BY A. SIDNEY OLLIFF, F.E.S. 469 



Zelotypia Stacyi var. sinuosa. 



(J Antennae reddish brovvn. Head, front of thorax, and 

 abdomen salmon red ; the thorax with two broad streaks of 

 white scales, one on each side, which meet behind ; abdomen with 

 the last two segments greenish black. Forewing dark fawn 

 colour, the basal half and the apical extremity silvery white, the 

 former dusted with fawn colour, a large ocellus very indistinctly 

 encircled with brown at the end of the discoidal cell, beyond this 

 a moderately broad and very clearly defined silvery white fascia 

 obliquely crosses the entire width of the wing ; within this fascia, 

 between veins 1-5, and near the inner mai'gin, the ground colour is 

 more pronounced ; the space between thefascia and the hind-margin, 

 which is also deeper in colour, occupied with five or six series of 

 iri'egular bar-shaped markings ; these markings are at right angles 

 to the veins within which they are contained ; costa marked with 

 three or four rather obscure patches of white. Hindwing salmon 

 red, darker externally. All the wings crumpled at the extremities. 

 Expanse of wings 166 mm. (1) ; length of body 64 mm. 



Although I have examined a considerable number of Zelotypise 

 this is the only one I have seen answering to the above description. 

 The points in which it differs from the typical Z. Stacyi are at 

 once perceptible and may be summarized as follows : — The ocellus 

 without the white margin and only obscurely surrounded with 

 bi'own, the oblique fascia much more pronounced with the edges 

 clearly defined, the presence of peculiar bar-like markings near 

 the hind-margin (very unlike the thin, wavy lines on the typical 

 form), and the dull fawn coloured, obscurely marked costal margin, 

 not to mention the deeper ground colour of the whole of the 

 external half of the wing. 



(1) The largest female Z. Stacyi I have seen Is fully ten inches across the 

 wings, measured according to the approved method, i.e. from the tip of the 

 forewing to the middle of the thorax doubled. 



