252 XANTHORHOE. By L. B. Prout. 



metoporhia. X. metoporina Turn. Founded on 2 $$ collected on Mount Kosciusko. 2 Marcli 1912. 32 mm. Palpus 



2' [. Forewing broadly triangulär, termen straight, oblique, crenulate; brown-whitish ; markings fuscous; 

 median band moderately broad, proximal edge excurved. ill-defined. distal edge with a large acutely-angled 

 central iirojection; finely waved iines precede and foUow the band. Hindwing with termen gently rounded, 

 crenulate; pale grey, with indications of fine Iines towards hindmargin, (Abridged from Turner,) 



vicwsata. X. vicissata Gii.en. (25 e), Pectinations shortish -moderate. Recognizable at once by the yellow hind- 



wing, browii-bordered but otheiwise devoid of markings, and the straight postraedian of the forewing, X^ew 

 South Wales to Tasmania, The larva when newly hatched, is slender, glaucous green, Later (when ^/g inch 

 long) stumpy, the segmentation distinct; fuscous, with black dorsal line, cinereous subdorsal (double) and 

 lateral Iines, the latter black-edged above; it hibernates and grows very slowly. 



heliacarki. X. heliacaria Guen,. (25 e), Generally smaller; forewing with more \\hite in the median band, the post- 



median strongly angled; hindwing with more markings than in vicissata. Described from Tasmania, extending 

 to Victoria and on Mount Kosciusko. 



■pyrrhoha- X. pyrrhobaplies T»m. ,^. 34 mm. Palpus 21/2- Pectinations 10. Forewing broad, apex subrectangular, 



lihes. termen slightly oblique; very pale reddish (in an aberration grey, with the reddish suffusion almost confined 

 to basal patch), costal edge rather deeper red; median band moderately broad anteriorly, much narrower post- 

 eriorly, its edges formed respectively of 2 and 3 dark Iines with their interspaces in part red, the antemedians 

 slightly excurved, the postmedians angled before middle; cell-dot blackish; a crenulate subterminal shade; 

 paired terminal dots, Hindwing rounded; grey-whitish, with fine dark Iines from costa; terminal dots as on 

 forewing. Underside pale reddish, with cell-dots and interrupted postmedian line. Moina, Tasmania, in January, 

 The differently shaped wings obviates any possible confusion with Acodia pauper. (Abridged from Turner.) 



aviblychron. X. aitiblychroa T^r/i. Smaller (2(5 — 28 mm). Pectinations shorter ((3), with apical 1 3 simple. Forewing 



elongate, with pointed apex and oblique, nearly straight termen; brown-whitish. with fuscous irroration and 

 markings; costa with numerous short strigulae; 3 suffused subbasal Iines; a slightly dentate antemedian at -/j; 

 postmedian at %. wavy, better defined, white-edged distally, central projection obtuse; cell-dot obscure, with 

 a small brownish mark behind it; terminal line blackish, interrupted; fringe mixed with brownish-fuscous. 

 Hindwing wdth termen rounded, wavy; whitish-grey, with cell-dot and obscurely dark postmedian and sub- 

 terminal Iines. Underside similar, markings of hindwing better defined. Hobart, in December, 2 ,5',^, (Turner,) 



agelasta. X. agelasta Tum. S- 24 mm, Palpus 2 14. Pectinations 6, Forewing with termen almost straight, 



markedly oblique; ochreous whitish with fuscous Iines and irroration; subbasal line exciu'ved; median band 

 darker, except in centre, which contains the cell-dot; band obscurely edged with ochreous-whitish, the proximal 

 edge from V3 costa to -/g hindmargin, curved, the distal at %, wdth short obtuse projection, an indentation 

 before the projection, a sinus behind; pale subterminal line slender; terminal line interrupted, Hindwing with 

 termen slightly rounded; ochreous whitish, with dark cell-dot and nearly complete postmedian line (not quite 

 reaching costa); subterminal set in a slight dusky sufl'usion. Both wings beneath nearly as hindwing above. 

 Säle, Victoria, the type. 2 ^^ from Launceston have the postmedian line niuch less developed, the underside 

 suffused with fuscous, (Turner,) 



rhodacrls. X. (?) rhodacris Lower. ,^ unknown, 5 with palpus moderate (about 2), According to Turner "dist- 



inguishable by the reddish-ferruginous forewing, with apical patch of same colour on underside, and the very 

 distinct subterminal line on both wings". Expanse 22 mm. Lower considers it evidently related to hyperythra. 

 Penola, S. Australia, 1 $, in November. 



hyperijthrd. X. hyperythra Lower (25 d), Pectinations of the S long, the outer series, according to Lower, 8 times 



the diameter of the shaft, Palpus almo.st 2. Wings somewhat elongate, Forewing fuscous, with the Iines ochreous- 

 whitish to golden-ochreous ; antemedian oblique inward anteriorly; postmedian with the anterior and central 

 projections not large; apical dash visible. Hindwing paler, glossy, very weakly marked. Underside with strong 

 reddish suffusion. the h i n d wing the more marked. Adelaide (type) and Victoria. Said to be variable. 



castanea. X. castanea Warr. (Supi)l.-Vol. 4, pl. 12b), Probably Palaearctic in origin, looking like a somewhat 



narrower -winged outlier of the munitata {Hbn.) group or perhaps a pectinate relative oi designata Hufn. (Vol, 4, 

 pl. 9 e), Smaller than Eu-phyia subangulafa (Vol, 4, pl, 12 b), which it somewhat resembles in colouring; distal 

 area and hindwing (at least in the $) darker, underside without bright brown subterminal shade. Kashmir. 



oUgepetes. X. oHgepeles sp. 11. (25 e). Somewhat recalls Colosiygia austriacaria H.-Sch. (Vol. 4, pl. 9 b), though not 



quite so long-winged nor so extremely glossy, the markings a little stronger, Head and palpus nearly concolorous 

 with thorax; palpus nearly 2. Pectinations rather long, suberect, widely spaced, numbering about 25 in each 

 series. Band with projections very weak, markings on either side of it punctiform; a few of tlie subterminal 



