Old World Lymantriidx in the National Collection. 447 



Anthela ocellata. 



Darala ocellata, Walker, iv, 887 (1855). 

 Ommatoptera tetrophthalnia, Herr.-Schaff., Ausser-Eur. 

 Schmett., f. 506, 507 (1856). 



7 ^, 12 $, Australia, including the type?. 

 It is a somewhat variable insect. 



Anthela denticulata. 



Tcara denticulata, Newman, Trans. Ent. Soc, 1856, p. 283. 



Darala basigera, Walker, xxxii, 372 (1865). 



Darala undulata, Felder, Reise Nov., pi. 98, f. 11 (1868). 



1 $, Adelaide (type). 1 ^, Melbourne. 

 Anthela ostra, nov. 



^ . Antenna; black, shafts white ; palpi, frons, head, and shoulders 

 briglit ochreous ; thorax blackish-brown ; wings dark black ; fore- 

 wings with a minute spot in the cell, a round spot at end, both yellow,, 

 as also are the costal margin, the outer half of cilia, and a sub- 

 marginal row of dots ; hind-wings with the entire cilia yellow, 

 and a row of larger spots near the margin, and extending into it ;, 

 abdomen dark dull orange ; under-side of body and legs bright 

 ochreous ; fore-wings yellow, with the reniform distinct, the disc 

 blackish, intersected by a yellow transverse line, the outer margin 

 slightly suffused with black ; hind-wings deep black, with a yellow 

 cell spot, and broad marginal yellow border. 



Expanse of wings 1^^ inches. 



Hah. Adelaide River. 



Anthela unisigna, nov. 



(J. Antennaj blackish-brown, shafts whitisli ; palpi and frons 

 blackish-brown ; thorax covered with dark briglit chestnut-brown 

 hairs, variegated with pure chestnut colour ; abdomen pale crimson, 

 anal tuft white ; fore-wings pale ochreous-grey ; a transverse erect 

 and straight brownish-grey band beyond the middle, in which is a 

 prominent pure white spot ringed with blackish-brown at the end of 

 the cell, another more attenuated similar band in the disc, followed 

 rather closely by a broad brownish-grey marginal band ; hind-wings 

 paler, nearly white, with a similar broad outer marginal band ; 

 under-side of wings white, w^th the first band of fore-wings and 

 cell spot, the cell itself suffused with ochreous ; hind-wings with a, 



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