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110 U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 25 7
8. A subrectangular transverse blotch on costa at 3/4, a broad terminal band;
ground color whitish ochreous (New Guinea) . . . . C. lignisquama
No large blotches along posterior part of costa, no terminal band. Ground
color white (Fiji)
C. gypsota
9. More than one larger dark spot in disc 10
Only one larger dark patch or suffusion in disc 11
10. Some four discal spots of diverse size; very large species (36 mm) (Solomon
Is.)
C, tetrarcha
About 16 raised big scale tufts, edged with whitish and with metallic violet.
A species of moderate size (16-18 mm) (India) C. myrmecias
11. Small dark fuscous or blackish irregular dots along costa in 2-3 transverse
rows beyond cell and raised tufts along edges of cell 12
No raised dark tufts along edges of cell 13
12. Transtilla circular, with two pairs of sclerotized or spined cusps (Assam).
C. pleurophanes
Transtilla, two semicordiform plates, with only one pair of sclerotizations
(Java)
C. roepkei
13. An invert-trapezoidal well-defined dark patch in center of disc, a dark streak
along basal third of dorsum (New Ireland)
C. nesographa
Discal patch irregular, no dorsal streak 14
14. Antenna in both sexes lamellate (Solomon Is.) C. thrombota
Antenna in cf unipectinate (2>0, in 9 stout, serrulate (New Guinea).
C. narcodes
Copromorpha smaragdarcha, new species
Figures 137, 572
Male, 14.5 mm. Head light ochreous. Antenna light ochreous,
banded with brown above (imperfect). Palpus with median segment
roughly edged below, terminal segment over 1/2; dark fuscous olive,
median segment with a light ochreous apical ring, terminal segment
whitish, with a dark fuscous-oUve median ring. Thorax olive, paler
at apex (abdomen mounted).
Forewing ovate-sub truncate, dilated, broadest at 2/3, costa little
curved at extreme base, straight along 2/3, gently angulate and prominent
at that point, last third slightly slanting but little curved, apex
broadly rounded, termen rounded, vertical. Greenish olive, indistinctly
spotted and clouded with fuscous-green tinge, more distinct
in certain lights; indication of raised tufts of scales,
especially along
the closing vein; posterior fourth of wing less olive, more fuscousbrown
tinged; costa with a suffused dark olive-green-fuscous streak,
becoming paler posteriorly; four small sub triangular white spots along
posterior third of costa, first of these ill defined; seven or eight slender
unequally spaced, undulating transverse streaks of shining emerald
green and prismatic scales, irregular, partially obliterate, some of them
interconnected; smaU tufts of blackish-fuscous scales on veins, forming
an irregular somewhat zigzag transverse band halfway between cell
and termen. Cilia dull dark greyish fuscous with little contrasting
basal, postmedian, and subapical fuscous-olive lines.