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AGARISTID^. 



Genus EUTRICHOPIDIA, 



uov. 



Type, E. latina. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint obliquely upturned and 

 fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd porrect, naked, long, and dilated at 

 extremity; irons with truncate conical prominence, with raised rim at 

 extremity ; eyes hairy ; aiitennse nearly sinjple, sliglitly dilated before extremity ; 

 head, thorax, femora, tibiae, and abdomen clothed with long hair. Fore wing 

 with vein 2 from towards angle of cell ; 3, 4 from angle ; 5 from above angle ; 

 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole, or 

 abnormally 10 also anastomosing with 8; 11 free. Hind wing with vein 2 

 from well before angle of cell ; 3, 4 from angle ; 6 obsolescent from middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



50. Eutrichopidia latina. 



PhalcBna latinus, Ponov. Ins. N. HoU. pi. 32. f. 4 (1805) ; Angas, S. Aus- 

 tralia Illustr. pi. 37. f. 23 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 22. 



Blue-black ; sides of palpi and frons, basal joint of antennae, 

 giilae, spots on back of head, tegulas, and patagia pale yellow ; the 

 hair on cosoe, fore femora, and the tuit on outer side of mid tibiae 

 orange ; tibiae and tarsi with white points ; abdomen with the anal 

 tuft orange, the ventral surface with white segmental Jities. Fore 



Fig. 244. — Euti'ichopidia latina, (^. ]. 



wing with the basal area sparsely irrorated with bluish-white scales, 

 especially towards co.sta ; an ochreous band with irregularly sinuous 

 edges from costa just beyond middle to near tornus ; a subterminal 

 series of groups of bluish-white scales on the veins ; cilia white and 

 pale yellow at apex and tornus. Hind wing with three pale 

 yellow spots on termen between apex and vein 6, and a band with 

 waved inner edge between vein 4 and tornus, with three black spots 

 on termen below veins 2, 3, 4 ; cilia pale yellow. 



Hab. N. S. Wales, Mredi {liaynor), 1 $ ; TASiiAJfiA, Hobart 

 (Allport), 4 d" , 4 2 ' Exp. 58 mi'lUm. 



Larva. Scott, Austral. Lep. ii. p. 17, pi. 15. 



Pale yellow ; head, legs, prolegs, spiracles, and a large dorsal 

 and lateral patch on subterminal somite crimson; numerous black 

 strigse on dorsal and lateral surfaces and more developed bands on 

 terminal somite ; an infra-spiracular black line ; hairs fine, whitish. 

 Food-plant, Haloragis teucrioides. 



Cocoon formed of agglutinated earth. 



