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PSYCHE. 



[January 1S93. 



and the apical half of both primaries and 

 secondaries fuscous. 



5 . Marked exactly as the male, but larger. 



Expanse of wings, $ 28-32 mm. ; $ 40 

 mm. 



A closely allied, if not identical, species is 

 in the British Museum, unnamed, from 

 Angola. 



4. A. leucolena, sp. nov. $ . Antennae 

 fuscous at extremity, fulvous at base. Body 

 fulvous. The wings are semi-translucent, 

 white, with the primaries broadly black upon 

 the apical third, and the secondaries almost 

 imperceptibly touched with the same color at 

 the extremities of the nervules. 



5 . Marked as the male, but larger. 

 Expanse of wings, $ 30-35 mm; ^ 35 mm. 



ZYGAENIDAE. 



Adscita, Retz. 



5. A. chloauges, sp. nov. <J. Antennae 

 long, terete, enlarged before the extremity, 

 black. The front is bronze red. The rest of 

 the body and the legs are black glossed with 

 scales of metallic green. The anterior wings 

 upon the upper side are very dark brown or 

 black, and are glossed with patches of metal- 

 lic green scales as follows : a narrow linear 

 patch above the cell upon the costa, a couple 

 of broad roundish patches beyond the cell 

 near the apex, and a somewhat interrupted 

 linear streak below the cell above the sub- 

 median nervule. The secondaries, which 

 are rounded at the outer and inner angles, 

 and have the outer margin somewhat deeply 

 excavated near the extremity of the first 

 median nervule are translucent, hyaline, 

 except upon the costa and outer margin, 

 which are heavily bordered with black, except 

 at the end of the second median nervule, 

 where the border is comparatively narrow. 

 Expanse. 24 mm. 



I refer this species with much doubt to 

 the genus Adscita, Retz., (Procris, Auct.- 

 Ino, Auct.). It may constitute, as Mr. Butler 



has suggested to me, the type of a new genus, 

 but until I have sufficient material to make 

 dissections, and also to characterize the 

 female sex, I do not feel justified in erecting 

 a genus for the reception of this single 

 species. 



Pollaxisus, Walk. 



6. P. obscurissimus, sp. nov. $. Super- 

 ficially scarcely distinguishable from P. cya- 

 nota, Meyr. from Sydney, N. S. Wales. 

 The antennae are tipped with white upon the 

 under side. The palpi, the tibiae, and the 

 under side of the abdomen are yellowish 

 white. The remainder of the body and the 

 wings, both above and below, are smoky 

 brown. 



$ . Differs from the male merely in want- 

 ing the strong pectinations of the antennae, 

 and in having less white upon the lower 

 surface of the abdomen. Expanse, 14-15 mm. 



Syntomis, Ochs. 



7. 5". Ogovensis* sp. nov. £. Near .S. 

 Natalii, Boisd., from which it differs in 

 having no translucent spot near the base of 

 the primaries, and the transparent spot at 

 the base of the secondaries is situated upon 

 the inner margin of the wing, and not upon 

 the cell as in 5. Natalii. There is further no 

 red band upon the abdomen as in Boisduval's 

 species, and it is also slightly smaller in 6ize. 

 The color of the body and wings is black 

 glossed with shining green. The antennae 

 are tipped with white. There are five trans- 

 lucent spots upon the primaries; a round one 

 at the end of the cell, another round one near 

 the middle of the inner margin, and three 

 forming a curved subapical series, the upper- 

 most spot in which is round, and the two 

 lower ones are oblong and divergent. 

 There are two spots on the secondaries, a 

 round one beyond the end of the cell near 

 the outer margin, and a semi-lunar spot upon 

 the inner margin at the base. 



$ . The female is marked as the male. 

 Expanse, 28 mm. 



