. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. COPHANTA. XANTHOSEAPTA. 563 Ab. 1, optiva. Fore wing with, the ante- and postmedial lines entirely filled in by yellow lunules. Hah. Ceylon, Pundaloya {Green), 1 <S; Burma, Rangoon, 1 6, 1 5 type ojptiva ; Borneo, Sarawak (Wallace), 5 d, 1 § type; Celebes, type f J, $ anth-acina in Coll. Snellen ; Qtjbensland, Townsville {Docld), 1 d". Exp. 16 millim. Sect. II. Fore wing of male normal. 5845. Cophanta occidentalis, n. sp. (S. Head, thorax, and abdomen purplish grey mixed with fuscous; pectus, legs, and ventral surface
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. COPHANTA. XANTHOSEAPTA. 563 Ab. 1, optiva. Fore wing with, the ante- and postmedial lines entirely filled in by yellow lunules. Hah. Ceylon, Pundaloya {Green), 1 <S; Burma, Rangoon, 1 6, 1 5 type ojptiva ; Borneo, Sarawak (Wallace), 5 d, 1 § type; Celebes, type f J, $ anth-acina in Coll. Snellen ; Qtjbensland, Townsville {Docld), 1 d". Exp. 16 millim. Sect. II. Fore wing of male normal. 5845. Cophanta occidentalis, n. sp. (S. Head, thorax, and abdomen purplish grey mixed with fuscous; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen paler, the tarsi ringed with whitish. Fore wing purple-grey irrorated with fuscous and a few silvery scales; subbasal line represented by two slight dark striae from costa; antemedial line indistinctly double filled in with yellow, waved; postmedial line double filled in with. Fig. 155.—Cophanta occidentalis, cf. |. yellow, the outer line indistinct, slightly angled outwards below costa, excurved at middle, then oblique, waved, some white points beyond it on costa; sub terminal line represented by whitish points from vein 6 to inner margin, excurved at middle ; a terminal black line ; cilia with a fine pale line at base. Hind wing grey suffused with brown ; a fine whitish line at base of cilia; the underside whitish thickly irrorated with fuscous, a rather diffused curved postmedial line. Hah. Sieera Leone {Clements), 3 c? type. Exp. 16 millim. Genus XANTHOGRAPTA, nov. Type, X. trilatalis. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth, roughly scaled; eyes large, round; antennae of male somewhat laminate and minutely ciliated; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with depressed crest; tibise smoothly scaled; abdomen with large crests on 3rd and 4th segments. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly cur
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