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

378
MR. A. 0. BUTLEB ON TllU
3. E. vaR1A=Olaucopis (Ismthrene) varia, Walker, T q . Ifet. i.
p. 157.
Park (Bates).
Type, B.M.
4. E. GRESADEXVBIS, n. sp.
Head black, a metallic-blue spot on the crest ; antennae brown, tawny
at the base; collar black, with a blue spot on each side ; thorax black,
an orange spot on the shoultlers; metathorax with a large bilobed
yellow spot in the centre ; abdomen shining. blackish piceous ; Im;il
segment with two anterior central yellow spots, and a yellow spot on
each side : wings testareous byaline ; apex of primaries broadly black,
outer margin narrowly black, projecting inwards along submediaii
nervure ; inner margin narrowly bliwk, costal margin very narrowly
black; costal and internal areoles orange, also the median nervnre aid
its second and third branches ; secondaries with the apical third of
costal margin and the outer and abdominal margins narrowly black ;
costal areole ochreous : body below black; thorax spotted with blue :
first two segments of abdomen laterally spotted with white, next two
segments with blue ; legs black, with deep yellow tarsi : expanse of
wings 40 millima.
Pacho, Province of Cundiuamarcba, New Granada (Jawson).
Type, B.M.
Somewhat allied to E. curia.
5. E. NOTIPENNIR, n. sp.
Allied to E. machilis, wings the same, excepting that the narrow blnck
margin and the hlack spot near anal angle of secondaries are better
defined ; body quite tlifferent : head lilac above ; face white, with n
central lilac spot ; antennae tawny ; collar and pterygodes black with
a yellow margin; thorax black-brown with a central pale yellow line
terminating behind in a spot of the same colour, two blue spots 011
either side of the central line ; prothorax with two additional slender
diverging yellow lines ; metathorux black, with a yellowish spot iii
the middle and one on each side ; two basal segments of abdomen
yellow internally, tawny across the middle, and black externally ; re-
maining segments black, second to fifth segment with lateral lilac
streak ; palpi, pectus. outer margin of first ventral segment, second
segment and front of third segment rream-coloured; a lateral
line on palpi, the legs, basal segment, and sides of second seg-
ment orange ochreous; u line on upper surface of femora, on tho
last pair of tilm, on all the tarsi, a spot at proximal end of tibiae, the
outer half of the third and the whole of the remaining segments of
venter black ; a spot on upper surface of distal end of froiit tibiae, a
spot on each side of the metatborax, and a series of liturae on each
side of lust segments of venter lilac : expanse of wings 40 millime.
Villa Nova (Bates). Type, B.M.