MEGANACLIA. — THyRETES. 



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veins 2 and 7. Hind wing more hyaline, with brownish lunula 

 between bases of veins 2 and 3, and brownish terminal band broad 



Fig. 55. — Meganaclia sippia , J. 



and obsolescent towards costa, narrowing to tornus, its inner edge 

 waved and defining a very obscure postmedial series of spots. 



S rather darker, with the spots smaller. 



Hob. Old Calabar, 1 $ (Eutherford) ; Camekoons ; Niger. 

 Exp. 60 millim. 



Genus THYRETES. 



Type. 



Thyretcs, Boisd. Voy. Delegorgue, ii. p. 596 (1847) hippotes. 



Proboscis absent ; palpi minute, bairy, downturned ; antennae bipectinate in 

 male, serrate in female ; legs fringed with hair ; mid and hind tibi;e with 

 minute terminal pairs of spurs ; abdomen with two small dorsal tufts at base. 

 Fore wing long and narrow, the costa arched towards apex which is somewhat 

 produced «nd acute ; veins 3, 4, 5 well separated at origin ; from upper angle ; 

 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 stalked. Hind wing with vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 5 from 

 well above angle or middle of discocellulars ; 7 absent. 



Sect. I. Build stout ; frons with large tuft of hair ; femora and tibia; fringed 

 with long hair. 



A. Wings with the markings hyaline hippotes. 



B. Wings with the markings yellow inonianu. 



259. Thyretes hippotes 



am. Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 280. A 

 Head and tegulse white ; a large frontal tuft brown below ; 



Sphinx hippotes, Cram. Pap. Exot, iii. pi. 280. A (1780); Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 103. 



Fig. 56. — Thyretes hippotes, (^ . 



branches of antennae blackish, the basal joint yellow ; thorax white, 

 with brown dorsal stripe, the patagia fringed with brown ; abdomen 

 white, with dorsal and lateral series of brown diamond-shaped marks, 



