HY A. T. TUHNEK. 61 ;> 



Palpi in $ 1;^, terminal joint }. For description of the male 

 see Wairen, loc. cit. 



N.Q.: Kuranda, 6, 7. Also from Louisiades. 



Gen.27. Eucyclodes. 



Euci/dodeg Warr., Nov. Zool. ISQ-t, p. 390; Anisogamia Warr., 

 Nov. Zool. 189«, p.286(;;mocc.). 



Face smooth, sometimes with some projecting scales on lower 

 edge. Tongue strongly developed Palpi in $ moderate or 

 rather long, with terminal joint fairly long or abbreviated; in ^ 

 long. Antennae in ^ pectinated, apices simple; in 9 dimple- 

 Thorax and aljdoraen not crested; thorax densely hairy beneatli, 

 usually with a tuft of very long hairs beneath base of forewing. 

 Posterior tibise with all spurs present; in ^ dilated, with a stout 

 terminal process. Hind wings without costal expansion at base; 

 frenulum and retinaculum in ^ well developed; frenulum in ^ 

 represented by a pencil of long hairs. Forewings with 3 and 4 

 widely separate at origin, 6 connate, 11 usually free, rarely 

 anastomosing with 12, or with 12 and 10; discocellulars strongly 

 incurved. Hindwings with 3 and 4 usually stalked, sometimes 

 connate, 6 and 7 stalked, 8 closely approximated to cell for some 

 distance, sometimes nearly to middle; discocellulars very oblique, 

 usually straight, sometimes slightly angled, with dorsal somewhat 

 curved; costal edge of cell short, usually f , rarely |. 



Type, Phorodesmcc huprestaria Gn. The genu.s is a large one 

 in the Papuan region. Its characteristics are the well developed 

 frenulum in both sexes, the dense woolly hairiness of the under- 

 side of the thorax, the wide separation of veins 3 and 4 of the 

 forewings, and the extremely oblique discocellular of hindwing, 

 with consequent abbreviation of the costal edge of the cell The 

 species ar-e mostly remarkable for the great diversity of colour 

 and markings in the two sexes, a very rare trait in the Geo- 

 metridce. In E. metaspila and E. buprestaria, however, the 

 sexes are alike. The larvae of E. insperata, E. jrieroides, and E. 

 metaspila are known. They are very similar, having large 

 flattened projections on both sides of the dorsum of each segment. 



