260 Mr. J. O. Westwood on the. 



nigra; antennis brevibus, 25-articulatis ; alis cellulis obliquis 

 discoidalibus 7. Tab. nostr. 17, fig. 3. 



Long. corp. lin. 5\ ; expans. alar. lin. 12|. 



Habitat Adelaidam Australasia?. In Mus. Saunders. 



Head chesnut, above glossy ; inner margin of eyes, a narrow 

 transverse line on the crown, and a small central spot just above 

 the insertion of the antennae yellow, the front with two slight im- 

 pressions above the antennas, leaving an ill-defined central carina ; 

 face yellow, with a black central line ; antennae short, scarcely 

 more than twice the length of the head, rather robust ; 25-jointed, 

 the basal joint moderately thick, 2nd small, 3rd rather longer than 

 the 4th, which, with the following, is transverse; terminal joints 

 slightly attenuated. Prothorax about two and a half times the 

 length of the head, considerably dilated in front, but not so broad 

 as the head, rather glossy, the middle portion strongly striated 

 transversely. Two small dots near the front margin, a third in 

 the central line rather behind the former, and the two small 

 tubercles (separating the dilated front part from the cylindrical 

 middle part), yellow, and arranged thus '•' there is also a 

 slender line down the middle of the cylindrical part, the sides of 

 which are also yellow, with a slender dark line running along the 

 middle of the yellow stripe. The meso- and metathorax are chesnut 

 above, the former with the anterior margin and the sides slightly 

 varied with yellow, beneath and sides dark brown, varied with 

 yellow. Abdomen chesnut, with the sides yellow ; beneath chesnut, 

 with the base of the middle segments broadly yellow ; fore coxae 

 yellowish brown behind, pale luteous in front, with a slender black 

 line running their whole length ; femora within and above dark 

 chesnut, outside luteous yellow, with a dark brown line running 

 above the teeth, tibia and tarsus dirty yellow, with the fore edge 

 dark ; middle coxae with a yellow patch in front and another at 

 the sides ; hind coxae entirely dark brown ; four hind legs dark 

 luteous yellow ; femora with a dark longitudinal stripe beneath ; 

 wings slightly stained yellow, principal longitudinal veins yellowish 

 brown ; stigma long and bright red ; longitudinal oblique veins 

 dependent on the 3rd sector radii of the fore wings, and on the 

 second of the hind wings, seven in number. 



35. M. Scutellaria, Westw. Luteo-flava, capite magis castaneo, 

 meso-thorace supra lineis duabus nigris convergentibus, 

 scutellis magis elevatis, abdominis segmentis fascia apicali 

 nigra in medio interrupta, antennis brevibus brunneis, 32-ar- 

 ticulatis. Tab. nostr. 17, fig. 4. 



Long. corp. lin. 7; expans. alar. lin. 15. 



Habitat in Nova Hollandia. Mus. W. W. Saunders. 



