676 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTER-A, IV., 



Gen. 11. Tr YGODES. 



Trygodes Gn., Lep. ix. p. 426; Hmps., Moths Ind. iii. p.460 : 

 Antitrygodes Warr., Nov. Zool. 1895, p. 90. 



Face smooth. Tongue well-developed. Palpi slender, short, 

 ascending, reaching slightly beyond frons; terminal joint very 

 small. Antennae of $ laminate or shortly pectinate, thelaminse 

 or pectinations ending in tufts of hair on three penultimate seg- 

 ments. Posterior tibiae of $ without spurs. Forewings with 7, 

 8, 9, 10 stalked, and 11 connected with their common stalk to 

 form a single areole, or 10 anastomosing first with 11 and then 

 with 9 to form a double areole. Hindwings with 5 from about 

 middle of cell, 6 and 7 sej>arate. 



Type, T. muscivaria H. Sch., from South America. A small 

 genus found in the tropical regions of both hemispheres. It 

 shows some variability in details of structure. The single areole 

 is found in T. divisaria, the peculiar double areole in T. catacissa. 



Section i. Posterior' tibice in ^ strongly dilated ivith a tuft of long 

 Jiairs from itmer side of base. 



76. Trygodes divisaria. 



Macaria divisaria Wlk., Brit. Mus. Cat. xxiii. p. 9 27: Trygodes 

 agrata F. & R., Reise Nov. pi. 128, fig. 19 : Trygodes divisaria 

 Hmps., Moths. Ind. iii. p.460. 



(J. 40 mm. Face purple-fuscous, lower edge white; fillet white; 

 crown narrowly dark fuscous. Antennae fuscous, towards base 

 whitish. Thorax white with a few dull purple scales; anterior 

 edge broadly dull purple. Abdomen white; lateral tufts ochreous- 

 whitish. Legs ochreous-whitish; anterior pair fuscous anteriorly; 

 posterior pair white. Forewings triangular, costa nearly straight, 

 arched towards apex, termen bowed, oblique, wavy; whitish with 

 sparsely scattered dark fuscous scales; costal edge and a subcostal 

 streak sufiPusedly reddish-violet; several large dark green spots 

 edged with reddish-fuscous in basal half of disc; a small spot in 

 cell near base and a larger between this and dorsum, a large 

 squarish blotch in end of cell, followed by two smaller blotches, 



