38 NEW GENUiS OF THE HEPIALID.E, 



Male Legs, posterior pair, slender, much injured. 



The wing veins are similar in structure to those of the genus 

 Hepialus. 



Zelotypia Stacyi. 



^^«^e length of wings 76 lines; of body 32 (?) lines'. 



Siiperior wings dark rich fawn-colour ; on the centre 

 of each, a large dull green-coloured ocellus, encii^cled 

 by a dark brown line, edged with white outwardly, 

 and bearing within it a sub-diaphanous pearly spot. 

 A broad, irregular, oblique transverse band of silver, 

 crosses the wing slightly beyond the ocellus ; the 

 whole space between this and the exterior margin is 

 occupied by numerous wavy, very fine, distinct, light- 

 coloured lines, disposed labyrinthically over the 

 ground-colour ; the inner portion of the wing is 

 thickly sprinkled over with silver, assuming towards 

 the interior angle a series of ovoidal figures. The 

 costa is very broad and powerful, amply barred 

 transversely with irregular angular bands of silvery- 

 white. 



Inferior wings pale bright salmon-colour, dai'ker 

 towards the tips, where they become crumpled. 



Female length of wings 117 lines ; of body 47 (?) lines. 



Superior wings pale salmon-colour ; the centre of each 

 is occupied by a large, bright, ochreous ocellus, 

 girded by rings of brown and white, and carrying 

 within it a largish sub -diaphanous spot of a pearly 

 hue ; a little to the outward of this latter spot, and 

 nearly in the centre of the ocellus, a black lunule- 

 shaped marking stretches across ; the discal areolet 

 is thickly powdered over with white ; the broad space 

 beyond and below the ocellus, from the tip of the 

 wing to its interior base is fully occupied with 

 numerous chaste wavy lines of reddish-brown, which 



' 12 lines to the English inch. 



