384 NOOTCID.E. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 290 ; Hffin. Raup. p. 144, pi. 36. f. 18. 



Yellow, with broad grey dorsal and lateral stripes; stigmata 

 black ; head brown ; thoracic shield dark with yellowish dorsal 

 line. Food-plant, Delphinium, 7-8. 



*4839. Mgla, hedychroa. (Plate CXLV. fig. 17.) 



Megalodes hedychroa, Turner, Tr. E.. Soc. S. Austr. xxviii. p. 218 (1901). 



rJ . Head and thorax flesh-white, some black on vertex of head 

 and teguise ; palpi black at sides ; tarsi banded with black ; abdo- 

 men pale ochreous brown. Fore wing flesh-white ; a black point 

 at base of costa ; a subbasal black line from costa to submedian 

 fold slightly angled inwards at median nervure ; an irregularly 

 waved antemedial line with black patch before it on costa and in 

 cell and two black points above vein 1 ; a brownish maculate 

 medial band developed into a patch on inner area : reniform 

 brownish, elliptical ; postmedial line waved, arising from a small 

 spot on costa, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved ; subterminal line brownish, maculate, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excuived at middle with a black patch before it from 

 costa to vein 6 and a pale point on it at costa, two black spots 

 before it above and below vein 2 and fuscous spots beyond it at 

 discal fold and tornus. Hind wing ochreous brown ; the underside 

 paler with slight discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line. 



hub. Queensland, Dalby, type f <$ in Coll. Turner. Exp. 

 24 millim. 



Genus ANTAPLAGA. 



.Type. 



Antaplaga, Grote. Can. Ent. ix. p. 70 (1877) dimidiata. 



Eulithosia, H. Edw. Papilio, iv. p. 43 (1884) composita. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect extending to jus*' beyond the irons 

 and moderately fringed with hair below; frons with truncate corneous pro- 

 minence with raised edges and central process and corneous plate below it; 

 eyes large, round ; antenna? of male minutely ciliated ; thorax smoothly clothed 

 almost entirely with scales and without crests; tibire smoothly scaled, the fore 

 tibia- short with long curved claw on inner side at extremity; build slender ; 

 abdomen without, crests. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex somewhat 

 produced, the termen obliquely curved and not erenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from 

 near angle of cell ; b' from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form 

 the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 

 5 ra.ther slight from below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked; 8 anasto- 

 mosing with the cell near base, then approximated to it to near middle. 



A. Fore wing silvery green pyralina. 



B. Fore wing orange. 



a. Fore wing with double ante- and postmedial black lines... dchi . 



b. Fore wing without ante- and postmedial lines. 



a 1 . Fore and hind wings with the cilia deep orange saltwort. 



b 1 . Fore and hind wings with the cilia pale composita. 



C. Fore wing pale yellowish to white. 



a. Fore wing with the terminal half suffused with fuscous 



brown dimidiata. 



