246 ACALYPHES; ARCTESTHES. By L. B. Prout. 



bertha. D. bertha Swiiih. (= crvpsiphoena Turn.) (24 g). C'onsiderably niore variegated, in some specimens 



witli some reddish scales intermixed in the dark markings. Described from a single ?, from Mount Wellington. 

 Tasmania, which has the areole single, hence no comraent was made an the venational inconstancy; of 9 (J(J 

 which Turner examined later, .5 have the areole simple on both forewings, 2 double on both and 2 asyni- 

 metrical; of 10 $$, 9 have it simple on both wings while 1 is asymmetrical. All come from Tasmania. 



pericalles. D. pericalles Turn. Expanse 23 — 27 mm. Antenna ofo thickened and slightly laminate, the ciliation 



minute. Forewing fuscous, with brownish and «hitish irroration in part ; bands darker, the subbasal exeurved 

 the ante- and postmedian (forming the boundaries of the pale-centred median area), the former exeurved and 

 with its proximal edge twice indented and whitish, the latter with a small tooth outward before the middle 

 and a large bidentate prominence in the outer area very weakly marked. Hind\\ing orange, in the -j witli 

 3 fine dark lines (which are strongly angled in the middle) and a dark terminal band, in the $ with only 

 the band and this much narrower. Underside ochreous, tlie ,^ forewing with a postmedian fascia which ex- 

 jjands strongly behind. joining a terminal fascia. hindwing with a postmedian line and terminal fascia. these 

 markings more rudimentary in the $. Cradle Mountain, Tasmania, only one pair known. 



4. Genus: Acalyphes Tum. 



A curious development of Dasyuris and Dasysternica, differing in the venation: Forewing \\\i\\ areole 

 open, the Ist. subcostal failing to touch the stalk of the succeeding ones; liindwing with cell very long (%), 

 2nd. subcostal not or only very sliortly stalked. Erected for a single Tasmanian species. 



pkUorites. A. philorites Tum,. Expanse 22 — 24 mm. Palpus twice diameter of eye. Antenna of q simjjle. Fore- 



wing with termen scarcely oblique; fuscous, in the disc \\ith some wliitish irroration: an ill-defined whitish 

 subbasal spot; lines dark fuscous, the antemedian some\\'hat dentate, suffusedly margined with white, the 

 median angled outward in the middle, sometimes indistinct, the i^ostmedian irregularly dentate, with a strong 

 median tooth outward, edged distally by a broad white line; suffused dark subterminal spots at the radials 

 and near tornus. Hindwing strongly rounded; fuscous, disc in C" suffused with whitish-ochreous; a strong 

 white or whitish postmedian line. strongly angled in the middle and again at tornus. Also founded on one pair 

 from Cradle Mountain. 



5. Genus: Arctestlies Mcyr. 



This genus has been sunk to the Palaearctic Lythi-ia Hbn. (see Vol. 4. p. 15.5) but should. I think, be 

 resuscitated. the connection being by no means so dose as has been assumcd. It eonsists of a few species 

 which resemble Notoreas in all characters except the areole, which is here always simple. Pectinations much 

 shorter than in Lythria. Scaling normal (in Lyfhria predominantly long, hair-like). Fringes long (in Lythria 

 shortish-moderate). Venation more nornially Larentiid tlian in that genus: areole ample, with Ist. subcostal 

 well before its end, Ist. median of both wings arising near 3rd. radial. Ist. discocellular of forewing undeve- 

 loped (Ist. radial connate, or almost connate. with subcostal staik), cell of hindwing decidedly less than half 

 the wing-length. Structure of the genitalia entirely different: Saccus normal; uncus well developed; no pro- 

 jections anally of the tegumental ring: valves more normally shaped, ""anellus lobes" (?) develojjed. Endemie 

 in New Zealand. Genotype: capapyrrha Bufl. 



«'»■'«■ A. siris Huds. (24 h). Small, brightly coloured, median band of forewing grey, e x t r e m e 1 y ang- 



led distally, hindwing orange, with the base and a broad distal border grey. the jDostmedian line acutely 

 angled. Old Man Range, Central Otago. at aboiit 4000 feet. 



ratojji/n-ha. A. catapyrrHa Bull. (= euclidiata Huds., nee Guen.) (24 f). Still smaller. the wings relatively more 



elongate. It bears a good deal of superficial resemblance. both on the upper- and on the gay and variegated 



underside,' to the Australian Dasyuris e.uclidiafa Guen. and was formerly confused with it. but, apart from 



the structural distinctions, it differs in lacking the antemedian band of the underside of the forewing and 



in the red or reddish colouring especially on the costal and distal borders of that of the hindwing. Widely 



jasviatu. distributed in open country and often iilentiful. — ab. fasciata riov. has the median area of the forewing entirely 



kaikouren- blackened ; according to Philpott it only occurs in mountain localities. — kaikourensis subsp. nov. According 



*''''''■ to Hudson (1928) "a local variety occurs in the Kaikoura Mountains, having the upperside of the iiindwing 



bright orange"'. 



chrysupcda. A. chrysopeda Meyr. (24 h), restricted, so far as is known, to Mount Arthur at altitudes of 3000 to 4000 



feet and the Tararua Mountains, is on the whole less small, has the antennal pectinations shorter and is ab- 

 undantly distinct in the orange bands (or, correctly spcaking, ground-eoloiu') of the forewing. dift'erently 

 shaped postmedian and other details. A curious venational irregularity occurs in a specimen in my coUection: 



