Notes on the Lepidoptera of the Family Zygnid, with ... - Wallace Online

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exactly as in S. tkelebus; primaries with a small subquadrate spot at
base ; two slightly diverging large spots across the middle, and two
on disk (the lower one bifid and touching the centre of outer margin),
apex white-tipped ; secondaries hyaline, with the margins irregularly
black-brown : expanse of wings 28 millims.
China, Foo-choo-foo (Lay). Type, B.M.
Most nearly allied to S. aperriens.
It appears to me that the Syntomins would be most conveni-
ently restricted (by the character of simple filiform antennae) to
the genera Syntomis (including Cmizochromia of Hiibner), Burla-
cena, Byblisisia, Helisa, and Naclia (or Dysauxes) ; the African re-
presentatives of the last-mentioned genus have pectinated antenna:
and the hind-wing neuration of Eutomis ; N. puella and gnatuln
may therefore be referred to the next subftamily under the generic
name of Pseudonaclia. The following genus may be added :-
CALLITOXIS, nov. gen. P1. XXVII. fig. 1.
Allied to S'iztomis, bub antenns with fewer articulations, the latter
more pronounced, and bearing minute hairs, but not serrated or
pectinated ; wings much broader, veiiation almost as in ZIy-
drusa. Type C: syntonzoicles, n. sp.
1. CALLITOMIS SYNTOMOIDES, n. sp.
Body blue-black ; abdomen with a spot at the base, and the fifth segment
orange j pectus with two lateral orange spots ; primaries dull
dark green ; an interno-median snbbasal dot, a large siibqnatlrate
spot near the end of discoidal cell, a transverse litura below it, and a
small bifid spot crossing the base of the third median branch ochreous
; secondaries dull brown, discocellular region slightly greenish :
wings below, brown ; primaries spotted as above ; secondaries with
two diffused ochreous spots near the base, one interno-median, the
other abdominal : expanse of wings 34 millims.
Cashmere. Type, coll. F. Moore.
2. c. LEUCOSOMA, 11. Sp.
Body ochreous, antenna: and legs greenish black : wings dull semitransparent
brown ; primaries with ochreous spots almost as in the preceding
species ; secondaries with the Imse and the interno-median area
from the origin of the first median branch to ihe base pale ochreous ;
an ochreous spot on the first median interspace : below as above :
expanse of wings 30 millims.
(hsh in cre . Type, coll. P. JI