176 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA — HYPSIDAE, ANTHELIDAE, 



288. — Darala pi)igui)i Wlk., ib., xxxii., p. 372. — Colussa uvaria Wlk., ih., xssv., 

 p. 1576.— i». Jatifera Wlk., Tians. Eut. Soe., 1862, p. 266.— 1». eaniceps Wlk., 

 ib., p. 269. — D. limonea Butl., Cist. Ent., i., 1874, p. 291. — Z>. succinea Luc, 

 Froc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 1891, p. 290.— i*. scortea Luc. ib., 1891, p. 290. 



d'. 62 — 76 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow or pinkish, rarely pale- 

 grey; face fuscous or purple-fuscous, rai'ely yellow. Palpi U; fuscous or 

 purple fuscous. Antennae yellow, very rarely whitish; pectinations fuscous. 

 Legs fuscous or purple- fuscous, often irrorated with whitish; coxae and femora 

 ochreous-tinged, yellow, or pinkish ; apices of femora white. Forewings triangu- 

 lar, costa straight to past middle, thence arched, apex pointed, termen slightly 

 sinuate beneath apex, slightly oblique; yellow or pinkish, rarely gi'ey or ochreous- 

 grey; markings fuscous, rarely reddish; sometimes a crenulate transverse line at 

 about i ; a discal dot beneath -5 costa, and another larger beyond middle, not 

 white-centred, rarely obsolete; exceptionally an outwardly curved crenulate line 

 at about i, touching, or just beyond, tirst discal dot; a line troui | costa to | 

 dorsum always present, edged posteriorly with yellow, nearly straight, but 

 sharply bent inwards just beneath costa; occasionally this is followed by some 

 purple-fuscous suffusion ; a deeply crenulate subterminal line, sometimes reduced 

 to a series of dots, or wholly obsolete; cilia yellowish or pinkish, rarely grey. 

 Hindwings with termen rounded, tornus prominent, or forming a rounded pro- 

 jection; 6 and 7 stalked, 11 present or ab.^ent; as forewings, but without discal 

 dots and antemedian lines ; subterminal line sometimes closely followed by a 

 similar but more suffused parallel line. Underside similar, but forewings with- 

 out antemedian lines; hindwingis with two discal dots. 



2. 82 — 110 mm. Forewings with costa strongly arched throughout, apex 

 acute, strongly produced, termen more strongly sinuate; as in <S but with more 

 tendency as a rule to obsolescence of marking's except postiucdian lino; some- 

 times a short, pale, oblique streak from apes. 



By an unfortunate error I formerly (Trans. Ent. Soc, 1894, p. 480) attri- 

 buted the name acuta to this species instead of to the following. Both raria 

 and acuta are characterised by the nearly straight ])ostmedian line bent inwards 

 beneath costa. They are closely allied and both extremely variable, so that it 

 is not easy to give absolutely distinctive characters. The discal dots can usually 

 be relied on, but T have seen a ? from Kuranda in which these are wholly 

 white.* A. varia is a larger insect, and the $ may be distingiiished from acuta 

 by this, and the more strongly produced apex of forewing's. 



N. Qld. : Kuranda near Cairns, Stannary Hills; Qld.: Rockhanipton, Brisbane, 

 Stradbroke I.; N.S. Wales: Glen Innes; Vic: Melbourne, Hairnsdale, Merrigum 

 (120 miles nortii of Melbourne'). 



24. Aktiiela acuta. 



Darala acuta Wlk.. ('.'it. Brit. Mus., iv., p. 889. — D. excit<a Wlk., ib., iv., ji. 

 889.— i^*. ferriujinea Wlk., ib.. iv., p. 890.— D. con.sperMi Wlk., ib., iv., p. 891.— 

 D. simpler Wlk., ib., iv., p. 891.— £>. plana Wlk., ib.. iv., p. 892.— 7J. sub- 

 falcata Wlk., ib., iv., p. 894. — D. falcata Wlk., ib., iv., ji. 805. — D. cinera.-icetis 

 Wlk., ib., iv., p. 900.— Ennomos ? potentaria Wlk., ib.. xxvi., ]>. 1519.— 7). 

 rufifcuicia Wlk., ib., xsxii., p. 370. — D. delineata Wlk.. ib.. xxxii., p. 371. — I), 

 quadriplaga Wlk.. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1862. p. 269. 



d. 34 — 62 nmi. Head, thorax, and ahdomen grey, brownish, oclireous, or 

 reddish; face usually fuscous. Palpi IJ; fuscous or reddish. Antennae yellow 



* Perhaps these represent a distinct species not yet clearly differentiated. 



