308 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, vi., 



Gen. 2. Z e h e b a. 



Zeheha Moore, Lep. Ceyl., iii., p. 468: Hmps., Moths Ind., iii., 

 p. 200. 



Head smootli. Tongue well-developed. Palpi moderate, 

 porrect, shortly rough-scaled; terminal joint short. Antennae of 

 (J simple, shortly ciliated. Thorax not crested; beneath hairy. 

 Femora smooth ; posterior tibise of $ dilated, with internal 

 groove and tuft and abbreviated spurs. Forewings strongly 

 falcate at apex and angulated in middle: in ^ with well-marked 

 fovea; 10 and 11 coincident, anastomosing with 12 (or free: 

 Hampson). Hindwings with cell short (about |); 8 approxi- 

 mated nearly to end of cell. 



One of the Boarmia-^YOU^. Type, Z. lucidata Wlk 



2. Zeheba lucidata. 



Macaria{]) lucidata Wlk., Cat. Brit. Mus., xxvi., p. 1651. 

 Evarsia tnarfjiiiata Wlk., Cat. Brit. Mus., xxxv., 1561; Moore, 

 Lep. Ceyl., iii., PI. 205, f.8. Zeheba aureata Moore, Lep. Atk., 

 p. 263. Z. lucidata Hmps., Moths Ind., iii., p. 201. 



(J. 44 nun. Head ochreous-whitish; face with a transverse 

 median brown bar. Palpi 1; brown, towards base ochreous- 

 whitish. Antenn?e ochreous-whitish speckled with brown; cilia- 

 tions in ^ |. Thorax and abdomen ochreous-whitish. Legs 

 ochreous-whitish ; anterior pair with some brown irroration. 

 Forewings elongate-triangular, costa straight to near apex, there 

 strongly arched, apex strongly but obtusely falcate, termen 

 longer than dorsum, strongly oblique, with a strong tooth on 

 vein 4; ochreous-whitish, thinly scaled, and translucent: more 

 densely scaled at base; a thick brown costal line from base to |, 

 and a sliort bar about middle, with some fine brown strigulai 

 before and beyond it; an oblique brown line from | costa to 

 near base of dorsum; an obscure brown spot in disc at end of 

 cell; a brown spot on mid-dorsum, with some brown irroration 

 between it and costal bar; a fine, brown, outwardly curved, wavy 

 line from | costa to dorsum before tornus; beyond this, terminal 

 area i.s more densely scaled with some brownish suffusion and 

 strigula?, and a short brownish line from dorsum; cilia ochreous- 



