6o Lloyd's natural history. 



" Male.— Brown. Head pale yellow, with a brown dot on each 

 side of the vertex and with a third in front. Proboscis black. 

 Palpi pale yellow, porrect, rhorter than the breadth of the 

 head ; third joint brown, elongate-conical, less than half the 

 length of the second. Thorax on each side, pectus and legs 

 yellow. Abdomen with a luteous band on the hind border of 

 each segment. Fore-wings with three small pale yellow marks 

 at the base, and with three incomplete pale yellow bands; 

 first band abbreviated at each end ; second composed of two 

 widely separated spots ; third much broader than the others, 

 undulating along each side, not joining the costa nor the in- 

 terior angle. Hind-wings with a very broad luteous band, which 

 is abbreviated towards the costa, and occupies nearly all the 

 outer half of the interior border. Length of the body, 7 lines ; 

 of the wings, 20 lines. 



"North Australia." {Walker.) 



GENUS AGARISTA. 

 Agarista^ Leach, Zool. Misc. i. p. 37 (18 15). 



The type of this genus, here figured, has strongly arched 

 fore-wings, with the hind margin rounded. The abdomen is 

 rather slender, and is about as long as the hind-wings, which 

 are slightly oblong. The legs are of moderate length, and the 

 front femora are furnished with a strong brush of hair. It is 

 an Australian Moth ) but the bulk of the Australian Agaris- 

 tidce belong to the allied genus Phahenoides, Lewin, which 

 includes smaller Moths, rarely exceeding an inch and a half 

 in expanse, with the costa of the fore-wings nearly straight to 

 the tip, and the hind margin gradually curved ; the hind-\ungs 

 are short and rounded. Most of the species are brown, with 

 yellow spots and markings, and often more or less varied with 

 pale blue. The larva of the typical species, P. glycince, Lewin, 



