120 



PSYCHE. 



[June-Sept. 1S94. 



$ . The female does not dift'er from the 

 male save in the absence of the pectinations 

 at the base of the antennae. Expanse, $, 

 44 mm. ; ? , 4^ \n\x\. 



There is an allied form from Madagascar 

 in the British Museum located in the 

 genus Zethes, wliich was unnamed when I 

 saw it some eighteen months ago. 



lOi. B. hieroglyplika, sp. nov. $. The 

 antennae are doubly pectinate for one-half 

 their length from tlieir insertion; beyond 

 this simple. The margins of both wings 

 from the inner angles to the extremity of 

 vein four are scalloped as in the two preceding 

 species. The palpi and front, as well as the 

 upper side of the thorax and abdomen, are 

 brown. The pectus and lower side of the 

 thorax and abdomen are likewise brown as 

 are the legs, which, however, have the tarsi 

 and their inner margins white. The tarsi 

 are lightly ringed with dark brown, as are 

 also the median and terminal spurs, which 

 are white. The basal area of the primaries 

 is dark brown, defined outwardly by a pale 

 fine line, which is abruptly retracted just 

 below the costa. Just below the sharply 

 acute angle which this line makes is a min- 

 ute black dot on the cell, followed by an 

 obscure transverse median line, running 

 from the costa to the inner margin, succeeded 

 by an incomplete and irregular dark limbal 

 line, which runs from the inner margin 

 toward the costa, terminating near tlie 

 origin of vein four. A blackish shade runs 

 from the middle of the costa outwardly 

 terminating near the extremity of vein four. 

 There is a fine transverse limbal line, which 

 runs from the inner margin toward the 

 costa as far as vein three, where it bifurcates, 

 sending a branch toward the middle of the 

 costa and another toward the apex. This 

 line is silvery white, and between its branches 

 includes a dark spot, which lies on the lower 

 side of the dark longitudinal shade, \vhich 

 has been already described. On the costa 

 about two-thirds of the distance from the 



base is a subtriangular white spot defined 

 inwardly by brown. There is a confused 

 and very irregular series of submarginal 

 silvery white lines and markings, which are 

 translucent, and which maybe better recog- 

 nized by the figure in the plate than by any 

 description. The secondaries are fuscous 

 with the discal area marked ^vith blackish 

 adorned with a translucent sub-hastate spot 

 near the end of the cell, followed toward the 

 inner margin by a smaller translucent spot. 

 The inner margin near the anal angle is 

 marked by fine chalky white lines and there 

 is a profusion of confused paler lines on the 

 inner margin. The under side is pale fawn, 

 shading on the inner margin of the second- 

 aries into whitish and with the outer margin 

 of the primaries near the extremity of the 

 median nervules clouded with dark brown. 

 The subapical white spot on the primaries 

 reappears conspicuously on the under side. 

 The other markings are obscurely indicated. 

 % . The female is like the male, differing 

 only in the structure of the antennae, which 

 are simple. Expanse, ^ and J, 40 mm. 

 Habitat Kangwe and Benita. 



102. £. liiua/a, sp. nov. $ . Palpi and 

 front brown; vertex cinereous, collar brown, 

 patagia brown, tipped with cinereous. Meta- 

 thorax clothed with grayish hair. Upper 

 side of abdomen pale brown. Lower side 

 of thorax and abdomen pale gray, darker at 

 the anal extremity. Legs concolorous, an- 

 terior pair margined in front with dark 

 brown. Tlie primaries on the upper side are 

 obscure brown with the costa and the outer 

 margin hoary. On the outer margin below 

 the apex is a dark brown semi-circular spot. 

 At the end of the cell is a large translucent 

 lunate spot. The wings are crossed by 

 irregularly curved and dentate sub-basal, 

 median, and geminate limbal lines, which 

 coalesce with a longitudinal ray of brown, 

 running below the cell and along vein two, 

 terminating on the outermost of the gemi- 

 nate limbal lines. A straight submarginal 



