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

3 86 YE. A. 0. BUTLER ON THE
abdomen ; costre of wings golden yellow, otherwise aa above : expanse
of wings 37 millims.
Santa Martha (Bouchard). Type, B.M.
3. P. INTENSA=GlaUcOpiS (Poecilosoma) intensa, Walker, hp. Het. i.
p. 159.
Houduras (Dyson). Type, B.M.
This species, in the character of its body, recalls the genus
Suurita. The genus, as a group, nearly approaches Qymnelia.
Genus MOCHLOPTEBA, n. gen. P1. XXVII. fig. 16.
Glaucopis (part), EIerrich-Schafer.
Allied to Qymnelia, but distiiiguivhed at a glaiice from all the
allied genera by the breadth of’the primaries, the longer legs,
and the position of the first branch ofthe niedian nervure, which
is emitted almost from the same point as the second branch, so
that the three median branches and the lower radial are all
crowded together at the lower extremity of the cell.
Type, N. acroxantha, Perty.
1. MOCHLOPTERA ACROXANTHA = Glaucopis acroxantha. Perty,
Delect. pl. 31. fig. 4.
Brazil (Stevens). B.M.
Perty’s figure represents the primnriee as much narrower than
they really are, the outer rnargiu in the insect being nearly equal
to the inner.
2. M. ? XANTHOCBRA=Gymneh xanthocera, Walker, Lep. Het. vii,
p. 1603.
Brazil.
Genus COSMOSOMA, Hiibner. P1. XXVII. fig. 3.
1. COSMOSOMA PANOPES= Laeinochnris panopes, Herrich-Schq$m,
Auss. Schm. fig. 243.
Glaucopis (Paecilosoma) subflamma, Walker, I.9. Ilet. i. p. 159.
Brazil (Stevens). B.M.
2. C. ELEGANS, n. sp.
JIead black, frons with two white dots, back of head with two metallic-
blue dots; antennse black ; collar black, with a small blue dot on each
side ; a blue-green dot on each shoulder ; pterygodes with a large
blue-green spot; thorax black brown with two blue-green dots in
front ; abdomen dark brown ; wings hyaline-white, veins black, dis-