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

LEPlDOPTERA OF THE FAMILY ZYQdNIUIE. 397
&nus DESMLDOCNEYIS, Moeschler.
1. DESMIDOCNEMIS PRITTWITZI, Moeschkr, Stett. ent. Zeit. p. 346
(1872).
Cnyenne.
2. D.? PLATY LEUCA=GlaUcopis (Herea) platyleuca, Walker, Lep. Hel.
i. p. 198.
Venezuela (Dyson). Type, B.M.
I believe that thia is a Derrntidocnemia, but cannot feel certain
without seeing the type of that genus.
Genus HYDA, Walker (part.).
1. IIYDA XANTIIORHINA = Eurnta xanthorhinn, Herr.-Sch. AWS.
Schmett. f. 226.
Glaucopis (Hyda) basilutea, Walker, Lep. Het. i. p. 182.
Snntarern (Bates), Pernambuco (J. P. G. Smith), Snnta Martha (BOW
chard), Pncho, New Granada (Janson).
B.M.
Section c.
Abdomen with-a terminal and sometimes with lateral tufts of
hair-scales.
Genus METIIFSIA, n. gen.
Gcneral appearance of Thrinacia, neuration of primaries as in
Cosmosoma ; secondaries small, elongated, and parchment-like,
capable of being entirely concealed behind the inner marginal
border of primaries, cell reaching to middle of wing, diuco-
cellular slightly receding from the subcostal to the median
uervure, upper brnuch of nubcostal fork running to the cos-
tal margin ; head rather small ; antenna well pectinated ; ab-
doirien with a terminal tuft. Type N. notabilia, Walker.
1. METHYSIA NoTABrLIs=Glaacopis (Pseudomya) notabilia, Walker,
Lep. Het. i. p. 14.1.
Park (Bates). Type, B.M.
Genus DIXOPHLEBIA, n. gen. P1. XXVIII. fig. 8.
Evidently allied to the preceding genus, but shorter and broader
in the wing ; the wings with smaller transparent are= ; Recon-
aries with discoidal cell very short, discocellulars forming hge-
ther a strongly anqulatod line, upper rather longer than lower ;
a well-defined radial nervure continued as a recurrent ner-