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

380 JIB. A. 0. BUTLEE ON THE
This species is the type of the genus Erruca ; kocharis can
scarcely be said to have a type ; I therefore prefer to consider L.
stutta and allies as representing that genus.
Genus SPHECOPSIS, Felder.
1. SPHECOPSIS HYALOZONA, Felder, Reise der Noo. Lep. iv. pl. cii.
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fig. 29.
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Although I do not intend to incorporate in the present paper
all the new Zygaenidee described by Felder, but only those genera
ofwhich we possess representatives in the collection of the British
Museum, I have been tempted to quote the above aa being a
transition from Emca to Xyrmecopsis.
Genus MYRMECOPSIS, N.an. PI. XXVTI. figs. 8, 9.
1. MYRMBCOPRIS TARsALxs=Glaucopis (Pseudosphex) tarsalis,wu~ker,
Ley. Het. i. p. 196.
Park (Bates). Type, B.M.
2. M. sEMIHYALINA=G~aucopis semihyalina, H’ulker, Lep. Het. i.
p. 197.
Pseudosphex vespiformis, N.-Sch. Auss. Schmett. fig. 425.
Park (Bates). Type, B.M.
3. M. OPACA, Walker, Lep. Het. vii. p. 1620.
Par& (Bates).
4. M. icnNEuMoNEA=nov. gen. Ichneumonea, H. ScLAuss. Schmett.
fig. 225.
Brazil.
5. M. POLJsTEs= Pseudosphex polistes, Hiibnw, Ezot. Schm. Zutr.
figs. 39, 40.
M. eumenides, Newman, .Tool. viii. Append. cxrii.
Ega (Bates). B.M.
The genus Myrzecopsis has been confounded by Dr. Herrich-
Schiiffer with Psevdosphex ; it was not, however, founded upon
Hiibner’s type (which was P. rethue); it differs entirely in neuration
from that insect and its allies, and must therefore be retained
as distinct with Newman’s designation. Herrich-SchUer
had the acumen to see how entirely different the two types were ;
but he took the type of Peeudosphex out of its genus and conetituted
for it his genus Abrodin j he appears to me, honwer, to