802 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



with vein 2 from §, 7 and 8 out of 9, 10 out of 9 near base. 

 Hindwings with vein 6 and 7 from a point, 8 from middle. 



Should be placed between Areas and Deiopeia. 



172. Phragm. inter rupta, L. 



£, 41 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax pale whitish-ochreous, 

 rosy-tinged ; face dark fuscous ; thorax with a median longitudinal 

 fusiform blackish stripe throughout. Antennae whitish. Abdomen 

 light rosy-crimson above, dark grey beneath, with dorsal and 

 lateral series of small round black spots. Legs black, coxse and 

 femora ochreous-yellow above. Forewings very elongate-trian- 

 gular, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, hindmargin obliquely 

 rounded ; whitish-ochreous, rosy-tinged ; a thick black streak, 

 attenuated anteriorly, beneath lower median vein from near base 

 to 5, apex obliquely truncate above ; two black dots on transverse 

 vein near extremities ; a narrow black longitudinal streak from 

 close beyond lower dot, posteriorly somewhat bent upwards to 

 hindmargin below apex : cilia whitish-ochreous, rosy-tinged. Hind- 

 wings and cilia grey, thinly scaled. 



Cairns, Queensland; one specimen (Coll. Macleay). Also from 

 India. 



