MEG ANACLI A . — TH YRETES. 



137 



veins 2 and 7. Hind wing more hyaline, with brownish lunula 

 between bases of veins 2 and 3, and brownish terminal band broad 



r 



Fig. 55. — Metjanaclia sippia, ^ • r* 



and obsolescent towards costa, narrowing to tornus, its inner edge 

 waved and defining a very obscure postmedial series of spots. 



(5 rather darker, with the spots smaller. 



Hab. Old Calabar, 1 $ {Rutherford) ; Cameeoons ; Niger. 

 Exp. 60 millim. 



Genus THYRETES. 



Thyretes, Boisd. Voy. Delegorgue, ii. p. 596 (1847) 



Type. 



hippotes. 



Proboscis absent ; palpi minute, hairy, downturned ; antennse bipectinate in 

 male, serrate in female; legs fringed with hair; mid and hind tibiae with 

 minute terminal pairs of spurs ; abdomen with two small dorsal tufts at base. 

 Fore wing long and narrow, the costa arched towards apex which is somewhat 

 produced and acute ; veins 3, 4, 5 well separated at origin ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 stalked. Hind wing with vein 3 from near angle of cell; 5 from 

 well above angle or middle of discocellulars ; 7 absent. 



Sect. I. Build stout ; frons with large tuft of hair ; femora and tibia? fringed 

 with long hair. 



A. Wings with the markings hyaline. 



B. Wings with the markings yellow 



hippotcs. 

 montana,. 



259. Thyretes hippotes. 



am. Pap. Exot.iii.pl. 286. A 



Head and tegulae white ; a large frontal tuft brown below ; 



■>hinx hippotes, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 286. A (1780) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 103. 



Fig. 56. — Thyretes hippotes, (S . \. 



branches of antennae blackish, the basal joint yellow ; thorax white, 

 with brown dorsal stripe, the patagia fringed with brown ; abdomen 

 white, with dorsal and lateral series of brown diamond-shaped marks, 



