'838 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



a blackish ring, centre purplish ; a square patch on anal angle 

 ■suffusedly spotted with blackish, purplish-tinged. 



Var. a. AH blackish dots changed to fuscous, indistinct ; all 

 iblackish spots absent. 



Newcastle and Sydney, New South "Wales ; in December, 

 April, and May, three specimens. 



2. Problepsis, Ld. 



Face smooth. Palpi short, porrected or subascending, slender, 

 with appressed scales, or somewhat rough beneath, terminal joint 

 short. Antennae in ^ shortly bipectinated (1^), pectinations ter- 

 minating in long fascicles of cilia (2^-3), Thorax with a few 

 hairs beneath. Posterior tibife in ^ compressed, without spurs, 

 dn 2 ^11 spurs present ; posterior tarsi in ^ strongly abbreviated. 

 Forewings with veins 3 and 4 separate, 6 I'emote, 10 out of 9 

 below 8, 11 connected with 9 at a point below 7. Hindwings 

 with veins 3 and 4 separate, 6 and 7 separate. 



A small but widely distributed genus, occurring in the South 

 Pacific islands, Malay Archipelago, India, Africa, and South 

 Europe. On a critical examination of the structural characters, 

 I think Trichoclada, Meyr., should be sunk as a synonym of this 

 genus, although the species on which it was founded shows no 

 trace of the characteristic silvery-metallic discal markings. 



2. Prohl. apollinaria, Gn. 



{Argyris appollinaria (rect. apollinaria), Gn. x, 13.) 



^,41 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, abdomen, and legs 

 white ; palpi blackish above ; antennae greyish above. Forewings 

 with costa posteriorly modei'ately arched, hindmargin obliquely 

 rounded ; white ; costa narrowly grey from base to f ; a large 

 silvery-metallic circular ring in middle of disc, filled with grey 

 and silvery scales, posterior edge margined by a black lunule, 

 followed by a much larger pale brownish-ochreous lunule ; a pale 



