PHRAttJlATIPIIILA. 



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Sect. I. Antennas of male bipectinate with rather long branches to apex. 



4655. Phragmatiphila truncata. 



Leucania truncata , AYlk. ix. Ill (1856). 



Leucania leonina, Wlk. xxxii. <i27 (1865). 



Nonagna exitiosa, Oliff. Agric. Gaz. N.S.W. iv. p. 380, pi. 22. f. E (1893). 



Head and thorax greyish oehreous mixed with fuscous brown ; 

 antenna? pale oehreous ; abdomen oehreous white. Fore wing 

 oehreous suffused and irrorated with reddish brown ; traces of 

 antemedial dark points on the veins ; an indistinct double oblique 

 postmedial series of slight dark points from vein 6 to inner margin; 



Fig. 112. — Vhragmatiphila truncata, J. j. 



a terminal series of black points. Hind wing oehreous white 

 slightly tinged with brown ; the underside pale oehreous, the costal 

 area slightly tinged with rufous. 



Ab. 1. Head, thorax, and fore wing entirety suffused with fuscous. 



2 . Fore wing more oehreous without reddish tinge. 



Ab. 2 (leonina). Fore wing with the median nervure and vein 4 

 streaked with fuscous. 



Hah. K. S. Wales (Rayvor), 2 tf , 1 £ ; S. Australia, Adelaide, 

 3 $ type; Tasmania, 1 $ type leonina. Exp. 28-30 millim. 



Larva. Pinkish, purplish above ; lateral line very indistinct ; 

 ventral surface yellowish white ; head red-brown ; thoracic plate 

 yellow-brown ; each somite with four dorsal and two lateral warts 

 and similar subventral warts. Food-plant : fteeds, in the stems. 



Sect. II. Antennas of male minutely serrate and fasciculate. 



A. Fore wing red-brown, the renif'orm white, its upper extremity 



bent outwards and lower extremity angled inwards nexa. 



B. Fore wing greyish suffused with brown, an indistinct whitish 



discoidal bar serrata, 



C. Fore wing fuscous black, the reniform with white annulus fumea. 



4656. Phragmatiphila nexa. 



Kortua nexa, Hubn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 395 (1808) ; Frr. Neue 

 Schmett. ii. pi. 136. ff. 3, 4 ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. S dimett., Noct. ff. 342, 

 343 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 187. 



Head and thorax red-brown with a greyish tinge ; palpi and 

 sides of frons dark brown; tarsi dark brown with slight pale rings; 

 abdomen pale red-brown, the basal crest blackish. Fore wing pale 

 red-brown suffused with rufous, the terminal area rather greyer, 



