490 



K0C1DIDJ5. 



Ab. 2. Hind wing whiter, the veins and terminal edge only tinged 

 with brown, the black points appearing on upperside. — W. Australia. 



Hah. Queensland, Brisbane {Turner), 1 cJ , 2 5 ; W. Australia, 

 Eoebourne {Lyell), 1 $ . Exp. 34-38 millim. 



1846. CirpMs leucosta. (Plate XCI. fig. 26.) 



Leucania leucosta, Lower, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W, xxvi. p. 64i (1901). 



J . Head and thorax deep purplish red ; abdomen pale reddish 

 brown, purplish red on ventral surface. Fore wing deep purple- 

 red irrorated with black and grey ; the costal edge Avhite ; traces of 

 an oblique antemedial line ; a white point on a small fuscous patch 

 at lower angle of cell ; traces of a curved postmedial series of dark 

 points on the veins and of a terminal series ; cilia with a fine pale 

 line at base. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area to 

 vein 2 suffused with purplish red ; cilia purplish red with a fine 

 pale line at base ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas 

 irrorated with purplish red, some black points on termen. 



Hah. Queensland, 1 cJ ; S. AusipaLiA. Exp. 34 millim. 



. Fore tibire of male moderately fringed with hair on 

 both sides ; the femora and coxce fringed with long 

 bair. 

 a^. Anal tufts of male very large ; fore wing without 



black point in lower angle of eell Icueospkeiii 



b'^. Anal tufts of male moderate; fore wing with 



black point in lower angle of cell lasiornera. 



*1847. Cirphis leucosplienia. 



Leucania leticosphetiia, Beth. Baker, A. M. N. H. (7) xv. p. 198 (1905). 



Head and thorax ochreous mixed with rufous and dark brown ; 

 tegulaj with strong dark medial line ; abdomen ochreous, slightly 

 tinged with purplish pink and irrorated with dark brown. Fore 



Fig. 152. — Cirphis kucosphcnia, cJ. [. 



wing ochreous thickly irrorated with fuscous ; the veins defined 

 by fine fuscous streaks, the interspaces also streaked with fuscous ; 

 an oblique black streak above inner margin before middle ; a short 



