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fore wings. Abdomen orange, rather short, tapering from the base 

 to the tip, with a broad black dorsal stripe, interrupted at two-thirds 

 of its length, occupying the whole breadth of the base, and tapering 

 from thence towards the tip, near which it has some bine scales. 

 Legs brown ; coxae with luteous tomentum ; fore tibiae slightly 

 curved ; hind tibia? with no middle spurs, their hind spurs mode- 

 rately long. Length of the body 5^ lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



a. West Africa. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



Group 19. ANTICHLORIS. 



Corpus sat angnstum. Palpi mediocres ; articulus 3us parvus. 

 Antennae sat late pectin ata?, apices versus serratae. Alae anticae 

 opacae, sat lata?, immaculate, apice subaeuminata?, margine postico 

 obtuse angulato ; posticae apice oblique truncatae et subangulata?, 

 margine postico snbsinuato. 



Antichloris p., H'ubn. Verz. Schmett. 124. 



Body rather narrow. Palpi moderately long ; second joiut 

 small. Antennae rather deeply pectinated, serrated towards the tips. 

 Fore wings opaque, unspotted, rather broad, slightly pointed at the 

 tips, obtusely angular on the hind border. Hind wings obliquely 

 truncated and slightly angular at the tips ; hind border a little 

 sinuated. Is allied to E. Phlegmon, and more especially to E. 

 fumipennis, but differs from all the preceding groups in the form of 

 its hind wings. 



81. ElJCHROMIA ERIPHIA. 



Nigro-viridis ; alee anticce subacuminatce ; posticce angulatce, antice 

 alba; abdominis latera albo guttata. 



Zygaena Eriphia, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. 163, 31; Mant. Ins. ii. 105, 



37; Ent. Syst. iii. 1,398,39. 

 Sphinx Zygaena Eriphia, Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 2396, 134. 

 Antichloris Phemonoe, H'ubn. Verz. Schmett, 124, 1348 ; Sainml. 



Exol. Schmett. 9, 8, f. 15, 16. 

 Antichloris Caca, H'ubn. Samml. Exot. Schmett. 24, 67, f. 133, 134. 



Brazil. Surinam. 



a. ? Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



b, c. Brazil. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



d. Tapavos, Brazil. From Mr. Bates' collection. 

 e. ? 



