. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. HrPOMECIA. COPIPHANA. 95 cell, with some black scales on its inner edge ; some white points on costa towards apex ; subterminal line represented by a series of slight white streaks with obscure dentate blackish marks before them, defined on inner side by an oblique white band from vein 4 to inner margin ; cilia chequered brown and white. Hind wing^. Fig. Ifi.—Hi/2^omec(a quadriviryula, (^. \. white with fine brown terminal line; the underside with the costal and terminal areas slightly irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal l
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. HrPOMECIA. COPIPHANA. 95 cell, with some black scales on its inner edge ; some white points on costa towards apex ; subterminal line represented by a series of slight white streaks with obscure dentate blackish marks before them, defined on inner side by an oblique white band from vein 4 to inner margin ; cilia chequered brown and white. Hind wing^. Fig. Ifi.—Hi/2^omec(a quadriviryula, (^. \. white with fine brown terminal line; the underside with the costal and terminal areas slightly irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal luuule. Hah. Algeria; Palestine,! (S . Xr^^. 34 millim. Genus COPIPHANA, nov. Type, C. olivina. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, fringed with long hair in front; frons with large corneous prominence with raised rim and central process hollowed out in front; eyes large, rounded ; antenna; of male bipecti- nate or with small laminate serrations ; head and thorax clothed with long rough hair only, the vertex of head with crest of hair, siioulders with crests pro- and metathorax with double crests, patagia with curled-up tufts at extremity ; pectus and tibia^ clothed with long hair ; fore tibia with curved claw on inner side at extremity ; abdomen with some rough hair at base, large crest ou 2nd segment typically present, and lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing with the costa somewhat concave, the ternien evenly curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole, or abnormally 9 and 10 anastomosing with 8; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Sect. I. Antennas of male bipectinate with moderate branches decreasing to- base and apex; abdomen without dorsal crest. 2190. Copiphana gassana. Cleophana gasoana, Bang-Haas, ined. Head and thorax white slightly mixed with
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