LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 755 



a, Caffraria. From M. Becker's collection. 



b, c. South Africa. From Mr. Argent's collection. 



d. Port Natal. From M. Gueinzius' collection. 



Genus 63. EGYBOLIA. 



^ Corpus sat validum. Proboscis longa. Palpi prominuli, por- 

 recti, capitis latitudine multo longiores; articulus 2us lo triplo 

 longior; 3us gracilis, cylindricus, 2i dimidio aequalis. Thorax 

 plumis latis vestitus. Abdomen alas posticas non superans. Pedes 

 longiusculi, sat validi; tibiae posticae calcaribus quatuor longissi- 

 mis. Alae squamosa?, latissimae. Mas. — Antennae mediocriter pec- 

 tinatae. Fcem. — Antennae simplices. 



Phalama, p., Stoll. 

 Egybolia, Boisd. 

 Caloptera, Blanchard. 



Allied to Ophiusa, a genus of Noctuites. Body moderately 

 stout. Proboscis long. Palpi prominent, porrect, much longer 

 than the breadth of the head ; second joint thrice the length of the 

 first ; third slender, cylindrical, about half the length of the second. 

 Thorax clothed with broad plumes. Abdomen extending as far as 

 the hind wings. Legs rather long and stout ; hind tibiae with four 

 very long spurs. Wings very broad, squamose. Fore wings with 

 the second inferior vein as far from the first as from the third ; 

 third about four times further from the fourth than from the second. 

 Male. — Antennae moderately pectinated. Female. — Antennae 

 simple. 



1. Egybolia Vaillantina. 



Cyaneo-viridis ; caput, palpi, antennce, tibiee anticce omnino et pos~ 



teriores apice ochracea ; alee latce, anticce fasciis duabus nigris, 



fasciaque lata basali maculisque duabus anticis guttaque pos- 



I tica nonnunquam obsoleta ochraceis ; alee posticce nigrce, apice 



margineque postico cyaneo-viridibus. 



Phalaena Vaillantina, Stoll. Suppl. Cram. Pap. Exot. v. 142, pi. 31, 



f.3. 

 iCaloptera formosa, Blanchard, Hist. Ins. pi. 17, f. 6. 

 , Egybolia Vaillantiana, Boisd. Voy. de Delagorgue. 

 i , Angas, Kaffirs, Illustrated, pi. 30, f. 19. 



<z, b. Port Natal. From Dr. Krauss' collection. 



c, d. Port Natal. From M. Gueinzius' collection. 



e. Zoolu Country. Presented by G. F. Angas, Esq. 

 </. South Africa. From M. Becker's collection. 



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