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NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXIII. 1916. 



7. Sychesia coccina spec. nov. (text-figs. 34-36, 46") 



In the scarlet tint of the collar, breast, coxae, abdomen and the basi-abdoininal 

 area of the hindwing similar to S. erubescens. Somewhat smaller than that species, 

 the pectinations of the antenna in the male longer, the scape reddish yellow on the 

 outside, and the terminal border of the hindwing much narrower in the male and 

 broader in the female, than in erubescens. 



The ninth tergite of the male has three processes on each side, as in S. subtilis. 

 The large process P 1 is compressed apically and rather strongly curved beyond the 



Fig 34 



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Text 



PIG 



34. 



— Sychesia 



coccina 



dorsal 



view. 





,, 



,, 



35.- 



— „ 



n * 



ventral 



view 



of clasper 



„ 



„ 



36.- 



— ,, 



i< i 



inner view 01 



clasper. 



middle, the apex being dentate and obliquely truncate, with the dorsal angle pro- 

 jecting (text-fig. 34). Process P 2 is stouter than in subtilis and P 3 is shorter. The 

 side-claspers are quite different. The valve is well developed (V, text-figs. 34-36), 

 while the lobes of the harpe (H) are small. In a ventral, semilateral aspect (text- 

 fig. 35) the valve and harpe are seen lying side by side, being merged together 

 except the apices, but recognised by the difference in colour and surface-structure. 

 Viewed from this direction only the largest lobe (L 3 ) of the harpe is visible. In a 

 dorsal view (text-fig. 34) the large lobe (L 3 ) is much more curved, and below it two 



