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spots, and a more distinct spot at end of tlie cell : hindwing with some black- 



specklctl spots below the apex. Body black-speckled ; collar, front of head, and 



palpi ochreous-brown ; palpi and legs black-speckled. 



Expanse If inch. 



Genus ZOMIA. 



Omha* Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. II. xxiv. p. 1084 (1862). 

 Zoinia, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 18G7, p. GoO. 



Forewing long, narrow ; costa arched at the base, apex acute, exterior margin 



convexly-angular in the middle ; cell more than half the length ; first subcostal at 



one-fifth, bifid near its base, joined to costal near its end by a short recurrent spur, 



third approximate, trifid, sixth from end of cell ; discocellular outwardly-obhque, 



radial from the middle ; the middle median very close to end, lower at one-third : 



hindwiug rather long, narrow, apex very convex, anal angle prominent ; cell fully 



half the length ; subcostal much arched at the base, first subcostal near end of cell; 



discocellular very oblique, bent above the middle ; no radial ; middle median near 



end, lower at two-fifths. Body rather stout ; palpi long, curved upward to near 



vertex, narrow, squamous, third joint short, conical; antenna in male broadly 



bipectinated to near tip, the branches thick and ciliated, less bipectinated in female ; 



legs squamous, hind tibiie with two pairs of long spurs. 



Ti/2)c, Z. incitata. 



ZOMIA SEEPENTINARIA. 



Timandra serpentinaria. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. sxxv. p. 1634 (1866). 



Male. Forewing pale olivescent purplish-red; very sparsely speckled with short 

 slender black strigre ; crossed by a sap-green antemedial and an irregular outwardly- 

 recurved postmedial band, both being dilated at the costal end ; the outer band 

 black-speckled on its lower outer edge and bordered by a subapical oblique black- 

 speckled streak : hindwing ochreous-red, with the anal border ohvescent purphsh-red 

 and marked with black strigaj and a short sap-green anal streak. Body purplish- 

 red ; middle of thorax and front of tegulce sap-green ; tibiiB and tarsi also 

 sap-green. 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



^ " Genus PRIONIA. 



Prionia, Hiibner, Zutrage, iv. p. 40 (1832); Guenee, Phal. i. p. 143 (1857). , 

 Osicerda, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxiv. p. 1083 (1S62). 

 Ceksdera, Walker, id. xxvi. p. 1749 (1862). 

 Isnisca, Walker, id. xxvi. p. 1765 (1862). 

 Forewing rather long; costa arched at the base, apex pointed, exterior margin 

 anoular in the middle; cell three-fifths the length; first subcostal about one-fifth, 



* Used by Walker in 1860 for a genus of Lepidoptera. 



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