LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 
969 
Zebronia?? Abronalis. 
Fcera. Argenteo-alba, gracilis ; caput supra cervinum ; palpi bre- 
vissimi , subascendentes ; abdomen alas posticas perpaullo su - 
perans ; tarsi nigro fasciati ; alee antica acuta, linea interiore 
fusca recta incompleta nigricante notata , litura costali subapi -• 
cali fusca , linea marginali obscure fusca ; posticce alba , 
semihyalina, fimbria latissima. 
Female, Silvery white, slender. Head fawn-colour above. 
Palpi very short, slightly ascending ; third joint less than half the 
length of the second. Antennae slender. Abdomen extending very 
little beyond the hind wings. Tarsi with black bands. Fore wings 
acute, with an interior straight incomplete blackish-marked brown 
line ; a brown costal suhapical mark ; marginal line dark brown ; 
fringe iridescent ; exterior border straight. Hind wings white, semi- 
hyaline, with a very broad white fringe. Length of the body 2* 
lines ; of the wings 5 lines. 
Rio Janeiro. In Mr. Fry’s collection. 
Zebronia Lathurusalis. 
Foem. Candida , iridescens, gracilis ; palpi rostriformes , vix as - 
cendentes , supra fusci ; antenna longa , gracillima ; abdomen 
alas posticas paullo superans , linea dorsali fusca ; pedes longi , 
gracillimi ; ala lata , semihyalina, f asciis tribus fuscis subob- 
liquis fere parallelis , margine exteriore fusco ; antica apice 
subrotundata , costa cinereo- fusca, gutta subcoslali fusca ; pos- 
tica fascia 3 a apicali. 
Female. Shining white, iridescent, slender. Palpi rostriform, 
hardly ascending, as long as the breadth of the head, dark brown 
above. Antennae and legs long, very slender. Abdomen extending 
a little beyond the hind wings, with a brown dorsal line. Wings 
broad, semihyaline, with three slender slightly oblique nearly parallel 
brown bands ; the third band apical in the hind wings ; exterior 
border brown. Fore wings slightly rounded at the tips ; costa cine- 
reous-brown, with a contiguous brown dot between the first and 
second bands. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 
Nearly allied to Z . Phenicealis. 
a. Sierra Leone. From Mr. Foxcroft’s collection. 
A 
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