Balacra herona (Druce, [1888])

Druce, H. (1888). Descriptions of some new species of Lepidoptera Heterocera,
mostly from tropical Africa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London
1887: 668 ff.; p. 669 (as Anace herona).

Anace herona, n. sp.

Primaries almost uniform yellowish white, slightly darker along the costal
margin; a red spot on the inner margin close to the base; secondaries uniform
pale yellow. Underside of all the wings pale yellowish white, the costal
margin of the secondaries shaded with red. The lower part of the head and
underside of the thorax reddish; the upper half of the head, collar, thorax,
and tegulae white, with very indistinct reddish lines. Abdomen yellowish, with
a tuft of bright red hairs on each side close to the base.

Hab. West Africa: Mongo-ma Lobah (Thompson).

A specimen of this species is also in the British Museum, from Aburi.

Hampson, G. F. (1898). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British
Museum, vol. 1, Catalogue of the Syntomidae. British Museum, London; pp.
149-150, fig. 61 (as Pseudapiconoma herona).

293. Pseudapiconoma herona.

Anace herona, Druce, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 669 (1888); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 221.

Male. Very pale reddish brown; palpi, frons, neck, pectus, edge of tegulae,
and stripes on patagia and mesothorax crimson; metathorax and 1st segment of
abdomen with lateral tufts of crimson hair, the rest of abdomen orange-yellow,
leaving a brownish-grey dorsal fascia. Fore wing with slight crimson marks at
base of costa, median nervure, and inner margin; a semihyaline bar across end
of cell, leaving the rest of cell and a discocellular patch deeper red-brown.
Hind wing orange-yellow.

Hab. W. Africa, Aburi (Carter), 1 male; Mongo-ma, type male in Coll. Druce.
Exp. 50 millim.

Seitz, A. (1926). Balacra. In: Seitz, A. (ed.), The Macrolepidoptera of the
World, vol. 14, The African Bombyces and Sphinges. Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart;
p. 54, pl. 7 b.

B. herona Drc. (7 b). Body and forewing pale red-brown; on the sides of the
base of the abdomen there are scarlet pads. Forewing with slightly darker
veins, and at the cell-end vein with a transverse shadow being on both sides
edged with white; hindwing yellowish-pink. West Africa.