. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 562 NOCTUIDiE, Genus COPHANTA. Type. Cophmita, Wlk. ssx. 964 (1864) funestalis. Toxofhleps, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. ix. p. 124 (1893) funestalis. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to vertex of head and rather broadly scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth, roughly scaled ; eyes large, round ; anteunje of male somewhat laminate and minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests; tibiss smoothly scaled ; abdomen with dorsal crests, the crests on 3rd and 4


. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 562 NOCTUIDiE, Genus COPHANTA. Type. Cophmita, Wlk. ssx. 964 (1864) funestalis. Toxofhleps, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. ix. p. 124 (1893) funestalis. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to vertex of head and rather broadly scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth, roughly scaled ; eyes large, round ; anteunje of male somewhat laminate and minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests; tibiss smoothly scaled ; abdomen with dorsal crests, the crests on 3rd and 4th segments large. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked; 8 anasto- mosing with the cell near base only. Sect. I. Fore wing of male with the subcostal nervure strongly curved down- wards beyond vein 11, with an elongate groove above it on upperside. 5844. Cophanta funestalis. Cophanta funestalis, Wlk. xxx. 964 (1864). Erastria anthracina, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxiii. p. 59, pi. 5. f. 7 (1880). Tarache optiva, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 224; Hrapsn. 111. Het. B. M. ix. p. 124, pi. 167. f. 26; id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 307. Head, thorax, and abdomen black mixed with leaden grey; tarsi ringed with white : anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing purplish grey irrorated with black and with a silvery gloss, the medial area suffused with blackish; some blackish suffusion at base of costa, the antemedial area with a blackish shade ; antemedial line double,. Fig. 154.— Cophanta funestalis, c5'. |. blackish, excurved from below costa to median nervure, then waved and filled in by two yellow lunules ; postmedial line double, oblique from costa to vein 6, slightly angled inwards at discal fold and outwards at vein 4, then incurved and minutely waved, with small yellow lu


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