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Dr. A. Jefferis Turner's Observations on 



Had these two veins anastomosed they would have formed 

 a new cell, which might be called a secondary areole. 

 The importance of this point will become evident later. 

 Zygaenidae. — In Cyclosia, as in all the genera of this 



Fig. 30. — Cyclosia panthona, Cram. 



family that I have examined or seen figured, the areole 

 has disappeared as in Synemon. There is a long-branched 

 media in the fore-wing, and vein 11 runs into 12, but in 



the hind-wing the media is 

 single as in Chalcosia. Sir 

 George Hampson figures 

 Chelura with a branched 

 media in the hind-wing in 

 his " Moths of India," but 

 I found it to be unbranched 

 in all the examples of this 

 genus examined. I con- 

 jecture that Sir George 

 Hampson may have figured 

 an abnormal specimen. 

 Chalcosia has vein 11 free, 

 ) and the median cell is very 

 small in the fore-wings. In 

 the hind-wings the media is 

 unbranched, and there is 

 a short oblique vein con- 

 necting the cell with 8. 

 Comparing this with the 



Fig. 37. — Chalcosia ajfinis, Guer, 



fore-wing of Cyclosia, we can hardly doubt that this 

 connection represents one of the missing branches of the 

 radial in the hind-wing, probably the first radial. The 

 same vein is present in Zygaena, which has the media 

 unbranched in both wings, the median cell having been 



