BY E. MEYRICK. 133 



(^9. 12-15 min. Head and thorax blue-black, thorax on sides 

 and posteriorly vermilion-red. Palpi blackish, base red. An- 

 tennae blue-black, fringed with scales to |, above this with suffused 

 white subapical band. Abdomen black, base reddish, with 

 slender white median and ante-apical rings. Legs blue-black, 

 ringed with white. Fore wings elongate, narrow, costa almost 

 straight, arched towards apex, apex obtuse, termen ver}' obliquely 

 rounded; vermilion-red, streaked with black in disc and between 

 veins, along dorsum with a thicker blackish streak : cilia purple- 

 blackish. Hind wings reddish-orange; posterior half dark fuscous, 

 sometimes produced anteriorly along termen; cilia dark fuscous. 



Sydney, New South Wales, from December to March; twenty- 

 four specimens. This curious insect is locally common amongst 

 Knnzea capitata (though I think this is probably not the food- 

 plant) in certain rocky places in the harbour, but I have never 

 received it from elsewhere. It flies in sunshine; and in repose 

 carries the posterior legs semierect above the back, and the antenna 

 erect and waving. I can suggest no reason for this display 

 except sexual; no other insect or natural object resembling it 

 occurs in the localities, so far as I could perceive. Walker's 

 locality reference is erroneous (see Wals. l.c). 



39. PSEUDAEGERIA Wals. 



Head smooth; tongue developed. Antennae 4, clothed above 

 with long rough fringe of dense scales from base to near apex, 

 basal joint without pecten. Labial palpi long, recurved, second 

 joint densely clothed with appressed scales, terminal joint as 

 long as second, slender, acute. Maxillary palpi rudimentary. 

 Abdomen rather broad, towards apex with projecting lateral 

 scales. Posterior tibia? smooth-scaled, with expansible whorls of 

 scales on origin of spurs. Forewings with \h furcate, 2 from 4, 

 3 from angle, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to apex, 11 from middle. Hind- 

 wings 1, elongate-ovate, cilia 1; 3 and 4 stalked, 5 parallel, 6 and 

 7 connate or stalked. 



Based on the following species only. In Lord Walsingham's 

 figure of the neuration of forewings vein 16 is erroneously given 

 as simple. 



