NATURAL HISTORY. Ixxii. 



Fam.— PHAL.ENID^. 



Gen.— PSYCHOPHORA. (Khhj/.) 



Antenna rather short and setaceous, bipectinated in the male, simple in the female; 

 the rays very short at the base, and vanishing towards the apex ; each joint producing 

 two, which are clavate and pubescent (fig. 7 a) ; maxillce long and spiral ; palpi por- 

 rected horizontally, short and very hairy, projecting a little beyond the head ; head and 

 eyes rather small ; thorax subglobose and hairy ; abdomen short subcylindric, tufted at 

 the apex in the male with a pair of horney incurved spoon-shaped forceps ; wings, 

 superior subtrigonate, the apex a little angulated in the female ; legs, posterior a little 

 the longest ; tibiae, anterior short, with an internal spine, the others longer, with a 

 pair of spurs at the apex, the posterior with a pair also below the middle; claws 

 simple and distinct. 



19. Sahini. (Kirby.) Cinereous, superior wings with an obscure dark patch at the 

 base, and a slightly angulated fascia across the middle narrowed at the interior 

 margin, the edges sinuated, with a dot on the disc; inferior wings paler, with two 

 obscure transverse hnes ; underside whitish-cinereous, with a fuscous spot on the 

 costa ; the cilia spotted fuscous. 



Expansion from one inch to one inch and two lines. 



Plate A, fig. 12, male ; fig. 7, the head in profile. 



Mr. Kirby's description being incomplete, from his want of perfect specimens, I 

 have endeavoured to supply the deficiency by giving the generic characters. When I 

 published the genus VsoAos {Treit.*), I thought, from the observations of Mr. Kirby, that 

 P. trepidaria might be allied to his genus Psycophora, if not synonymous, but I am 

 now satisfied that it is considerably removed from it. It bears considerable resem- 

 blance to the genus Tliera {Sle), but is most probably allied to Zerynthia.f 



Gen. 915.— OPORABIA. {Ste?) 



20. Piinctipes. Cinereous, superior wings with an oblique fascia, and several pale 

 waved strigas ; legs spotted with white. 



• Curtis's Brit. Ent.— vol. i,\., pi. 424. f lb.— vol. vii., pi. 296. 



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