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Genus PHYLLODES. 

 Phyllodes, Boisduval, Voy. Astrolabe, i. Lop. p. 246 (1832); Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 120; Walker, 



Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 1232. 

 Ischyja (part), Hiibner, Verz. bek. Scbmett. p. 265. 



Wings ample : forewing long ; costa much arched, apex very acute and falcate, 

 exterior margin very obliquely convex, posterior margin rounded near the base ; cell 

 extending two-fifths the length ; first subcostal emitted at one-half before end of the 

 cell, second at one-tenth, third emitted from end of the cell, trifid, joined to second 

 by a short cross spur at about one-half from its base, fourth at two-thirds fi-om the 

 base of third, fifth from below third at one-fifth beyond its base; discocellular 

 concave, bent at each end, radials from the angles ; middle median from angle close 

 to end of the cell, lower at one-half; submedian curved at the base and widely 

 separated from the posterior .margin : hindwing large, triangular ; costa long, apex 

 obtuse, exterior margin very oblique, convex ; cell extending one-third the length ; 

 two subcostals from end of the cell ; discocellular concave, radial from lower end ; 

 middle median from one-sixth before the end, lower at two-fifths ; submedian and 

 internal vein straight. Body stout, long ; palpi ascending, second joint very stout, 

 broad, convex in front, compactly pilose, adpressed, tliird joint very slender, clavate, 

 naked, about one-fourth length of second ; antennae simple, very long ; legs stout, 

 very long, pilose beneath, spui's long. 



Larva half looped, thick ; with sixteen pei'fect legs ; without prominences. Pupa 

 amongst leaves of food-plant. 



PHYLLODES MALIGERA (Plate 163, fig. 2, 2a). 

 Phyllodes maligera, Butler, Ent. Monthly Mag. 1883, p. 138. 



Forewing pale purpurescent cinereous-brown, sparsely speckled with cinereous- 

 white dots and strigee, the strigJB being most thickly disposed on the outer border ; 

 extending from the apex to middle of the disc is a nearly straight dusky speckled- 

 bordered white line, below which is a slight dusky-speckled lunular discal line, the 

 outer marginal area beyond being slightly ochreous ; basal area and the apex crossed 

 by waved chalybeous cyaneous fasciae ; a black punctiform orbicular spot, and an 

 olivescent-brown streaked recurved reniform mark, which has also lower white lined 

 streaks : hindwing blue-black, with a few cinereous strigte at the apex, and with a 

 large irregular-bordered rounded scarlet anal patch with a duplex white centre. 

 Thorax, head, palpi, and legs cinereous-brown ; abdomen black with slight bluish 

 dorsal segmental bands, apex cinereous-brown. 



Expanse b\ inches. 



Larva half looped ; with sixteen perfect legs ; without tubercular prominences. 

 Pupa stout, ferruginous-brown ; abdominal segments with black and speckled bands 

 beneath, lateral black stripes, and dorsal grey bands. 



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