286 Mr. E. Meyrick's dcscrij^tiuns of 



HiLAROGRAPHA, Z. 



The generic characters are incompletely given by 

 Zeller, and I therefore subjoin them in full : — 



Head with loosely appressed hairs ; ocelli large, bright ; no 

 tongue. AntenniB hardly more than half fore wings, in male 

 strongly ciliated with fascicles (2^), basal joint short, stout, without 

 pecten. Labial palpi short, slender, curved, ascending, with 

 appressed scales, terminal joint shorter than second, tolerably 

 pointed. Maxillary palpi absent. Posterior tibias loosely rough- 

 scaled above. Fore wings with vein 1 furcate at base, 2 from 

 lower margin of cell before three-fourths, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to 

 hind margin. Hind wings as broad as fore wings, oblong-ovate ; 

 veins 3 and 4 short-stalked, 6 and 7 stalked, 1 h pectinated towards 

 base. 



This genus offers an exception to the definition of the 

 family, in having veins 6 and 7 of the hind wings 

 stalked ; I think the definition may be provisionally 

 widened to include this case. 



159. Hilarographa zapyra, n. s. 

 (J , 15 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and legs reddish ochreous, 

 anterior legs banded with dark fiiscous. Thorax dark fuscous, 

 purplish-tinged. Abdomen orange, banded with dark fuscous. 

 Fore wings moderate, rather strongly dilated, costa almost straight, 

 apex rounded, hind margin hardly oblique, shghtly rounded, rather 

 strongly indented below apex ; bright deep orange, marbled with 

 numerous very irregular angulated transverse dark pm-ple-fuscous 

 lines, excejjt on a hind-marginal band attenuated to a point at anal 

 angle ; between pairs of these lines are four oblique light metallic- 

 blue streaks from costa, becoming obsolete before disc ; a curved 

 whitish dark-margined streak fi-om apex returning to costa at four- 

 fifths ; a leaden grey mark above anal angle, terminated above by 

 a black dot ; a whitish dot on siibapical indentation, triangularly 

 margined with dark fuscous ; cilia whitish, with a dark purple- 

 fuscous line, interrupted on indentation. Hind wings bright orange, 

 suffusedly margined with dark fuscous, more broadly along inner 

 margin and at apex; cilia grey-whitish, with a dark fuscous basal 

 line. 



Port Moresby, New Guinea {MatJicir) ; one s})ecimen. 



