384 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, vi., 



Gen. 33. Pr^sos. 



Frcesos Wlk., Cat. Brit. Mus., ii., p.409(1854). Tigridoptera 

 H.-Sch., (datel); Meyr., Proc. Linn. 8oc. N.S.Wales, 1891, p.631. 

 Craspedosis Butl., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1876, p. 767. 



Face smooth or shortly rough-haired, somewhat projecting, 

 without tuft. Tongue well-developed. Palpi moderate, porrect 

 or ascending; first joint with long, rough hairs: second joint 

 thickened with smoothly appressed scales: terminal joint short. 

 Antennae of $ simple, ciliated. Thorax not crested; beneath 

 more or less hairy. Femora smooth; posterior tibise of (J not 

 dilated. Forewings in ^ with fovea present, but usually imper- 

 fectly developed; 10 and 11 long-stalked or coincident, their 

 common stalk connected by a bar with 9. Hindwings with 8 

 diverging from cell before middle. 



Type, P. mariana White. Mr. Meyrick states that 10 arises 

 out of 11 and runs into 9, and this appears sometimes to be the 

 case; but comparison with the species in which 10 and 11 are 

 long-stalked shows, beyond doubt, that what he has mistaken 

 for vein 10 is merely a connecting bar. J see no reason to 

 separate the following species. The fovea is always present, but 

 only in F. leucoslicta and F. caladela is it well-developed; in the 

 former, it is found partly developed in the 9 also, an unusual 

 circumstance. In F. mariana, vein 12 gives off two or three, 

 short, accessory spurs towards costa, probably only a mechanical 

 adaptation to its large size, but comparable with the accessory, 

 costal veinlets present in the hindwings of many Latiioeartijndij^. 



1. Both Mings similarly spotted with blackish "2. 



Wings not spotted with blackish .. 3. 



2. Wings with a terminal series of blackish spots matutinata. 



Wings with termen not spotted rotiuidata. 



3. Hindwings yellowish, with black markings 4. 



Hindwings grey, with central, white blotch Itucosticfa. 



4. Hindwings with base fuscous mariana. 



Hindwings with base yellow catadda. 



119. Pr^SOS MATUTINATA. 



Pancethia matutinata Wlk., Cat. Brit. Mus., xxiv., p. 1109. 

 Tiyridoptera matutinata Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 

 1891, p.632. 



