750 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



Q. Wholly whitish-ochreous ; wings minute, aborted ; legs short, 

 stout, well-developed. 



Larva wholly black ; hairs black, those covering segmental 

 incisions brownish-ochreous. Feeds on Senecio bellidioides, in 

 January. Cocoon rather slight. 



Mount Arthur (4,000 feet), New Zealand ; five specimens taken 

 and bred in January. 



89. Met. Huttonii, Butl. 



(Phaos Huttonii, Butl. Cist. Ent. ii, 487.) 



£. 29 mm. Differs from M. erichrysa only as follows : Head 

 and thorax with some yellow-whitish hairs. Forewings with vein 

 10 connected with 9 at a point above 7 ; markings whitish- 

 ochreous ; no costal streak ; a bright crimson subcostal streak from 

 base to \. Hindwings yellow, towards base mixed with blackish ; 

 spots in hindmarginal band reduced, supra-anal spot moderate, 

 triangular, not reaching edge of band. 



Lake Wakatipu, New Zealand ; discovered by Prof. Hutton, 

 who also observed the apterous (j>. 



31. Spilosoma, Stph. 



Tongue rudimentary. Antennae in £ moderately bipectinated 

 throughout, in £ also shortly bipectinated or serrate. Palpi 

 moderate, porrected, with appressed scales or hairy beneath, 

 terminal joint rather short, somewhat pointed. Thorax and 

 femora densely hairy beneath. Anterior tibiae with more or less 

 developed spine beneath and apical hook. Forewings with vein 2 

 from middle, 6 from near or rarely out of 9, 7 and 8 out of 9, 10 

 out of 9 below 7. Hindwings with veins 4 and 5 rarely short- 

 stalked, 6 and 7 from a point or approximated at base, 8 from ^. 



The dark markings of all the species of this genus are very 

 variable. 



