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HYBLAEINAE. 

 18. Hyblaea euryzona, sp. n. (pi. XVII, fig. 18). 



$ , 32 mm. 



Thorax above ochreous-brown ; antermal shaft dark brown ; head, 

 palpus above and maxillary palpus red-brown ; palpus beneath, pectus 

 and legs whitish tinged with yellow ; tarsi irrorated with brown, hair- 

 pencil on hind tibia reaching fully to end of second joint of tarsus, 

 distinctly double, the inner half whitish, the outer whitish suffused 

 with pale vermilion (especially towards tip) ; abdomen above reddish- 

 brown with the basal and anal segments and segmental lines orange, 

 beneath orange largely intermixed with fiery red. 



Fore wing rich ochreous-brown shaded with slightly darker, more 

 chocolate-brown and with two slight, greyish spots near apex, on 

 costa and termen. Markings obsolescent, much as in the common, 

 world-wide H. puera Cr., the least indistinct being the postmedial 

 costal patch and postmedial line (broadened behind the discocellulars 

 and before hind-margin, obsolescent between these three patches), and 

 a dark shade at apex between the two grey spots ; two ill-defined lines 

 distally to the postmedial and a diffused dark terminal shade ; fringe 

 proximally slightly paler than the wing, distally a shade darker than 

 wing. 



Hind wing golden-yellow with the base and terminal area black ; a 

 golden patch breaking into the black at termen behind M 2 ; fringe 

 reddish from apex to M 2 , then golden-yellow; the black areas unusually 

 reduced. 



Underside of both wings golden-yellow; the fore wing at costa and 

 fringe, the hind wing (broadly) on distal two-thirds of costa to termen, 

 and a subterminal band ending in a broad streak in fold sparsely 

 irrorated with fiery-red ; fore wing with a large black discal spot and 

 a broad black subterminal band from SC 4 to SM 1 (where it throws out 

 a proximal spur nearly to the discal spot) ; hind wing with a diffused 

 black spot on the red band behind M 2 . 



Congo Free State: Kikura Stream, Lufira Valley, May 8, 1919. 

 (T. A. Barns.) One $ . 



Perhaps nearest to the common West African occidentalium Holl., 

 but can be at once distinguished by the colour of fore wing, the 

 reduced black shading on hind wing, and much reduced black areas on 

 under surface, as well as by the longer hair-pencil on hind-tibia. This 

 pencil frequently gets damaged, but appears to differ considerably in 



