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

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a genua of dvev twenty years before it way chsraclerized a3 a
group of Lepidopterous insects.
2. I. FLAVICORNIS= Sphinx flavirornis, Fabricius, Mart. Ins. ii.
p. 104.
Glaucopis (Isanthrene) verpoides, Walker, Lep. Het. i. p. 155.
Villa Nova and Par4 (Botes). B.M.
3. I. USTRINA, Hiibner, Samml. Exot. Schmett. figs. 493, 494.
Brazil (Mornay 4 Becker) .
B.M.
4. I. INOENUIARIA=GIB~~O~~S incendiaria, Hiibner, Samnil. pl. 166.
Glaucopis (Isanthrene) haricornin, WuZker (nec Fabr.), L. If. p. 155.
S. America. B.M.
5. 1. MAXIMA, n. sp.
Nearly allied to I. incendiaria, but larger, with smaller yellow spots on
the shoulders. only the first three segments of abdomen laterally
spotted with yellow, dorsal bluish spots larger, ventral white spots
rnther smaller; apical black area of primaries decidedly larger : ex-
panse of wings 57 millims.
Rio (J. P. G. &nSmith). Type, B.M.
(i. I. PEREO~CII=~~allCOplS perboscii, Guirin, Ic. R+g. him. p. 501.
Campeachy Bay.
7. I. BASIPERA, Walker, Lep. Het. Suppl. i. p. M.
Bogota.:
Seems allied to I ince,rdinria.
Gciius HOJIEOCERA, Feldcr. PI. XXVII. fig. 6.
1. HOMCEOCERA CRARSA, Felder. Heise der Non. Lep. iv. teb. cii.
fig. 26.
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2. H. JaNsosrs=Ciymnelia jansonis, Butler, Lep. Exot. pl. Ixi.
fig. 17.
Cartago, Costn Rica (Van Palten). Type, B.M.
3. H, STRETCHII,
n. sp.
Body golden yellow, back of head black, enclosing two large metallic
blue-green spots; antennae black (2 nith a central )ellow streakj;
collar with a black spot on each side ; pterygodes with a black margin
all round ; protliorax with two parallel clavate central black stripes
enclosing metailic preen spots in the claws; metathorax with two
black-encircled metallic-green spots ; hind margin of thorax black ;
basal segment of abdomen narrowly edged behind with black, other
vegments broadly margined behind with black, two metallic blue-
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