684 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, IV. 



Haips., founded on the hairiness of the middle tibiae of the male, 

 cannot be maintained, as the posterior legs of the species showing 

 this character correspond to those of different groups of species 

 with smooth middle tibiae. 



The type of Brachycola is ahsconditariaW\k.,ivom. Ceylon and 

 India. 



1. Fore- and hindwings with large circular discal blotches 86. cyclophora 

 Wings without circular blotches 2. 



2. Wings yellow So. glycydora. 



Wings not yellow 2. 



3. Wings grey-whitish, discal dots of forewings minute or 



obsolete 87. ohrinaria. 



Wings ochreous-whitish, discal dot of forewings con- 

 spicuous SS. porphyropis. 



Section i. Middle tibice and tarsi of $ clothed with long hairs. 



"^b. Brachycola glycydora,*' n.sp. 



(JQ. 27-32 mm. Read yellow, with a few reddish scales; face 

 whitish-ochreous, upper edge luscous. Palpi 2^; purple-reddish, 

 beneath whitish-ochreous. Antennae pale yellowish irrorated 

 with fuscous and reddish, towards apex grey; pectinations in (J 

 very long (10). Thorax and abdomen yellow with a few reddish 

 scales; abdomen with a pair of basal and one or two median 

 fuscous dots, sides and apex whitish. Legs whitish-ochreous 

 suffused, especially anterior pair, with purple. Forewings 

 triangular, costa gently arched, apex rounded, termen bowed, 

 oblique; yellow minutely dotted with reddish; three small dark 

 fuscous spots on costa at J, ^, and J, and three minute fuscous 

 dots between the last and apex; several dark fuscous spots in 

 basal part of disc; lines pale grey, suffused, containing dark 

 fuscous dots on veins; antemedian at i, ill-defined; median and 

 postmedian parallel, arising from costal spots, first outwardl}^ 

 oblique, and then bent inwards beneath costa towards dorsum; 

 subterminal and terminal series of dark fuscous dots between 



* yKvKvs, sweet; bcopov, a gift. 



