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ANTHRACIN^. 



Ginus Hyperalonia, Rondani. 



White's DunniHcrtpt. — "Tabic ' of the Aitstralioii Spccien 

 of Hjfpera Ionia. 



1. Wings not spotted. 2. 

 Wings spotted. :>. 



2. Abdomen black, apex silvery; wings blackish witli 



base yellow, tips hyaline. funesta, Walker. 



3. Abdomen black with golden or white bands near the 



base; wings spotted with foremargins yellow. 



hombyliformis, Macl. 

 = Ej;op)osopu pimctipeiDiis, Macq. 

 Wings with foremargins brown, with small spots 



below and towards base. silvauus, Fabr. 



All the above were described under the genus Anthrax. 

 Hyperalonia argenticincta. Bigot, is unknown to me, but I 

 suggest that it is probably the same as H. honibyliforviis, 

 Macleay." 



Obfieri-atioiis. — //. fnuexfa, Walker, is the same as my 

 H. fintynis, Fabricius, but from White's key this is scarcely 

 apparent. App.irently Bibio t^yliHuins, Fabricius, was only 

 known to White fiom the description, and he^ followed 

 Walker's identification for this species, or possibly he took 

 his chai'acters in the key from the original description; I 

 have already associated the species with the genus Covtptoxia, 

 and do not see any reason to alter my opinion. 



The distinguishing characters of the four described 

 species as recognised by me are as follows: — 



H. satyrus, Fabricius. A black species with only three 

 pairs of white spots at the apex of the abdomen. A closely 

 allied species (apparently undescribed) has an extra pair 

 near the base. 



//. bombytifoniiix, Macleay. A species with four fuscous 

 spots on the wing. This is the only large species known 

 to mc with this character; the abdomen varies in the amount 

 of silvery tomentum on it so that some unusually light forms 

 may be mistaken for new species. 



H. ciiifjnlata, v.d. Wulp. A specirs tliat h;is the wings 

 with the anterior border for two-thirds the le:i.;rth, and an 

 isolated blotch at apex of the second basal cell, fuscous. 



//. ninnatifafieiata, IMacquart. .\ s;peci:>: with the -ame 

 wing character as H. cingidata, v.d. Wulji. except that the 

 whole of the second basal cell and tlv- ai)ex of Ihj discal cell 

 an- fused with fuscus. 



