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in the males, whieh are also furnished with a sniall anal tuft. 

 It includes a great number of genera and species, inhabiting 

 the warmer parts of the Old World. They only touch the 

 PaLxarctic Region in North China, Japan, and Amurland, 

 unless Dysauxes, which we have included in the Zygcc?iifice, 

 should be regarded as belonging to this Sub-family. Many of 

 the Thyretince have a strong resemblance to Zygcefia pJiegea 

 and its allies, and were formerly included in the same genus. 

 The African species here figured belongs to one of the 

 more distinct genera. 



GENUS THYRETES. 



ThyreteSj Boisduval, in Delegorgue, Voy. Afr. Austr. ii. p. 596 

 (1847); Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. viii. p. 74 



(1S56). 



Body very pubescent, legs and abdomen long. Wings long 

 and narrow, the fore-wings much longer than the hind-wings, 

 with the costa straight, the tips rounded, and the hind-margin 

 very ol)li(]ue. In the male the antennae are strongly pecti- 

 nated. 



THYRETES MONTEIROI. 

 [Pla/e LXXXl. Fig. 3.) 

 Thyretes monteirot, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. Zoo), xii. p. 

 359, no. 4 (1876). 



This delicate little species, which comes from Ambri/ in 

 Angola, measures about \]..{ inch, or a little less, across the 

 wings. 



"Body ochre-yellow; anteniuv, centre of dorsum, and edges 

 of abdominal segments black-brown ; a line down ea( h side 

 of the abdomen of the .same colour; wings dark brown; 

 a testaceous hyaline band from centre of inner margin round 

 lower edge of cell to lower radial ncrvure, cut l)y the median 



