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

LEPIDOPTERA OF TllE FAYILT ETQES1D.R. 30 1
2. 11. FULVINOTA, n. sp.
0. Closely allied to H. americana, but larger, with a roniral fulvous
spot at end of cell in primaries ; the collar only fulvous at the sides ;
the abdomen greenish, with the basal segments margined laterally
with fulvous : expnnse of wings 31 millims.
Espiritu Santo (liiggins). Type, B.M.
The following genus appears to me to belong to the Zgeriidae,
or at any rate Walker’s species. Felder’s may be a Urodus, but
is, I think, congeneric with Walker’s.
Genus POLYL’HLYBIA, #elder.
1. POLYPHLEBIA ATYcHloIDES, Felder, Reise de n’ou. Lep. iv. pi.
102. fig. 38.
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2. POLYPHLEBIA? BUPRESTOIDES=-~C~~~~~ buprestoides,
Lep. Het. Suppl. i. p. 101.
Walker,
Farti (Bates). Type B.M
Subfamily EUCHROMIINB.
Antennre of males pectinated, Aecondwies with the cell termi-
nating at each extremity in a simple fork, that is to say, the sub-
costal and median nervures each terminate in two branches diver-
ging from one point *.
Section a. Wings opaque.
Group a. a. First median branch in secondaries forked at its outer extre-
mity, anal valves of males expanded and prominent.
Genus EYPYREUIUA, Hiibner. P1. XXVIII. fig. 19.
1. EMPYREUMA LICHAS, Fabric.
Haiti, Cuba, Honduras.
2. E. PUCIOKE, Linn.
Jamaica.
Group a. b. First median branch in secondaries simple, anal valvea of
male normal.
Genus HISTIOEA, Walker. P1. XXVIII. fig. 21.
f Abdomen with basal cream-coloured band.
B.M.
B.M.
1. HISTIOEA
cEPnEua, Cramer.
Venezuela. B.M.
* Pseudobphenqtern ia an exception ; for here the branches of the median
newiire nre emitted normnlly, although the first branch in abaent, leaving only
two.
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