LEOCYMA. 661 



Genus LEOCYMA. ^ 



Type. 



Leocyma, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 212 (1852) ajypollinis. 



TUgmm&a, Wlk. xxxiii. 979 (1865) ajjpollinis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, curved, the 2nd joint reaching 

 to vertex of head and slenderly scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth, with 

 ridge ot" hair above ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male ciliated ; thorax 

 clothed with scales and hair mixed and without crests; fore tibiae of male 

 typically with largely developed tufts of hair, the mid and Jiind tibiie 

 moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with some rough hair at base, but 

 without crests, fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved, 

 not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle; 7, 8 shortly stalked; 9, 10 stalked; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 nearly fully developed from well above 

 angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Fore tibias of male with greatly developed tufts of hair. 



A. Hind wing with the termen not suffused with brown 



towards apex appollinis. 



B. Hind wing with the termen suffused with brown irom 



apex to vein 2 vates. 



7120. Leocyma appollinis. 



Leocyma appollinis, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 212 (1852). 

 Thiganusa euproctisoides, Wlk. xxxiii. 979 (1865). 



<S . Head, thorax, and abdomen orange-yellow, the last with 

 traces of rufous dorsal segmental Hues ; palpi at sides, frons and a 

 patch behind the eyes black ; fore and mid tibite and tarsi, the 



Fig. 273. — Leocyma appollinis, cJ . \, 



spurs of hind tibite and the tarsi blackish. Fore wing yellow, a 

 small antemedial black spot in submedian fold and a small discoidal 

 spot. Hind wing orange-yellow. 



2 . Fore wing without the antemedial black spot. 



Hob. Natal, Durban {Q^ieinzius, Burroivs, Gooch, Leigh), 4 (S , 

 2 5 type euproctisokles ; Madagascab. Exp. 36-42 millim. 



Larva. Yellowish white with fine interrupted crimson dorsal 

 and subdorsal lines and lateral series of strife, the 1st somite with 

 dorsal black bar, the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 10th, and 11th somites 

 with double brown bars enclosing a small crimson spot on the 

 subdorsal line ; a lateral series of oblique crimson bars ; warts 



