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COENOTEPHRIA. By L. B. Prout. 
subochraria. 
fuscinata. 
uncinata. 
inter calata. 
replicata. 
approxima¬ 
te. 
gallinata. 
apotoma. 
assimilata. 
microcyma. 
homophana. 
sustenta. 
homophoeta. 
championi. 
based on secondary sexual characters would regard this as a section of Larentia, those who over-rate the taxo¬ 
nomic importance of the E antenna alone have made an impossible union with Hydriomena. There are about 
70 species which come within my present conception of “Coenotephria”, the great majority of them Palaearctic; 
most of the residue Antarctic, chiefly Chilian. 
C. subochraria Dbld. (= strangulata Guen.) (26 k). Palpus moderate. Antenna of the £ dentate, the 
teeth moderately ciliated. Recognizable by its yellow colour, narrow median band and paucity of other markings: 
even the median band is not solid except at hindmargin, though it is often dark at its distal edge, sometimes 
broadly so. It was one of the earliest discoveries in New Zealand, where it is widely distributed and very common 
in open country, frequenting tussock grass. Also recored from Chatham Island and common in temperate 
Australia: West Australia and Queensland to Tasmania. — ab. fuscinata Guen. has both wings more or less 
strongly infuscated. the band likewise darkened. Only known from New Zealand, where it has been reported 
locally abundant in swampy plains. 
C. uncinata Guen. (= plurilineata Walk.) (26 1 $). Very variable in colour (pale greyish to brown, 
yellowish or reddish) and in the strength of the markings, but the shape of the fore wing will at once distinguish 
even its yellowest forms from subochraria-, usually also, subapical markings are much better developed than 
in that species and frequently the basal patch is developed or indicated. Structure similar. Generally common 
from West Australia and New South Wales to Tasmania and known from one or two Queensland localities. 
The type $, from Tasmania, is a weakly marked form, pale chamois with darker lines, only the antemedian 
and a group of 2 or 3 postmedian more strongly expressed. — ab. intercalata Walk, is intermediate between 
this and the following. ab. replicata Walk. (= revulsaria Walk.) has further developed costal spots at the 
boundaries of the median area and a single dark one at its hindmargin. — ab. approximata Walk, is a pretty 
form, delicate grey with subbasal, ante- and postmedian bands and the 3 subapical spots orange-bi’own. 
gallinata Feld., a $ from Sydney, is almost synonymous with the type, though with subapical merk well 
developed and with rather strong lines, but not (as the figure makes it) with a median especially developed. 
C. apotoma Turn., founded on $$ only, is probably nearest to uncinata, but with shorter palpus (1%) 
and differently shaped hindwing: “termen slightly wavy, straight”. Forewing grey, tinged with reddish purple, 
basal patch and median band faintly indicated, cell-dot minute. Hindwing somewhat paler, with dark cell-dot 
and towards termen several fine lines. Beaconsfield, near Melbourne, in June and July. Superficially rather 
like Euphyia trygodes Meyr. I suspect it will sink to the following. 
C. assimilata Walk. (26 1). A very poor $ from “Swan River” (the old specimens so labelled have mostly 
proved to be E. Australian); we give the best figure that its condition allows. Glossy purplish grey, the basal 
patch and median band (except its central section) on the forewing above more orange-brownish: all marking 
very weak, on the hindwing and underside apparently wanting; beneath, a. considerable part of the hindwing 
and at least part of the costal region of the forewing (distally) of the browner hue. 
C. microcyma Meyr. (26 k). A small and very unimposing species, especially in the weakly marked 
forms. Palpus l^; $ antenna somewhat thickened, ciliation y 2 . Forewing rather broad, termen waved, not 
very oblique, hindwing irregularly crenulate; in the type form, the subbasal, antemedian and postmeclian lines 
are accentuated by black, as well as white dots, but the black ones are, in some specimens, scarcely visible 
without the lens; proximal half of costa of forewing somewhat infuscated. Victoria, South Australia and Tas¬ 
mania, the type probably Tasmanian. 
C. homophana Hmps. (Suppl.-Vol. 4, pi. 13 i). Superficially very closely similar to Colostygia albigirata; 
subbasal line of forewing generally less angled, antemedian with a strong additional tooth outward about the 
fold, postmedian with the irregidarities somewhat less extreme. The is of course easily distinguished by the 
antenna, which is nearly simple — laterally compressed and with extremely short ciliation. Simla (type). 
Dalhousie and Kashmir. — sustenta Prout, from, W. China, has the proximal dark shade of the subterminal of the 
forewing almost continuous, more uniform, the only prominent darkening there on being the pair of spots at 
the radials. — A further local race in the Peter the Great Mountains, see Suppl.-Vol. 4, p. 140. 
C. homophoeta Prout (Suppl.-Vol. 4, pi. 13 i). Distinguished from homophana by the $ antenna, which 
is subdentate, with ciliation nearly as long as its diameter, by the brown suffusions in places and especially a 
wash of rather light cinnamon in the distal area between the 1st radial and 2nd median and by the development 
of a roundish clear white spot in front of the 3rd radial; hindwing becoming rather suddenly pale or white behind 
the postmedian. Kashmir. 
C. championi Prout\ Suppl.-Vol. 4, pi. 13 i). Antennal structure nearly as in homophoeta. Rather larger 
and more resembling Euphyia variegata Moore (27 k). Median band of forewing somewhat less sharply blackish 
than in that species, its distal edge indanted rather than incurved at the 2nd radial, the lobe behind this slight, 
