Balacra pulchra Aurivillius, 1892

Aurivillius, C. (1892). Verzeichniss einer vom Herrn Fritz Theorin aus Gabun
und dem Gebiete des Camerunflusses heimgebrachten Schmetterlingssammlung.
Entomologisk Tidskrift 13: 183 ff.; p. 200.

Translated from the Latin original.

Balacra pulchra n. sp. Snow-white, a transverse band of the vertex, the fore
coxae and the femora above broadly blood-red; hind wings minute. -- Expanse of
wings 38 mm. Male.
Camerun. -- Y. Sjöstedt.

Original Latin text:
Balacra pulchra n. sp. Nivea, fascia transversa verticis, coxis anticis
femoribusque supra late sanguineis; alis posticis minutis. -- Long. al.
exporr. 38 mm. Male. Camerun. -- Y. Sjöstedt.

Hampson, G. F. (1898). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British
Museum, vol. 1, Catalogue of the Syntomidae. British Museum, London; pp.
151-152, pl. VI fig. 14 (as Pseudapiconoma glagoessa).

298. Pseudapiconoma glagoessa. (Plate VI. fig. 14.)

Balacra glagoessa, Holland, Psyche, vi. p. 396 (1893).

Male. Pure white; antennae blackish; palpi except at tips, vertex of head,
patches behind eyes, and stripes on legs crimson. Fore wing with crimson point
at base of costa; the end of cell and the interspaces between veins 2 and 8
semihyaline.

Hab. W. Africa, Ogove R., Bule Country, 2 male. Exp. 50 millim. Type in Coll.
Holland.

Hampson, G. F. (1914). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British
Museum, Supplement, vol. 1, Catalogue of the Amatidae and Arctiadae (Nolinae
and Lithosianae). British Museum, London; p. 82.

298. Pseudapiconoma glagoessa, insert Balacra pulchra, Auriv. Ent. Tidskr.
xiii. p. 200 (1892), which has priority.

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 a.

B. pulchra Aur. (= glagoessa Holl.) (7 a) is quite uni-coloured white, vertex
red. The species somewhat resembles the American Automolis leucoptera (Vol.
VI, pl. 51 c). West Africa.