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Show 1877.] LEPIDOPTERA FROM CAPE YORK. 473 Family ZYGENID^E. Subfamily EUCHROMINJE, Butler. Genus EUCHROMIA, Hiibner. 37. EUCHROMIA IRUS. Sphinx irus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. p. 150, pl. 368. fig. A (1782). Several examples. Cape York. 38. EUCHROMIA ^EMULINA, n. sp. Wings above black; primaries with two metallic green spots at the base; a spot near the base, a bifid spot across the median vein, an elongated subcostal spot beyond the cell, and a bifid spot across the second median branch hyaline white: secondaries with the costa brown; a trifid basal spot and a large trifid spot beyond the cell hyaline white : body dark brown ; shoulders, front of collar, and metathorax ochreous; hind margins of abdominal segments ochraceous in front, carmine towards the anus ; vertex of head white; hinder part of shoulders, collar, inner margins of tegulse, hind margin of metathorax, and three spots on the basal segments of the abdomen opaline, varying from silvery white to green or blue; anterior coxse white ; venter carmine with a central series of black spots ; anus testaceous and black. Expanse of wings 1 inch 7 lines. One specimen. Cape York. This beautiful species comes nearer to E. arnica of Walker than to any other described form. The pattern of the wings is quite like Syntomis. Subfamily SYNTOMIN^E, Butler. Genus SYNTOMIS, Ochsenbeimer. 39. SYNTOMIS MARSDENI. Syntomis marsdeni, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1859, pl. 60. fig. 3. Two specimens. Cape York. This is another instance of the same Lepidopterous insect occurring in Java and Australia. Family ARCTIID^E. Genus AREAS, Walker. 40. AREAS PUNCTIPENNIS. Areas punctipennis, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xviii. p. 126. n. 30 (1876). One example. CaPe York- Family LITHOSIIDJE. Genus THEMISCYRA, Walker. 41. THEMISCYRA MACTATA. Mieza mactata, Felder, Reise der Nov. Lep. v. pl. cxxxix. fig. 44 (1876). |