io6 Lloyd's natural history. 



branches into four unequal parts; a semi-circular spot of the 

 same colour within the end of the cell, and another oval 

 spot near apex ; secondaries with the basal half irregularly 

 testaceous hyaline ; an oval, bifid, disco-submarginal spot of 

 the same colour, cut by the third median nervure; below 

 nearly as above." {Butler) 



The present species is named in remembrance of its captor, 

 to whose exertions, and to those of his wife, entomologists 

 owed the first important collections of insects formed in 

 Angola on the South-west coast of Africa, and Delagoa 

 Bay in the South-east. 



Several other species of Thyretes are found in various parts 

 of Africa. 



SUB-FAMILY V. PHAUDIN^. 



In this Sub-family the wings are rather long and narrow, the 

 antennae are pectinated in the males, and the abdomen is 

 strongly tufted ; the proboscis is obsolete. The cell is divided 

 by a nervure. Only a few Indian and African species are re- 

 ferred to this Sub-family. The type of the genus is Phauda 

 flammans (Walker), a North Indian species measuring about 

 an inch and a half across the wings. The head, body, and 

 fore-wings, except at the tip, are bright red ; the hind-wings 

 are blackish, but slightly hyaline, and the costa is red ; and 

 the abdomen is tufted with red and black. 



SUB-FAMILY VI. PYROMORPHIN^. 



This is a small group of American Moths of a smoky-brown 

 colour, sometimes with the thorax, or more of less of the base of 

 the wings, reddish or yellow. The antennae are pectinated, and 

 the abdomen is long, slender, and sometimes tufted at the end. 

 The wings are rather long, and broad or narrow, and rounded 



