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REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, vi.* 

 By A. Jefferis Turner, M.D., F.E.S. 



Gen. 38. Eugnesia. 



Eugnesia, Warr., Nov. Zoo!., 1897, p.76. 



Frons fiat, with a slight frontal tuft. Tongue well-developed. 

 Palpi long, porrect or slightly ascending; basal joint very long, 

 shortly rough-haired beneath; second joint smooth ; terminal 

 joint about second tolerably acute. Antennae long (about i): 

 in £ simple. Thorax not crested, slightly hairy beneath. Fore- 

 wings with 6 from angle of cell; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked from well 

 before angle, 11 from cell, anastomosing with 12. Hindwings 

 normal. 



Type, E. correspondens Warr., from Philippines. I have only 

 seen one £ °f the following species, which was described by 

 Warren from a single Q. The genus belongs to the Deilinia 

 group. 



129. Eugnesia aurantiaca. 



Eugnesia aurantiaca, Warr., Nov. Zool., 1897, p. 77. 



2- 29 mm. Head orange; upper and lower margins of face 

 yellow. Palpi 1|: orange, base of first joint, and apices of first 

 and second joints yellow. Antennae ochreous. Thorax and 

 abdomen yellow. Legs whitish-oohreous. Forewings triangular, 

 costa gently arched, apex rounded, termen gently rounded, 

 oblique; pale yellow with numerous irregularly scattered orange 

 dots; a small orange discal spot before middle; a broad, orange, 

 sinuate, denticulate, postmedian line from j costa to | dorsum; 

 basal I of costa broadly strigulated with fuscous; a terminal 

 series of fuscous dots; cilia yellow. Hindwings with termen 



* Continued from Vol. xlii., 1917, Part 2, p. 390. 



