66 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



Palpi short, porrect, with loosely appressed scales beneath, not 

 hairy; terminal joint very short. Antennae of (J laminate with 

 fascicles of cilia, of 9 simple. Thorax not crested. Anterior 

 tibiae with a naked groove on underside, overlapped by a proxi- 

 mal tuft of hairs; posterior tibiae with two pairs of spurs. 

 Forewings with vein 2 from |^ to |, 3 from angle, 6 from middle 

 or beyond middle of areole, 7 from end of areole, 10 from areole. 

 Hindwings with 3 and 4 separate, 6 and 7 stalked, 8 appi-oximated 

 to near end of cell. 



In structure this resembles Phalera, Hb., but differs in the 

 smooth head and palpi, and in the origin of vein 2 of forewings 

 from nearer angle of cell. 



Type, Discophlehia catocalina, Feld. 



1. Hindwings with a broad white terminal band catocalina. 



Hindwings without a broad white terminal band. 2. 



2. Hindwings with termen narrowly white hloserodes. 



Hindwings with termen not white lucasiL 



21. DiSCOPHEBLIA CATOCALINA. 



[Probably from a supposed resemblance to the genus Catocala.^ 



Discophlehia catocalina, Feld., Reise Nov. pi. 96, f. 8. 



(J. 48 mm. Head grey, vertex whitish-grey. Palpi dark 

 fuscous mixed with grey. Antennae grey. Thorax grey, collar 

 dark grey. Abdomen dark fuscous; tuf t ochreous-whitish. Legs 

 dark grey mixed with whitish. Forewings elongate-oblong, costa 

 strongly arched, apex rounded-rectangular, termen slightly oblique, 

 rounded towards tornus; grey, near base suffused with whitish; 

 lines blackish; an irregularly waved line from ^ costa to § dorsum; 

 a short outwardly-oblique streak from costa at |; a pale circular 

 discal spot succeeds first line, and a larger spot, faintly outlined 

 in fuscous, is situated at apex of the oblique streak; a posterior 

 line from before mid-costa very obliquely outwards, obtusely bent 

 in disc to become transverse, and ending in dorsum at |; veins 

 beyond this streaked with blackish; cilia whitish-grey, intersected 

 by continuations of streaks on veins. Hindwings with termen 

 rounded; dark fuscous; a broad white terminal band narrowing to 



