ZATREPHES. AXTAXIA. 



475 



crimson above ; Irons rufous ; back of head, tegulaj, patagia, and 

 vertex of thorax with crimson lines ; fore legs mostly crimson ; 

 abdomen yellow, tinged with crimson above, and with whitish 



dorsal spot at base. Fore wing 

 golden yellow, with a silvery 

 gloss reticuloted with crimson 

 lines ; a slight brown mark on 

 inner margin near base ; a brown 

 line from costa before middle to 

 tornus ; a large triangular hya- 

 line patch with brown points on 

 the veins, beyond the brown 

 line, with its base on subcostals and apex just above vein 2 ; some 

 dentate brown subterminal marks. Hind wing pale crimson, 

 becoming semihyaline white towards costa. 



Hah. Amazons, E. Jutahi (Trail), 1 d type. Ea^p. 30 millim. 



Fig. 260.- Zatrcphes paradisea, cS . 



*1051. Zatrephes nitida. 



Noctua nitida, StoU, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 274. F (1780) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 196. 



5 . Head, thorax, and fore wing orange, irrorated with crimson ; 

 thorax with fuscous stripes : legs pink ; abdomen crimson. Fore 

 wing with slight oblique dark antemedial line not reaching costa ; 

 two median lines which cross above vein 1, the inner from below 

 costa, the oiiter from a large fuscous patch beyond the cell between 

 veins 3 and 7, and emitting a wedge-shaped mark towards tornus ; 

 an indistinct dentate subterminal line. Hind wing crimson, the 

 cilia white. 



Hah. Surinam. Eoop. 40 millim. This species is unknown 

 to me. 



Genus ANTAXIA, nov. 



Type, A. pyrgion. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned to vertex of Iiead, thickly scaled, 

 and the 3rd joint minute; tibife with the spurs moderate; head, thorax, and 

 abdomen clothed with rough hair. Fore wing with vein .3 from well before 

 angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with the cell long ; vein 2 from long before angle of cell; 3 and 5 frinu angle; 

 4 absent ; 6, 7 coincident. 



In creon there are faint traces of the aborted vein 8 from just before upper 

 angle of cell. 



Sect. I. Antennre of male with long branches ; fore wing with vein 6 from upper 

 angle of cull. 



A. Fore wing with triangular yellow mark on middle of inner 



margin pyrgmi, 



B. Fore wing with small triangular white spot above middle of 

 crcon 



