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5. Nyssia? VIDUA. 



Nigro-fusca ; alee anticce linea valde obliqua et angulata albida ; 

 posticce sordide cervinee. 



Phalsena-Bombyx vidua, Anon, Ins. Surin. i. pi. 6. 



Surinam. 



6. Nyssia? dicolon. 



Fusca ; alee anticce nigro strigatce, fascia obliqua exteriore nigra 

 albido guttata, macula postica flava ; posticce pallidiores. 



Phalaena-Bombyx dicolon, Anon, Ins. Surin. ii. pi. 83. 



Surinam. 



Africa. 



7. Nyssia picta. 



Prasina ; caput subtus, palpi aniennceque ferruginea ; pectus et 

 abdomen fulva aut testacea ; pedes fulvi; alee anticce ferrugi- 

 nece aut fuscce, vitta coslali fasciaque interrupta et nonnum- 

 quam obsoleta prasinis ; posticce testacece. 



Grass-green. Head beneath, palpi and antennae ferruginous. 

 Pectus and abdomen tawny or testaceous. Legs tawny. Fore 

 wings ferruginous, grass-green along the costa, and with an oblique 

 and widely interrupted grass-green band beyond the middle ; under 

 side and hind wings testaceous. Length of the body 6 — 7 lines ; 

 of the wings 15 — 18 lines. 



Var. p. Fore wings brown, with no green band ; under side of 

 the four wings tawny. 



rt — c. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Rev. D. F. Morgan. 



Madagascar. 



8. Nyssia florifera. 



Ferrugineo-rufa ; caput supra et thorax antice alba ; antennae 

 nigrce ; thorax postice et abdomen fulva ; pedes antici fulvo 

 vittati ; alee antica fascia discali obliqua e maculis tribus 

 albis duabusque viridibus ; posticce fiavescentes, ferrugineo 

 marginatce. 



Nyssia florifera, Herr.-Schceff. Lep. Exot. Sp. Ser. i. f. 178. 



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