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REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



£ with black markings of forewings much broader and more 

 confluent ; hind wings without spots in hindmarginal band. 



var. £ with black markings of forewings broadly suffused and 

 confluent, obscuring the groundcolour, which is reduced to a few 

 very small spots; in this specimen veins 9 and 10 of forewings 

 are entirely absent, and it is therefore probably to be regarded as 

 a diseased and abnormal form, 



Specially recognisable by the black base of cilia, and the yellow 

 hindwings. 



Tasmania ; four specimens (Australian Museum). 



91. Sjril. fuscinula y Walk. 

 (Arctia fuscinula, Walk. Bomb. 616 ; 1 Phaos vigens, Butl., 



Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1878, 383 ; P. nigriceps, ib. 383 ; P. 

 notatum, ib. 383 ; P. nexum, ib. 384 ; P. lacteatum, ib. 384.) 



£ £. 31-36 mm. Head whitish-ochreous or ochreous, some- 

 times fuscous-tinged. Palpi and antennae blackish. Thorax 

 whitish-ochreous, with more or less broad central aud lateral 

 blackish stripes from behind collar. Abdomen bright rosy, with 

 dorsal and lateral series of blackish spots, beneath whitish- 

 ochreous. Legs dark fuscous, femora rosy. Forewings triangular, 

 more elongate in £, costa almost straight, apex obtuse, hindmargin 

 rounded, in £ slightly, in £ moderately oblique ; whitish-ochreous, 

 sometimes fuscous-tinged ; markings black, very variable ; in 

 lightest specimens basal fourth of costa, a small discal spot, 

 an interrupted thick streak beneath central portion of lower 

 median vein, and a broadly interrupted streak above vein 1 black ; 

 in darkest specimens also with disc up to J wholly blackish, 

 reaching costa and inner margin at ^, and posterior and hind- 

 marginal irregular sometimes confluent blackish fascia ; all inter- 

 mediate forms : cilia wholly whitish-ochreous, rarely fuscous- 

 tinged. Hindwings light rosy ; a roundish black discal spot ; a 

 black hindmarginal band, sometimes entire, sometimes reduced to 

 three small bisected spots, with all intermediate forms : cilia 

 whitish-ochreous ; base rosy. 



