METOPSILUS. 25 



MIAVIA JOHANNA. 



{Plate C, Fig. 3.) 



Theretra Johanna^ Kirby, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1877, 



p. 241 ; WaterlioLise, Aid Ident. Ins. i., pi. 38 (188 1). 



This handsome species comes from Brisbane, and expands 

 two inches and a quarter. 



Fore-wings purplish-brown, with a broad darker central 

 stripe bifurcated on the costa. A broad sub-marginal band of 

 the same colour, the lower part interrupted by a large pinkish 

 spot. Towards the base are some short dusky markings. 

 Hind-wings red, with brown hind margins. Under side 

 yellowish-red, the hind margins dusky, and a dusky stripe 

 across the hind-wings, and three dusky marks on the outer 

 half of the costa. Thorax and abdomen rosy-grey, the 

 sides of the latter with four red belts, broadly interrupted in 

 the middle above ; and with a patch of silvery scales, mixed 

 with reddish ones, on each side, giving the appearance of four 

 elongated silvery spots on each side of the hinder part of the 

 abdomen. 



GENUS METOPSILUS. 



Metopsilus^ Duncan, in Jardine's Nat. Libr. Brit. Moths, p. 154 

 (1836) ; Kirby, Syn. Cat. Lepid. Heter. i., p. 660 (1892). 

 Pcrgesa^ Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. viii. p. 149 

 (1856); Moore, Lepid. Ceylon, ii., p. 22 (1882). 



The body in this genus is moderately stout, and rather short. 

 The antenuDe are slender, filiform, and slightly longer than 

 the thorax. Wings rather long, moderately broad, very slightly 

 waved on the hind margin. Fore-wings not very acute, with 

 the hind margin rather oblique, and the upper part very 

 slightly concave. The hind-wings are rounded at the tips. 



The larva is without the usual horn on the back, which is 

 %0 conspicuous in most of the larvce of the S^hi/igidce, 



