a88 HEPIALID^. 



Genus CHARAGIA. Walker: vii. 1569 (1856). 



1332. Charagia virescens. 



Hepiahis virescens. Double: Dieffenbach's New Zealand, i, 284. 114 



(1843)-. 

 Charagia virescens. Walker: vii. 1569 (1856^ 



Scott : Trans. Ent. Soc, N. S. W., ii. p. 29 (1869). 



Butler: P. Z. S., Lond., 1877, p. 380. 



Gossett: Trans. N. Z. Inst., 1879, p. 347 (larva). 



a. New Zealand. 



1333. Charagia arg37rographa. 



Charagia argyrographa. Felder : Reise Nov. Lep., pi. 81, f. 2 (1868). 

 a. New Holland (2). b. King George's Sound (2). 



1334. Charagia pomalis. n. sp. PI. viii. f. 3. 



<J Pale apple green, thorax with a yellowish grey band in front 

 and with some similarly coloured hairs overlapping the base of fore- 

 wings ; hind-wings and abdomen paler than fore-wings and thorax ; 

 fore-wings with a discal transverse thin macular ochreous grey band, 

 reaching neither the costa nor the hinder margin ; hind-wings with 

 some whitish hairs towards the base ; wings below of a uniform pale 

 greenish grey with the apical portions strongly tinged with yellow. 



Expanse of wings 2 j^ inches. 

 a. Queensland (type). 



This insect is in the B. M. without name ; it is allied to nothing I 

 know of. 



1335. Charagia lignivora. 



Hepialtis lignivorus, Lewin : Prodr. Ent., 17, pi. 16 (1805), 



Boisd. : Voy. de I'Astrolabe, i. Lep., p. 234 (1832). 



Meyrick : Proc. Linn. Soc, N. S. W., 1890, p. 1129. 



Charagia lignivora. Walker: vii. 1570 (1856). 



Scott : Trans. Ent. Soc, N. S. W.-, ii. p. 29 (1869). 



Charagia lewinii. Walker: vii. 1570 (1856). 



Scott: Trans. Ent. Soc, N. S. W., ii. p. 30 (1869). 



Type {lewinii). Sydney, in B. M. 



a. Queensland (2). b. New South Wales. 



1336. Charagia lamberti. 



Charagia lamberti. Walker: vii. 157 1 (1S56). 

 Type. New Holland, in B. M. 

 a. Australia. 



1337. Charagia rubroviridans, 



Charagia 7-ubroviridans. Walker: vii. 1570 (1856). 

 Type. New Zealand, in B. M. 

 a. Queensland. 



1338. Charagia dulcis. n. sp. 



S Thorax and fore-wings grass green, abdomen and hind-wings 

 red, fore-wings with two discal transverse white bands, stopping 



