ZYGAENA; EPIZYGAENA; NEUROSYMPLOCA. By M. Gaede. 
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B. setipes Plotz (2 b) is also similar to latipest Forewing at the apex white. Otherwise the hyaline 
spots are the same. Abdomen at the base above often finely margined with white, beneath with white spots, 
otherwise bluish-black. Expanse 28 to 30 mm. Togo, Sierra Leone, Spanish Guinea, Gabun. -— ventripicta 
Strd. only differs by the orange-yellow apex of the abdomen. Cameroon. 
B. albapennis B.-BciJc. Black with hyaline spots, 3 of which are in the submedian fold and 1 behind 
it. Behind and below the cell 2 spots each, in the cell no spot. Hindwing like that of latipes. Abdomen at 
the base white, apically orange yellow. Expanse 30 mm. Lagos. 
D. Subfamily: Zygaeninae. 
Anterior tibia always with spur, proboscis present, palpus almost invariably short. Forewing with 
2 hindmarginal veins. Some species owing to the hyaline hindwings look like Syntomids, others owing to their 
variegated colours like Arctiids. 
Genus: Zygaena F. 
This genus containing such a great number of species in the palearctic region is not represented in Africa, since 
the insects described as , ,Zygaena '‘ are, mostly species of Epizygacna. 
In the Berlin Museum there is a form of filipendulae from Transvaal, but the name of the patria is surely wrong. 
Nevertheless we have figured the Berlin specimen (2 k) in order to enable its being re-examined. 
1. Genus: l^i/.,vgat k aia Jord. 
Separated from the preceding genus only by exhibiting but one pair of spurs on the hind tibiae. Type: 
Jcaschmirensis Roll. 
E. procrioides Btlr. Body black, patagiae with yellow base, abdomen beneath orange-yellow. All 
the wings blackish-brown, hyaline. -— In xanthosoma Jord. (2 b) the body is also above orange, only the anal 
end is black. Expanse 24 to 39 mm. Abyssinia, East Africa. 
E. abessynica Koch (2 e) is probably only a much flown specimen of xanthosoma and to be cancelled 
owing to its being inaccurately described. Otherwise this name would have the priority. 
E. holoxanthina Mob. (2 b). Body as in xanthosoma. Forewing at the base across the whole surface, 
hindwing only at the costal margin liued with orange-yellow. The brown ground-colour is somewhat lighter 
than in xanthosoma. Expanse 24 to 34 mm. Abyssinia. 
E. ochreipennis Btlr. (— tricolorata Ww.) (2 c). Thorax black, abdomen pink. Forewing orange- 
yellow. The distal half at the costal margin, and the distal margin are narrowly black. Hindwing pink, at 
the apex more broadly margined with black. Expanse 30 to 34 mm. Transvaal, Delagoa Bay. — nigromarginata 
B.-Bak. Abdomen black, hindmarginal fold of hindwing hyaline. West Africa. 
E. ochroptera Fldr. (2 c). Thorax and abdomen black. All the wings are orange, margined with black, 
on the forewing also the costal margin in the distal half. Expanse 28 to 32 mm. Transvaal. 
E. myodes Drc. (2 c) resembles more the Asiatic forms. Thorax and abdomen black. Forewing black 
with very large orange spots. The two basal spots and the median spots are confluent, besides there is 1 subapical 
and subterminal large spot. Hindwing orange, at the apex somewhat more broadly margined with black. Expanse 
30 to 34 mm. Transvaal, Natal. 
E. niicrosticha Jord. is similar to a small myodes (2 c) in which the G spots of the forewing are isolated. 
Besides the tibiae are beneath yellow. Expanse 18 mm. Cape Colony. 
2. Genus: I% T ciirosyiii|>ll«c» Wllgr. 
Palpi short, densely haired. Antennae as in Zygaena. Hind tibiae with 2 pair of short spurs. The two 
hindmarginal veins of the forewing are united as far as the middle, otherwise the veins are the same as in Zygaena. 
Type: wallengreni Kirby. 
N. concirma Dahlm. (= pulchella Guer.) (2 c). Thorax and abdomen black, the latter with a broad 
red ring. Forewing blackish-brown, with a long yellow basal streak and 2 pair of small yellow spots. Hindwing 
with a large hyaline spot, otherwise red with a narrow black margin. Another form of it has the red colour 
replaced by yellow. Expanse 24 to 26 mm. Transvaal, Cape Colony. 
setipes. 
ventripicta. 
albapennis. 
procrioides. 
xanthoso¬ 
ma. 
abessynica. 
holoxanthi¬ 
na. 
ochreipen¬ 
nis. 
nigromargi¬ 
nata. 
ochroptera. 
myodes. 
niicrosticha. 
concinna. 
