk. Cat. xiii, p. 1003 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, 



pi. 153, fig. 7 ; C.Sf S. no. 2241. 

 Gonitis basalis, Wlk. Cat. xiii, p. 1004. 

 Gonitis propinqna, Butl. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 497. 

 Tiiidata colligate, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 870. 



Differs from mesogona in the anternedial line of fore wing being 

 bent outwards between vein 1 and inner margin ; the postmedial 

 line incurved beyond the cell. 



The form sabulifera has diffused black on the anternedial line of 

 fore wing and between the postmedial and submarginal lines ; a 

 small orbicular spot usually present, and two specks conjoined 

 into a reniform spot; in involuta the colouring is similar to 

 mesogona. 



Hah. Throughout Africa ; Aden ; India, Ceylon, and Burma. 

 Exp. 32-38 millim. 



2302. Cosmophila trilineata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 21, pi. 6, fig. 1 ; 



C. $ S. no. 2246. 



Differs from mesogona in being much redder. Tore wing with 

 straight oblique subbasal and anternedial pale lines ; a pale line on 

 discocellulars. 



Hah. Bombay. Exp. 40 millim. 



2303. Cosmophila fulvida, Guen. Noct. ii, p. 397 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. 



ii, pi. 155, figs. 3, 3 a (larva) j C. $ S. no. 2240. 

 Gonitis metaxantha, Wlk. Cat. xiii, p. 1005 ; C. Sf 8. no. 2245. 

 Gonitis gnttanivis, Wlk. Cat. xiii, p. 1003. 

 Gonitis combinans, Wlk. Cat. xiii, p. 1001. 

 Gonitis commoda, Butl. A.M.N. H. (5) i, 1878, p. 203. 

 Gonitis privata, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 863. 

 Gonitis revocans, Wlk. Cat. xv, p. 1794. 

 Gonitis vulpina, Butl. Tr. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 408. 

 Gonitis xanthochroa, Butl. Tr. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 409. 

 Gonitis inducens, Wlk. Cat. xiii, p. 1004. 

 Diremma simulatrix, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 864. 

 Gonitis albitibia, Wlk. Cat. xiii, p. 1001 ; C. $ S. no. 2236. 

 Kusicada nigritarsis, Wlk. Cat. xiii, p. 1006 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. 



iii, pi. 155 ; figs. 2 ; 2 a, b, c, d (larva). 



Head and thorax bright or dark 

 ferruginous red-brown ; abdomen 

 reddish fuscous ; fore tibia and 

 1st joint of tarsus white. Fore 

 wing bright or dark ferruginous or 

 yellowish red-brown ; a short sub- 

 basal line ; an anternedial line 

 oblique from costa to below cell, 

 then waved to inner margin; the 



n i •/ ?■' 77 * i orbicular a white speck ; the reni- 



Cosmophila fulvida. S . \. n . ,. ,. -, 1 ■ ,., i -, 



form indistinct and often reduced 



to two spots or to one white or dark spot at lower angle of cell ; a 



