790 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



ochreous except at apex above, anal segment with basal whitish- 

 ochreous ring. Legs blue-black, anterior coxae white. Forewings 

 extremely elongate-triangular, costa sinuate, apex rounded, hind- 

 margin very obliquely rounded ; blackish-fuscous ; a hyaline streak 

 beneath costa from near base to -J, acutely attenuated posteriorly ; 

 a hyaline median streak from near base, gradually dilated and 

 becoming obsolete beyond middle of disc : cilia dark fuscous. 

 Hind wings elongate-ovate ; almost hyaline, very thinly scaled; 

 an irregular suffused dark fuscous hindmarginal fascia, forming a 

 blotch at apex, very narrow in middle, somewhat dilated towards 

 anal angle ; cilia dark fuscous ; veins 4 and 5 separate. 



Sydney, New South Wales ; Fernshaw, Victoria ; Deloraine, 

 Tasmania ; Mount Lofty, South Australia ; in November and 

 December, not uncommon. Mr. Masters informs me that it 

 especially frequents the flowers of Ango-plwra. 



147. Hest. rujiventris, Walk. 



(Procris rujiventris, Walk. Bomb. 110, Butl. 111. Het. I, 15 

 pi. VI, 7.) 



(J £. 17-18 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, and legs 

 blackish. Abdomen orange, base and apex blackish. Forewings 

 elongate-triangular, costa almost straight, apex rounded, hind- 

 margin very obliquely rounded ; wholly blackish. Hindwings 

 oblong-ovate ; wholly blackish, disc thinly scaled ; veins 4 and 5 

 from a point or short -stalked. 



Albany, West Australia ; four specimens (Coll. Macleay). 



43. Procris, F. 



Tongue well-developed. Antennas in £ bipectinated, apex 

 simple, sometimes considerably thickened (not in Australian 

 species), in (|> rather thick throughout. Palpi short, porrected, 

 filiform, pointed. Posterior tibiae without middle-spurs. Fore- 

 wings with vein 1 furcate at base, 2 from about |, all veins separate. 

 Hindwings with vein 1 c present, 4 absent or present, 3 rarely 

 stalked with 4 or 5, 6 and 7 approximated at base, 8 anastomosing 

 with upper margin of cell from before to beyond middle. 



