the Australian Lymantriadie. 473 



caricie, Fab.; Meyr., Proc. Lin. Soc. N.S.W., 1886, 



p. 769. 

 iodamia, H.-Sch., Ausser. Schmet., f. 119. 

 = nesophora, Meyr., Proc. Lin. Soc. N.S.W., 1886, p. 770. 



Subfamily LYMANTBIANjE. 



Tongue obsolete. Thorax and coxae densely liairy. Fore-wings 

 with areole moderate or absent, veins 8 and 9 arising by a common 

 stalk from areole. Hind-wings with vein 8 approximated to cell, and 

 connected or anastomosing with it. 



A. Fore-wings without areole. 

 B. Fore-wings with 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked (rarely 8 

 absent). 

 C. Fore-wings with 7 arising from 8 -f 9 before 10. 



D. Hind-wings with 4 absent Porthesia. 



DD. Hind-wings with 4 present. 



E. Palpi short, porrect or obliquely 



ascending Euproctis. 



EE. Palpi long, erect, reaching vertex . Heracula. 

 CC. Fore- wings with 1 arising from 8 H- 9 before 7 Lymantria. 

 BB. Fore-wings with 7, 8, 9 stalked, 10 separate . Caragola. 

 BBB. Fore- wings with 7 separate, 8, 9, 10 stalked Haplopseustis. 

 AA. Fore-wings with areole present.* 



B. Hind-legs without middle spurs Orgtjia. 



BB. Hind-legs with middle spurs. 



C. Fore-wings with 11 anastomosing with 12 . Axiologa. 

 CC. Fore-wings with 11 free. 



D. Areole small, 10 connected with 8 + 9 well 



before 7, or rarely 10 free Iropoca. 



DD. Areole moderate, 10 connected with 8-1-9 

 opposite 7. 

 E. Abdomen crested at base of dorsum . Olene. 

 EE. Abdomen not crested but densely 



hairy at base of dorsum . . . Dasijchira. 

 EEE. Abdomen neither crested nor 

 densely hairy at base of dorsum. 

 F. Fore-legs with tarsi densely hairy Psalis. 

 FF. Fore-legs with tarsi not densely 



hairy Laelia. 



* Sometimes absent in Iropoca. 

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