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

LEPIDOPTERA OF THE FAMTl>T ZTG.RNIl)X. 359
3. S. AURIPRONS, Walker, Lep. Het. Suppl. i. p. 109 (1864).
Sierra Leone (Foscroft). ~ ~ ~ e .
One of the most beautiful of the Zyganids.
Genus PHACUSA, Walker. P1. XXVIII. fiq. 15.
mr.
1. PHACUSA TBNEBROSA =Glaucopis (Phacnsa) tenebrosa, Walker9
Lep. Het. i. p. 150.
Syntomis tenebrosa, W’aZker, Lep. Het. vii. p. 1592.
India (Steums). Type, B.M.
2. P. CRAWPURDI = Syntomis Crawfurdi, Noore, P. 2. S. 1859, pl. 60.
fig. 11.
Java (Horsjeld). Type, B.M.
Genus TRYBETER, Boisdrval. P1. XXVIII. fig. 11.
1. THYRETES HIPPOTEs=Sphinx hippotes, ~ramer, Pup. Esot. iii.
pl. 286. f. A.
Cape of Good I-Iope. d, 9, B.M.
2. T. CAFFHA, Wallengren, Kongl. Svenska. Vetensk. Aknd. Handl. v.
p. 11.
South Africa.
Rather smaller in both sexes than the preceding species.
3. T. bioNTANA, Roisd. Voy. de Deleg. ii. p. 597, et Wallengren,
op. cit.
East Caffraria.
4. T. MONTEIROI, n. sp.
Body ochre .yellow, eyes, antennae, centre of dorsum, aud edges of ahclominnl
.segments black-brown, a line clown each side of the abdomen
of the same colonr : wings dwk brown; a tcstaceous hyaline band
from centre of inner margin, round lower edge of cell, to lower radial
nervure, cut by the median branches into four unequal parts ; a semicircular
spot of the same colour within the end of the cell, and another
oval spot near apex ; secondarics with the basal half irregularly testaceous
hjaline ; an oval Lifid disco-submnrginal spot of the same colonr,
cut by the third median nervure : below nearly as above : expanse of
wings 30 millims.
Ambriz (Monteiro). Type, B.M.
A very pretty little species.
Genus APISA, Walker.
1. .~PISA CANESCENS, Walker, Lep. Hef. iv. p. 917, n. 1 (1855).
South Africa (Argent). Type, B.M.
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