332 Dr. L. Melichar. 



Moreton Bay. 



Steht der Privesa exuta m. sehr nahe, welche Jedoch durch eine dunkle Quer- 

 binde am oberen Stirnrande gekennzeichnet ist. 



basalis Walk. 



Flatoides basalis IWalk., List of Hom., II, pag. 419, 27 (1851). 



Testaceus, sat latus; frons non carinatus; thorax ferrugineus; abdomen luteum; 

 pedes fulvi; alae anticae subfulvae, basi piceo trimaculatae; alae posticae subcinereae. 



Body testaceous, rather broad; head as broad as the ehest; crown extremely short, 

 channeied across, its breadth more than eight times its length; front flat, smooth, nearly 

 Square, notridged; epistoraa triangulär; ehest ferruginous; fore-chest arched, more than 

 twice the length of the crown; its breadth more than four times its length; middle-chest 

 much more than twice the length of the fore-chest; abdomen obconical, luteous, not 

 longer than the ehest; the lateral plates at the tip with black edges; lower middle ap- 

 pendage serrated; legs tawny; fore wings pale tawny; three pitchy spots near the base 

 of each; veins tawny very numerous; a now of rather long shghtly oblique parallel 

 cross-veins along the fore border; hind wings pale gray; veins brown. 



Length of the body 1 ^/^ lines, of the wings 6 lines. 



Patria ignota. 



Nach Kirby's Mittheilung als Ricaniide sehr zweifelhaft. 



bicincta Walk. 



Ricania bicincta Walk,, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool, X, pag. 153, 187(1870). 



9. Fulva, fronte tricarinata, prothorace tricarinato, pedibus testaceo-flavescen- 

 tibus, alis lurido-hyalinis, alis anticis margine fasciaque undulata abbreviata ferrugineis, 

 venis transversis plurimis, venis marginalibus furcatis. 



5. Tawny. Vertex short, nearly hidden by the prothorax; front twice as broad as 

 long, with parallel and slightly elevated sides, and with three keels, of which the pair 

 are indistinct. Prothorax arched, a curved keel on each side, joining the middle keel 

 near the fore border. Mesothorax with five keels; inner pair diverging, very near the 

 middle one in front; outer pair bent, abbreviated. Legs testaceous yellowish. Wings 

 vitreous, with a lurid tinge; veins tawny. Fore wings rounded, wholly ferruginous- 

 bordered, excepting a short space near the end of the costa; an undulating postmedial 

 ferruginous band, which is abbreviated near the interior border; transverse veins very 

 numerous, irregulär; marginal veins forked. Hind wings with three of the marginal 

 veins forked. 



Length of the body 3 lines, of the wings 9 lines. 



Morty. 



Mit trinotata Walk, verwandt, mit ziemHch engem Adernetz (Kirby). 



caliginosa Walk. 



Ricania caliginosa Walk., Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool., X, pag. 144, 167 (1870). 



g. Nigra, capitis marginibus rufis, fronte carinis tribus rufis, facie rufa unicarinata, 

 thorace rufo-marginato; prothorace unicarinato; mesothorace tricarinato, pedibus pallide 

 rufescentibus, alis nigricantibus, alis anticis venis longitudinalibus plurimis, lineis 

 quinque e venis transversis. 



