i82 Lloyd's natural history. 



/'. Palpi securiform, or recurved above the front. Abdomen 

 nearly smooth Amphigoni\J\dcE. 



B. — Wings entire, or simply dentated, or pointed at the tip. 



Ther7nesi\_i\dcB. 



FAMILY FOCILLID^. 

 GENUS ZETHES. 

 Zct/ies, Rambur, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ii. p. 29 (1833) ; 

 Guenee, Spec. G^n. Lepid. Noct. iii. p. 329 (1852); 

 Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xv. p. 1522 (1858). 

 This genus is widely distributed, though not numerous in 

 species. The wings are rather short and broad. 



ZETHES INSULARIS. 

 (Plate CXL.y Fig. 4.) 

 Zethes insularis, Rambur, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ii. p. 29, 

 pi. 2, fig. I (1833) ; Duponchel, Lepid. France, Suppl. iii. 

 P- 553) P^- 47 (1836); Guenee, Spec. Gen. Lepid. Noct. 

 iii. p. 330 (1852); Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, 

 P- 273. Pl- 57, fig- I (1881). 

 Nodua nattyi, Freyer, Neuere Beitr. Schmett. iii. p. 43, Taf. 

 222, fig. 2 (1837). 

 This Moth is a native of Corsica, Greece, Dalmatia, and Asia 

 Minor. It expands about an inch and a quarter. 



The fore-wings are brown, dusted with grey, as far as the 

 second line. The half-line is brown, bordered outside with 

 whitish, but is short, and sometimes obsolete. The first trans- 

 verse line is brown and broad, especially on the costa, and 

 bordered with white on both sides ; it runs irregularly to the 

 costa. The second line is white, forming two curves outwards, 

 but converges obliquely towards the first line on the inner 

 margin ; the marginal area and a long patch running outwards 



