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ZAZUNGA; TRICHOCOSMIA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
teratophora. 
corticosa. 
opinor. 
zetacelis. 
mo'es. 
inornata. 
demacula. 
drasteroides. 
A. teratophora H.-Schdff. (= inscripta WTcr.) (5 f) has been placed to the genus Amyna (Erastrianae) 
by Hampson, but it probably belongs hereto. Dark brown, dusted with grey; anterior transverse line indistinct, 
doubly undulate, the posterior line single, dentate, with white dots behind it on the veins; the small, round 
ring-macula is surrounded with single white scales, the reniform macula is white, surrounded and strewn with 
black. Hindwing dusted with brown. Canada to Florida and Texas. 
A. corticosa Gn. was described as a ,,Bryophila“ by Guenee and compared with Metachrostis muralis 
Forst. (Vol. Ill, t. 4 f). The abridged description runs as follows: shape of ( Bryophila ) glcindifercr, wings whitish- 
grey, speckled with light brown and black, all the lines black. Basal area of white-green colour, the demi-line 
and at the spot of the proximal margin black. Discal area greyish-brown, slightly mixed with yellowish-brown; 
marginal area white, spotted brown. Submarginal line very black, very much undulate, the fringes whitish, 
pierced by black rays, of a dull pearl-white colour; at the proximal angle a black shade almost to the centre. 
Abdomen beneath white. Body rather strong, antennae long. South America. 
Additions to the subordinate group Mominae. 
As the first part of the Acronyctinae, the Mominae , was already printed since 1919, we must, in order not to be 
too backward, add hereto two more genera belonging to this group. 
7. Genus: Zazunga Dyar. 
Antennae in both sexes short and thick, flattened, the joints on both surfaces with a double impression, 
smooth, not ciliated. On the forewing the middle radial rises close at the lower; the lower subcostal vein rises 
just before the end of the accessory cell, the two next ones bifurcate from the end of that cell. On the hindwing 
the upper median vein rises on a short fork with the lower radial just like the upper radial vein with the sub¬ 
costal, whereas the middle radial originates near the lower cell-angle. The legs are long-haired, without 
spines; frons smooth; palpi obliquely rising; thorax clad with long, hair-like scales, abdomen not tufted. 
Z. opinor Dycir (5 c). Bluish-grey, transverse lines blackish, feeble. The ring-macula in a whitish 
ring, finely encircled and pupilled with black, with a similarly pupilled ring below it; the dark, faded discal 
shade touches the large reniform macula which is similarly marked; the postmedian line is a whitish shade 
with black dots on the veins just like the subterminal line, with a black anal sagitta. Hind wing white. Antennae 
ochreous. Expanse of wings: 35 to 38 mm. From Mexico (Zacualpan, Orizaba). 
Z. zetacelis Dyar is thinly scaled, light grey with darker veins, with a darker shade in the inner- 
marginal half; transverse lines faint, dark; ring-macula a black ring with a yellowish, black-pupilled spot below 
it; the reniform macula is filled up with light yellowish, with a black zigzag line in the centre; the posterior 
transverse lines like in opinor, but the anal sagitta is absent. Hindwing semi-diaphanous grey. Expanse of 
wings: 38 mm. Mexico (Jalapa). 
Z. moes Dyar. Here the grey forewing is somewhat strewn with black; the antemedian line is light, 
from the costal margin to the median distally and from there to the proximal margin proximally bordered with 
black, in this latter course distally dislocated. The ring-macula is an unpupilled black ring, the reniform macula 
is light, in the centre almost white, very large, indistinctly bordered with black, instead of the coniform macula 
a light spot strewn with red-brown. The light postmedian line is dentate, the subterminal line likewise 
dentate, analwards proximally bordered with black. Hindwing white, towards the apex lined somewhat grey. 
Expanse of wings: 35 mm. Described from Arizona (Washington Mountain). 
8. Genus: Trichocosmia Grt. 
This small genus which Hampson inserts in his large A cron yctine-ia, mil y belongs yet hereto owing to 
the finely haired eyes and the strong middle radial of the hind wing rising distinctly nearer at the lower branch. 
Proboscis developed, palpi of medium length, obliquely ascending, anteriorly haired. Frons with a faint, rounded 
projection and a horny plate below it. antennae ciliated; thorax clad with scales and hairs, behind with a 
loose tuft. 
T. inornata Grt. (5 c). Whitish, dusted with red-brown; the undulate transverse lines reddish-brown, 
on the averted sides bordered with white, the subterminal line similar; the reniform macula represented by 
a small dark spot in the lower cell-angle, which is absent in the form demacula Strd. Hindwings of a pure white. 
Known from Arizona. 
T. drasteroides Sm. (5 c), originally described as Caradrina, is larger, of a yellowish white, scantily 
strewn with black, in the marginal half greyer. Of the transverse lines only the posterior is more distinct, 
