38 Transactions. — Zoology. 



16. Dasypodia, Gn. 



Eyes naked. Palpi with terminal joint very slender. An- 

 tennae in male filiform, hardly pubescent. Thorax and abdomen 

 not crested. Tarsi in male very much ^thickened, with dense 

 scales {teste Guenee). 



62. Das. selenophora, Gn. 

 (Dasypodia selenophora, Gn., Noct. vii., 175.) 



Female. — 75 mm. Head dark fuscous. Palpi dark fuscous, 

 second joint ochreous-yellowish beneath, terminal joint f of 

 second. Antennae whitish - ochreous, base dark fuscous. 

 Thorax, abdomen, and legs ochreous-brown, anterior edge of 

 collar, under- surface, and hairs of femora ochreous-yellowish. 

 Forewings elongate-triangular, costa posteriorly moderately 

 arched, apex obtuse, hiudmargin waved, slightly rounded, 

 oblique ; brown, slightly purplish - tinged, on median fascia 

 paler and tinged with pale ochreous ; first and second lines 

 hardly indicated by darker margins in disc ; a rather large 

 crescentic dark grey spot in disc, margined first with whitish- 

 blue, then black, then orange, then black again, concavity 

 filled with a circular black spot ; a median series of three fine 

 dark-brown lines near beyond this, innermost sending three 

 very acute teeth inwards beneath discal ocellus ; a marginal 

 series of bluish-white crescentic dots : cilia brown. Hindwings 

 brown, lighter and ochreous-tinged towards base ; a median 

 series of three waved lines obscurely indicated ; marginal dots 

 and cilia as in forewings. 



Napier, Eichmond and Christchurch, in January; appa- 

 rently not common. Occurs commonly in Eastern Australia. 



17. Khapsa, Walk. 



Eyes naked. Palpi very long, obliquely ascending, loosely 

 rough-scaled throughout, second joint with dense long projecting 

 tuft above towards apex, terminal joint moderate. Antenuse 

 in male moderately bipectinatcd, apex simple. Thorax and 

 abdomen not crested. Forowhigs in male beneath with large 

 broad costal fold on anterior half. 



63. Ehaps. scotosialis, Walk. 



[Rhapm scotosialix, Walk., Suppl., IITjO; Herminia lilacina, Butl., Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, pi. xlii., 11.) 



Male, female. — 32-37 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and 

 thorax fuscous or greyish-ochreous. Abdomen pale greyish- 

 nchrcous. Logs diiik fuscous, apex of joints ochreous-whitish. 

 Forewings very elongate- triangular, costa arched posteriorly, 

 apex obtuse, hindmargin wavid, rather obliquely rounded ; 



