LEPIDOPTEEA HETEROCEKA. 193 



Var. y. Greenish fawn-colour. Fore wings with a curved 

 silvery discal streak, beyond which they are partly or wholly brown. 



a — c. Port Natal. From M. Gueiuzius' collection. 

 d, e. Congo. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 



2. Zonilia Peneus. 



Fusca ; caput subtus canescens ; abdominis latera nigricantia fas- 

 ciis interruptis canis ; alee anticce fasciis undulosis obscurio- 

 ribus plagisque nonnunquam cervinis aut cinereis, necnon 

 litura discali duplici aut triplici argentea ; posticce apud 

 marginem exteriorem obscuriores. 



Sphinx Peneus, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. 139, pi. 88, f. D. Fabr. 



Mant. Ins. ii. 93, 14. Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 2374, 56. 

 Sphinx funebris, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 1, 371, 47. 

 Sphinx didyma, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. 148, 41 ; Mant. Ins. ii. 96, 45 ; 



Ent. Syst. iii. 1, 371,48. Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 2381, 



79. 

 Nephele didyma, Hubn. Verz. Schrnett. 133, 1433. 



a — c. Africa. From Mr. Milne's collection. 



d—f. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Eev. D. F. Morgan. 



g. Congo. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 



3. Zonilia fumosa. 



Fusco-cervina, subtus testacea; caput subtus albidum ; caput 

 et thorax linea dorsali nigricante ; abdomen cervinum vitta 

 lata subinterrupta nigricante ; alee anticce fasciis obliquis 

 fuscis apice purpurascentes, apice valde obscuriores. 



Zonilia fumosa, Boisd. MSS. 



Brownish fawn-colour, testaceous beneath. Head whitish be- 

 neath. Head and thorax with a slender blackish dorsal stripe. 

 Abdomen fawn-colour, with a broad slightly interrupted blackish 

 stripe. Fore wings with oblique brown bands ; a purplish tinge to- 

 wards the tips. Hind wings much darker than the fore wings. 

 Length of the body 14 lines ; of the wings 24 lines. 



a. Congo. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 



