. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 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
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 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 s
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