A. R. Grote's Notes on the Zytjsenidat of Cuba. 29" 



NOTES ON THE ZYGJENIDJE OF CUBA. 



BY AUG. R. GROTE. 

 Curator of Entomology, Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. 



PART II.— With a Supplement. 



ISANTHRENE, Hubner. 

 Isanthrene chalciope. 



Isanthrcne chalciope, Hubner, Zutr. 3rd Hund. p. 20, No. 235, figs. 469 — 470. 



(1825.) 

 Glaucopis {Isanthrene) chalciope, Walker, C. B. M. Part I, p. 155. (1854.) 

 Glaucopis chalciope, Lucas. Hist. Nat. Cub. p. 663. (1S57.) 

 Glaucopis chalciope, Herrich-SehacHer, Corr. Bl. Reg. No. 8, p. 114. (August, 

 1866.) 

 Two specimens. 



Habitat.— Cuba, (Poey.) Coil Ent. Soc. Phil. 

 Number 136, Poey's MS. Catalogue. 



HIPPOLA, Walker. 

 •• Hippola syntomoides." 



Glaucojns syntomoides, Boisd. Sp. Gen. Lep. Vol. I, PI. 16, f. 4. (1836.) 

 Euchromla {Hippola) syntomoides, Walk., C. B. M. Lep. Ft. 1, p. 227. (1854.) 

 Glaucopis syntomoides, Lucas, Hist. Nat. Cub. p. 659. (1857.) 

 Glaucopis syntomoides, Herricb-Scbaeffer, Corr. Bl. No 8, p. 114. (August. 

 1866.) 



The specimens do not agree well with Boisduval's figure, and the 

 species has been nowhere described to my knowledge. Since Prof. 

 Poey in his MS. Catalogue and Dr. Herrich-Schaeffer in the Corr. 

 Blatt, both give the specific determination without doubt or remarks, 

 I give it, provisionally, under the generic name proposed, by Mr. "Walker 

 in the British Museum Lists, for a number of dull cyaneous, albo-ma- 

 culate Glaucopidians, which, though perhaps separable into distinct 

 genera, may remain temporarily united by their coloration. 



The specimens ( £ and 9 ) sent by Prof. Poey, differ from Boisdu- 

 val's figure of "Glaucopis syntomoides,'' which apparently represents 

 a male, as follows : — The wings are narrower and distinctly dotted with 

 white at base. There is no white dot on the median vein at the mid- 

 dle of the wing as represented by Boisduval's figure. The white ma- 

 culations are not so broad and prominent in the Cuban specimens and 

 differ in slight details. In Boisduval's figure, the white at the base of 

 the abdomen is carried entirely and evenly across as a broad band, 

 whereas in the Cuban specimens, the white color is limited to the later- 

 al glandular pouches, there being but a narrow line of white scales 



PROCEEDINGS ENT. S0C. IMIIL.U). JANUARY, 1867. 



