428 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTBALIAl!*^ MICEO-LEPIDOPTEEA, 



(3^ . 34-36 mm. Head deep ochreous-yellow, face rosy- tiuged. 

 Palpi with tuft of second joint dense, porrected, as long as 

 terminal joint ; second joint and tuft deep ochreous-yellow, paler 

 internally, at base white beneath, tuft towards extremity or 

 wholly carmine-tinged ; terminal joint pale ochreous, anterior 

 edge dark carmine-fuscous. Antennae whitish-ochreous. Thorax 

 varying from ochreous to carmine- pink. Abdomen whitish- 

 ochreous, anal tuft yellowish-ochreous. Legs carmine-pink, 

 anterior and middle tibiae and tarsi suffused above with dark 

 fuscous except at apex of tarsal joints, posterior tibiae pale yellow. 

 Eorewings broad, costa very strongly arched, especially towards 

 apex, apex very strongly produced and falcate, hindmargin very 

 obliquely rounded beneath ; golden-yellow, basal two-thirds 

 generally more or less suffused with carmine-pink ; costa and 

 inner margin slenderly carmine-pink throughout ; a slender, 

 rather upwardly-convex, fuscous-carmine longitudinal line rather 

 above middle from near base to apex, most distinct beyond middle ; 

 an indistinct transverse crescentic carinine-pink mark in disc at 

 f , its apex meeting the longitudinal line : cilia deep dull carmine- 

 pink, suffused with dark grey round apex. Hindwings elongate- 

 ovate, hindmargin slightly sinuate ; pale yellow, rather deeper 

 posteriorly; cilia whitish-yellow, becoming carmine-pink round 

 apex. 



A handsome and conspicuous insect, distinguished from the 

 other large yellow species of the genus by the peculiar strongly- 

 falcate apex of the f orewings, and the longitudinal line. 



Apparently not common, but sluggish in habit, as are most of 

 the genus ; occurs at Blackheath on the Blue Mountains (3,500 

 feet), and near Melbourne, in November ; also on Mount Lofty 

 B-ange, South Australia. 



2. Palp, lamlertella, Wing. 

 Maxima, alis ant. margine postico rotundato, roseis, nitidis, 

 linea mediana plicaque submediana dilute flavis j post, dilute 

 flavis, apice roseo. 



