THALPOPHILA. N£OPHJi:yiS. 681 



fuscous-hrown centres and pale annuli defined by black, the former 

 elongate and confluent with the latter, some blackish before it in 

 cell ; postmcdial line black defined hj whitish on outer side, 

 excurved from costa to vein 5, then oblique, bent outwards to inner 

 margin and with a black streak before it below vein 1 ; sub terminal 

 line represented by a series of whitish points in the interspaces 

 with wedge-shaped black streaks before them and slight black 

 streaks from them to termen ; a terminal series of slight black 

 lunules ; cilia white tinged with fuscous at tips. Hind wing white, 

 the terminal area faintly tinged with brown ; a fine brown terminal 

 line ; the underside with the costal area slightly tinged with brown. 

 Rab. S.W. France ; Spain, Catalonia, Eilbao ; Sicilt, 1 J ; 

 Algeria, ^tp. 42 millim. 



Genus NEOPH^NIS, 



nov. 



Type, iV. resjwiidcns. 



Proboscis fiiJly developed : pnlpi upturned, the 2ud joint reaching about to 

 middle of frons and smoothly scaled, "the scales at extremity produced to a 

 sl'ght point in front, the 'dvA joint porrect, typically short ; frons smooth; 

 eyt^s large, round; antennaB of male almost simple; thorax clothed almost 

 entirely with scales and without crests ; build slender ; fore tibiae fringed with 

 hair, the mid and hind tibije smoothly sealed ; abdomen with dorsal crests on 

 basal segments. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved 

 and hardly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle; 9 from 10 anasiomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 tVom angle of cell ; 6 obsolescent from middle of 

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

 only. 



A. Hind wing orange re^pondcns. 



B. Hind wing deep blood-red. 



a. Hind wing not tinged with grey. 



a}. Fore wing bright emerald-green not irrorated with 



black fraiienfeldi. 



ii. Fore wing deep emerald-green strongly irrorated with 



black vieferythra. 



h. Hind wing tinged with grey ^js«7zf«cea. 



3579. Neophaenis respondens. 



TolyphlcEnis respondens, Wlk. xv. 17-0 (1858) ; Druce, Eiol. Cent. -Am., 



Het. i. p. 293, pi. 27. f. 24. 

 PolyiManis oehraceata, Wlk. xxsiii. 724 (1865). 

 I'olyphanis aurea, Schaus, J. K.Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 110 (1898). 



Head and thorax bright emerald-green mixed with blackish and 

 some white : pal])i white, the 2nd joint black above^ and at ex- 

 tremity ; frons with lateral black points ; pectus and legs white, 

 the fore tibiae and tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen 

 yellowish white dorsally suffused with brown, the crests green 

 tipped with black. Fore wing bright emerald-green irrorated with 

 white ; subbasal line represented by double black striae from costa, 

 a dift'used mark in cell and oblique striga above vein 1; antemedial 

 line double, Avavcd, oblique from costa to above vein 1 ; claviform 



