FOCILLIDJE. 193 



ZETHES USURPATALIS (Plate 172, Fig. 11). 

 Egnasia usurpataiis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. p. 219 (1858), ?. 



Pale purplish-ferruginous, exterior borders brightest coloured ; sparsely speckled 

 with minute black scales : forewing with a basal olive-green band, a subbasal trans- 

 verse waved olivaceous line, an indistinct brown medial undulated line, a discal pale 

 centred blackish duplex outwardly-curved line, a submarginal sinuous blackish- 

 speckled line ending on the costa in a dilated olivaceous streak ; an intermarginal row 

 of black dots ; a black-speckled punctiform spot in middle of the cell : hindwing with 

 a blackish-speckled lunular streak at end of the cell, a transverse discal pale-centred 

 blackish duplex line, a submarginal sinuous line ending in a large subanal spot; 

 an intermarginal row of dots. Thorax ferruginous ; collar and vertex olive-green ; 

 apex of palpi with a blackish band ; fore and middle tarsi with blackish bands. 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



ZETHES SOLUTA. 



Thermesia soluta, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 1061 (1865). 



" Male. Ferruginous, testaceous beneath. Wings testaceous, slightly speckled 

 with black, partly shaded with brown ; exterior and submarginal lines pale, denticu- 

 lated, partly bordered with black; submarginal points black; marginal line pale. 

 Forewiuo-s with the interior line pale, oblique, abruptly reti^acted in front ; middle 

 line blackish, undulating, diifuse ; submarginal line hardly denticulated, but forming 

 a distinct angle ; exterior border forming a slight angle to which a broad brownish 

 streak proceeds from the exterior line ; a large dark brown triangular costal subapical 

 spot containing three whitish costal points. 



" Expanse 14 lines." 



Described by Mr. Walker from specimens in the collection of Mr. E. L. 

 Layard. 



ZETHES CRISTIFERA. 



Ephyrodes cristifera, Walker, Catal. Lop. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 1071 (1165), ? . 

 Catada epops, Felder and Eogenh. Nov. Voy. Lep. iv. pi. 120, fig. 42 (1874), ^ . 



Lilacine ochreous-grey : forewing very sparsely speckled with minute purple- 

 brown scales ; crossed by, apparently six, inwardly-oblique very indistinct pale brown 

 lilacine-bordered waved fascia, the second inner one ending in a costal cluster of 

 purple-brown scales ; extending upward from the posterior angle is a duplex row of 

 prominent purple-brown-speckled linear spots ; a similar coloured spot also below the 

 apex; and a marginal denticulated line; a purplish-brown speckled spot also in 

 middle of the cell, and a similar ill-defined reniform mark : hindwing ochreous-grey, 

 with a transverse discal indistinct slender brown fascia, and a broader submarginal 

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