4S0 REVISION' OF AUSTRAMAX l.KI'IDOPTKRA-LIPARIDAK. 



12. PORTHKSIA .MKI.AJIl'.APHES, 11. Sp. 

 (xsXatipacpr,; , Oark-eyetl. 



6. 28 mm. HeaJ ami tliorax fuscous, with some oclireous hairs. Palpi 

 and antennae fuseous. Abdomen dark-fuseous, tuft and undei-side oehreous. 

 Legs oehreous mixed witli fuseous. Forewings triang-uhir, costa gently arched, 

 more strongly so near base, apex rounded, termen shghtly bowed, ol)li<jue; oehre- 

 ous, thickly irrorated with dark-fuscous; a large basal patch mostly fuscous; a 

 suffused, fuscous, subterminal baud with an acute, median, posterior tooth ; cilia 

 fuscous, apices partly oehreous. Hindwings with termen rounded; deep oehreous, 

 with slight fuseous irroration; cilia oehreous, with some fuscous admixture. 

 Undereide oehreous . 



Type in Coll. Lyell. 



Vie.: Ocean Grange, near Sale, in March;, mw specimen. 



13. PORTHESIA LUTEA. 



Botiihijx lutea. Fab., Syst., Ent., p. 574; Arta.ia chri/sojiJdla. Wlk.. List Lep. Rrit. 

 Mus., xxxii., p. 334; Arlcua iolimtn, ^[eyr.. Trans. Rov. Soc. S. Aust., 

 XV., 1891, p. 194. 



£?. 23-32 mm. $. 32-3G mm. Head, thora.x, and abdomen orange-yeUow, 

 rather paler in $. Palpi pale-ochreous, apices fuscous. j^jitennae orange- 

 yellow, paler in ?, pectinations fuscous. Leg-s orange-yellow; tarsi pale-oehreous. 

 Forewings broadly triangular, more elongate in ?, costa moderately arched, apex 

 rounded, termen slightly oblique; orange-yellow, paler in ?; two whitish, slightly 

 denticulate, transverse lines, rarely obsolete; first from r^ costa to -j dorsum, 

 angled outwards above middle ; second from | costa to % dorsum outwardly curved, 

 slightly sinuate towards dorsum; cilia orange-yellow. Hindwings and cilia 

 orange-yello\\-. 



lobrota is a much darker form, the forewing-s ochreous-brown, the himhving's 

 fuscous. Intermediate examples occur. 



N.A.: Pt. Darwin; N.Q.: Cairns. Atherton, Stannary Hills. Dunk Tslan.l, 

 Ingham, Towns\-ille; Q. : Rockhampton, Gympie, Nambour, Brisbane, Stradbroke 

 Island. Also from New Guinea. 



Gen . 3 . l i ( ; k i; i a. n . gen . 



oXiyTipioq, sniiUl. 



Palpi minute. Antennae in c? short (less than J), strongly bipectinate to 

 apex. Posterior tibiae without middle s|)urs. Forewing's without areole, 9 

 absent (coincident with 8), 7, 8, 10 stalked. Id arising before 7. Hindwings with 

 3 and 4 connate or stalked, 5 separate, and 7 stalked, 8 anastomosing with cell 

 from before middle to J. 



A development of Aci/phag distinguished by the uuuute pal])i and Idss of 

 middle-spurs . 



14. Oliceria iiemicai-i.a. 



Orgyia hemicaUn. Low., Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust., xxix., 1905, p. 17li. 



<S. 18-20 mm. Head dark-fuscous; face oehreous. Antennae, thorax, and 

 abdomen dark-fuscous. Leg-s fuseous; tibiae and tarsi oehreous. Forewings tri- 



