DA9TGASTKR. 4/7 



Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia pale tinged with brown or 

 rufous ; the underside white, slightly tinged with purplish red and 

 irrorated with fuscous ; a black discoidal spot and curved post- 

 medial line, the area beyond it suffused with fuscous. 



Ab. 1. leucanioides. Fore wing with the markings less distinct, 

 the reniform without the white streak below it and with a fuscous 

 patch beyond it. 



Ab. 2. facilis. Much more grey-brown and with hardly any 

 rufous tinge. 



Ab. 3. Suffused with deep fuscous. 



Hub. N. S. Wales, Moreton Bay (Digr/Jes), 1 5 ; Vfctoria, 

 Gisborne {Lyell), 1 c? ; S. Australia, Parkside (Low^r), 1 (^ , 1 $ ; 

 Tasmania, Hobart {Allport, Lyell), 7 6, 1 $ , type fac'dis. Exp. 

 38-40 millim. 



1826. Dasygaster epundoides. (Plate XCI. fig. 15.) 



Dasygaster epundoides, Gnen. Noct. i. p. 202 (1852). 

 Dasi/gaster pimctivena, Wlk. ix. 242 (1856). 



5 . Head and thorax black slightly mixed with grey ; antennae 

 at base and tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen fuscous irrorated 

 with grey. Fore wing fuscous black, with some whitish irroration, 

 especially on basal, costal, and inner areas ; subbasal line repre- 

 sented by a black striga from costa ; anteraedial line indistinct, 

 oblique, waved, defined by greyish on inner side ; claviform a small 

 black mark ; orbicular a black point ; reniform very ill-defined and 

 small, formed of black and white scales ; postmedial lino indistinct, 

 bent outwards and defined by wliitc on outer side below costa, then 

 oblique, dentate, a series of white points on costa beyond it ; sub- 

 terminal line represented by a series of white points on short black 

 streaks, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; 

 a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown, 

 greyish towards base and costa, the cilia whitish at tips; the under- 

 side white irrorated with black ; a black discoidal lunnle, the 

 terminal area black. 



Hah. Tasmania, 1 $ iy\)G punctivena. Exp. AQ miWxva. 



Sect. III. Antennae of male with cilia and bristles; claspers very elongate ; 

 liincl wing witii the terraen strongly excised from apex to vein 4. 



] 827. Dasygaster reversa. 



Aledn. reversa, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. G, pi. 144. f. 5 (1884); TTinpsn. 

 Moths Inrl. ii. p. 278. 



Head iind thorax pale ochreous mixed Avith fuscous ; tegulyc with 

 fu.scous lines at middle and near tips; patagia with some black 

 scales on upper edge ; tarsi with pale rings. Fore wing pale 

 ochreous, tinged with purplish red and irrorated with fuscous ; 



