Notes on the Lepidoptera of the Family Zygnid, with ... - Wallace Online
Notes on the Lepidoptera of the Family Zygnid, with ... - Wallace Online
Notes on the Lepidoptera of the Family Zygnid, with ... - Wallace Online
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394 MR. A. 0. BUTLER OX THE<br />
and D. correbioides, but differing froin dl tlie species in <strong>the</strong> pcnrly<br />
spots <strong>on</strong> <strong>the</strong> body.<br />
19. D. COHREEIOIDES, Felder, Keise ckr Nov. Lep. iv. tab. cii. fig. 20.<br />
Pacho, New Granada (Jans<strong>on</strong>). B.M.<br />
20. D. CLIMACINA, n. sp.<br />
Head ornngc; antennae black, tipped <strong>with</strong> white ; collar orange, <strong>with</strong> a<br />
slender black edge ; pterygotlcs orange, edged <strong>with</strong> black ; tliorax<br />
hlack-brown, <strong>with</strong> a broad, central, l<strong>on</strong>gitudinal, orange streak, two<br />
dots in fr<strong>on</strong>t, and two spots behind <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> same colour; first four<br />
segments <strong>of</strong> abdomen golden yellow, <strong>the</strong> last three dark metallic blue ;<br />
a well-defined, central, l<strong>on</strong>gitudinal, stripe, a narrower, irregular,<br />
lateral line, and transverse bars <strong>on</strong> <strong>the</strong> anterior margins <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> seg-<br />
ments all black, <strong>the</strong> first two or three shining (when die head faces<br />
<strong>the</strong> light) <strong>with</strong> a br<strong>on</strong>zy-opaline lustre ; wings testaceous hyaline ;<br />
primaries <strong>with</strong> <strong>the</strong> base <strong>of</strong> costa black, <strong>with</strong> a white spot, interno-basal<br />
area orange, reins <strong>of</strong> bad area black, apical two fifths black enclo-<br />
sing a large subquadrate quinquefid hyaline spot; sec<strong>on</strong>daries <strong>with</strong><br />
abdominal and basicostal areas golden yellow, a triangnlar spot at<br />
end <strong>of</strong> cell and <strong>the</strong> apical half <strong>of</strong> costa black, outer margin black,<br />
broadest at apex and anal angle ; body below dark brown ; pnlpi<br />
orange, black above and at <strong>the</strong> tips ; tibiae, proximal ends <strong>of</strong> femora,<br />
and distal extremities <strong>of</strong> tarsi yellowish orange; venter <strong>with</strong> a<br />
central transverse yellow belt : wings below as above : expanse 33<br />
millims.<br />
Espiritu Santo (Higggins). Type, B.M.<br />
Somewhat iutermcdiatc between L. tenthredoides and D.<br />
torrida.<br />
21. D. TORRIDA<br />
p. 161.<br />
=GlaucOpis (Pclecilosoma) torrida, Walker, Lep. Het. i.<br />
Tapajos (Bates). Type, B.M.<br />
22. D. DATESII, n. sp.<br />
Alliecl to D. bromus; but <strong>the</strong> primaries <strong>with</strong> <strong>the</strong> apical fourth black :<br />
expanse <strong>of</strong> wings 30 millims.<br />
St. Paulo and Park (Bates). Type, B.M.<br />
23. D. BROMUS=Sphinx bromus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. id. 35.<br />
f. G.<br />
Surinam.<br />
Cmnrer’s figure <strong>of</strong> this specie8 is ra<strong>the</strong>r rough, and represents<br />
<strong>the</strong> wiiigs as very loug and narrow, more 80 even thaii in Spheco-<br />
80l11 fl .
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