262 PTBALID^. 



Genus ZINCKENIA. 

 Hymenia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 360 (? 1818), nou descr. 

 Zinckenia, Zell. Lep. Caffr. in K. SvensJc. Vet. -Ah. Handl. 1852, p. 55. 



Type, Z. jperspectalis, Hiibn. 



Range. The tropical and warmer temperate zones. 



Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint broadly scaled in front and not 

 reaching vertex of bead, the 3rd well developed and acuminate ; 

 maxillary palpi long and filiform ; frons rounded ; antennae of 

 male nearly simple, the base of shaft excised and a tuft of hair 

 from extremity of basal joint ; tibiae with the spurs long and nearly 

 equal. Fore wing with veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell, 7 well 

 separated from 8, 9, to which 10 is approximated. Hind wing 

 with vein 3 from angle of cell ; 4, 5 approximated for a short 

 distance ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8. 



4785. Zinckenia perspectalis, Hiibn. Schmett. Eur., Pyr. fig. 101; 

 C. § S. no. 4261. 

 Spoladea exportalis, Guen. Delt. §■ Pyr. p. 227. 

 Zinckenia primordialis, Zell. K. Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1852, p. 56. 



Black-brown ; palpi with the 2nd joint banded black and white ; 

 abdomen ringed with white. Tore wing with curved white ante- 

 medial hue ; a white spot in end of cell ; the postmedial line 

 represented by a white band from costa to vein 5, some white 

 specks (often obsolete) beyond the excurved portion between veins 

 5 and 2, and a sinuous white line (often reduced to specks) on the 

 retracted portion between vein 2 and inner margin; the cilia 

 white below apex and above outer angle. Hind w'ing with oblique 

 white medial band not reaching the costa and ending near anal 

 angle, broad below costa and beyond lower angle of cell, then 

 narrowing ; the cilia white below apex and at middle. 



Hah. Nearctic, Neotropical, and Ethiopian regions ; Ceylon ; 

 Burma ; Java ; Tahiti. Exp. 20 millim. 



47S6. Zinckenia fascialis, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv, pi. 398, fig. 0. 

 Phakena angustalis, Fabr. Mont. Ins. ii, p. 222. 

 Phalsenaxecurvalis, Fabr.Ent. Syst. iii, pt. 2, p. 237 ; C. # S. no. 4262.. 

 Hymenia diffascialis, Hiibn. Verz. p. 361. 



Hydrocampa albifascialis, Poind. Faun. Ent. Madag., Lep. p. 119, 

 pi. 16, fig. 7. 



Differs from perspectalis in being browner. Pore wing with 



no antemedial line ; a medial 

 black-edged white band deve- 

 loped, not reaching the costa, 

 its outer edge irregular and 

 toothed on vein 2. Hind wing 

 with the band wider, more 

 regular, less .oblique, and only 



Fig. 158.— Zinckenia facialis, J . {. slightly narrowing to inner 



margin. 

 Hab. Neotropical and Ethiopian regions ; Palaaarctic Asia from 



(Syria to Japan : the whole Oriental and Australian regions. 



Exp. 24 millim. 



