BY A. JEFFERIS TURNER. 1&7 



slightly or moderately rounded; 6 and 7 connate, 11 present; as forewings, but 

 without discal dots. Underside similar but with two discal dots on eaeli wing, 

 which may or may not be white centred. 



?. 72 — 104 mm. Wings grey; markings as in d", but postmedian line edged 

 posteriorly by a brownish line. 



Tasmanian c? examples are brown, those from the mainland are lighter and 

 often ochreous or reddish ; the ? varies little. 



Vic: Melbourne, Beaconsfield, Kewell; Tas. : Hobart; S. Aust. : Kangaroo 

 Island. 



Gen. 5. C H e l e p T e e y x. 



Chelepteri/x Gray, Trans. Ent. Soc, i., 1834.. p. 122. 



Palpi moderate, porreet. only slightly rough; terminal joint short. An- 

 tennae pectinated to apex in both sexes, pectinations shorter in 2. Posterior 

 tibiae with two pairs of spurs, which are placed rather near each other. Fore- 

 wings with 4 and 5 separate, all veins from areola separate, subapical cross- 

 bar from 10 to 9 shortly beyond their bifurcation, and sometimes prolonged by 

 a spur towards, but not reaching, 11. Hindwings with 3, 4, 5 separate, 6 and 

 7 approximated at base, 12 somewhat approximated to cell at i and connected 

 with it by 11, which is strongly developed. 



T3rpe, C. collesi Gray. There are only two species, both of large size. 



44. Chelepteryx collesi. 



Chelepteryx cullesi Gray, Trans. Ent. Soc, i., 1834, p. 122. — Saturnia 

 laplacei Feist., Voy. de la Fav., v., 1839, SuppL, p. 20, PL 8, 9. 



c?. 144 — 150 mm. Head brownish ; upper half of face dark-fuscous. 

 Palpi 2; dark-fuscous. Antennae brownish, pectinations dark-fuscous. Thorax 

 brownish mixed with dai'k- fuscous. Abdomen brownish. Legs fuscous; coxae 

 brown-whitish; anterior femora partly brown beneath. Forewings elongate- 

 triangular, costa straight to beyond middle, thence arched, apex rectangular, 

 termen strongly sinuate, strongly oblique; fuscous irrorated and suffused with 

 brown, and, in costal area, towards base with whitish ; with five dark-fuscous 

 transverse lines; iirst from g costa, broadly suffused on costa and interrupted 

 beneath costa, thence finer, sinuate, ending on dorsum beyond J; second very 

 irregularly dentate, inwardly oblique, obscure towards costa, from mid-costa 

 joining first line on dorsum; third from | costa, obscure towards costa, thicker 

 and wavy towards dorsum beyond middle; preceded by an obscurely outlined, 

 subcostal, circular, brownish spot ; fourth only defined in lower half, parallel 

 to termen, acutely dentate, ending on % dor.sum; fifth parallel and near to fourth, 

 but broadly suffused, only developed towards dorsum, margined posteriorly by a 

 pale line; the upper part of fifth line is replaced by three hyaline spots, placed 

 obliquely, and rather suffusedly outlined; cilia short, concolorous. Hindwings 

 with apex rectangular, termen only slightly rounded, tornus subrectangular; 

 dark-fuscous; a suffused, median, transverse, brownish line; deeply crenated, 

 ochreous, subterminal line, preceded by a series of small, linear, ochreous marks 

 on veins; area beyond subterminal line irrorated with ochreous; cilia short, con- 

 colorous. Underside fuscous irrorated with whitish along costa and termen; 

 a small white spot at end of cell; whitish postmedian and subterminal lines, 

 and hyaline subapical spots; of hindwing, whitish irrorated with fuscous brown; 

 a brownish wavy transverse line before middle, touching a circular, fuscous- 



