LEPTDOPTEGA OF THE FAINFTLT ZYdJR'SlVX. 359 



."3. S. AURiFRONS, Walker, Lep. Het. Suppl. i. p. 109 (1864). 



Sierra Leoue (Foxcroft). Type, B,M. 



One of the most beautiful of tlie Zygtenida?. 



Genus Phacfsa, WaHcer. PL XXVIII. fig. 15. 



1. Phacusa TENEBROSA = Glaucopis (Phacusa) tenebrosa, Walker' 

 Lep. Het. i. p. 150. 



Syntomis tenebrosa, Walker, Lep. Het. vii. p. 1592. 



India (Stevens). Type, B.M. 



2. P. Crawfurdi = Syntomis Crawfurdi, Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, pi. 60. 

 fig. 11. 



Java (Horsfield). Type, B.M. 



Genus Thteetes, Boisduiml. PI. XXVIII. fig. 11. 



1. Thyretes hippotes = Sphinx hippotes, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. 

 pi. 286. f. A. 



Cape of Good Hope. 6,9-, B.M. 



2. T. CAFFRA, Wallengren, Kongl. Svenska. Vetensk. Akad. Handl. v. 

 p. 11. 



South Africa. 



Eather smaller in both seses than the preceding species. 



3. T. MONTANA, Boisd. Voy. de Deleg. ii. p. 597, et Wallengren, 

 op. cit. 



East Caffi-aria. 



4. T. MoNTEiRoi, n. sp. 



Body ochre yellow, eyes, antenna, centre of dorsum, and edges of ab- 

 dominal segments black-brown, a line down each side of the abdomen 

 of the same colonr : wings dark brown ; a testaceous hyaline band 

 from centre of inner margin, round lower edge of ceil, to lower radial 

 nervure, cut by the median branches into four unequal parts ; a semi- 

 cu'cular spot of the same colour within the end of the cell, and another 

 oval spot near apex ; secondaries v>ith the basal half irregularly testa- 

 ceous hyaline ; an oval bifid disco-submarginal spot of the same colour, 

 cut by the third median nerviu'e : below nearly as above : expanse of 

 wings 30 millims. 



Ambriz [Monteiro). Type, B.M. 



A very pretty little species. 



Genus Apisa, WaU-er. 



1. Apisa canescens. Walker, Lep. Het. iv. p. 917, n- 1 (1855). 

 South Africa (Argent). Type, B.M. 



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