140 



SYNTOMIDJ?. 



*264. Thyrogonia efulensis. 



Syntomis efulensis, Holland, Ent. News Philad. 1898, p. 12. 



5 . Bluish black ; abdomen with silvery blue lateral patches 

 except towards extremity. Fore wing with quadrate hyaline spot 



in end of cell ; slight whitish 

 streaks above and below vein 6 

 and whitish patches in the 

 interspaces between vein 5 and 

 inner margin, towards which 

 they increase in length, below 

 Y\g. bS.— Thyrogonia efulensis, 2 . \- "^ein 1 extending nearly to 



base. Hind wing with hyaline 

 patches below the cell and between veins 2 and 4. 



Hah. AV. Africa, Bule Country (Good), type t $ in Coll. Holland. 

 E.vj). 36 millim. 



Genus A PISA. 



Type. 



Apisa, Wlk. iv. 916 (1855) canescens. 



Proboscis absent or minute ; palpi porrect, extending about the length of 

 head and clothed with hair; antennae bipectinate with long branches, shorter in 

 female ; head, thorax, and abdomen more or less clothed with rough hair ; mid 

 and bind tibire with minute terminal pairs of spurs. Fore wing short, the 

 termen very long ; rein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; the 

 discocellulars acutely angled; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 stalked. 

 Hind wing small ; veins 3 and 5 separate at origin ; 4 absent ; 7 absent ; a 

 short veinlet from angle of discocellulars. 



A. Fore wing dark brown, with hyaline spots. 



a. Abdomen with the ventral surface orange connexa. 



b. Abdomen with the ventral surface white leucogastra. 



c. Abdomen witli the ventral surface pink abdominalis. 



d. Abdomen with the ventral surface dark. 



a^. Abdomen witli subdorsal white spots chrysopyga. 



b^. Abdomen without spots. 



a^. Fore wing with the spots whitish Icerri, 



b"^. Fore wing with the antemedial spots yellow, the 



postmedial liyaline eleta. 



c\ Abdomen with dorsal and lateral orange spots tristigma. 



B. Fore wing pale brown, with triangular yellow antemedial 



patch monotica. 



C. Fore wing uniform greyish canescens. 



D. Wings white ; fore wing with the apical half fuscous ; head 



and thorax orange melalcuca. 



E. Wings hyaline crenophylax. 



265. Apisa connexa. 



Euchromia connexa, Wlk. i. 246 (1854) ; Butl. 111. Het. i. p. 18, pi. 8. f. 1 ■ 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 110. 



2 . Black with a purple tinge ; frons, vertex of head, metathorax, 

 and sides of thorax with brilliant blue patches ; teguloe, patagia, 



