PHALJENOIDRS. 



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Genus PHAL^NOIDES. 



Type. 



Phalcenoidesi, Lewin, Lep. Ins. N.S.W. p. :i ( 1 80.)) : glyciiue. 



FAitactis, Hiibn. Zutr. Ex. Solunett. i. p. 2,S (1827) tridificus. 



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

 fringed witli long b;iir iu front, tlie 3rd porrect and dilated at extremity ; 

 frous with truncate conical prominence with raised rim at extremity; anteniiai 

 nearly simple and slightly ddated before extremity ; head, thorax, femora, fore 

 and mid tibiiE clothed with long hair; abdomen of male wifj) lateral tufts of 

 long hair on bisal segments. Fore wing with vein 2 from towards angle of 

 cell ; 3 from close to angle ; 5 from well above angle ; (J from upper angle ; 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a moderately long angle; 11 free. 

 Hind wing with vein 2 from well before angle of cell; 3, 4 from angle; 

 5 obsolescent from muldie of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



Skct. I. Wings of male with st realis of ribbed semihyaline membrane in and 

 below cell of fore wing and below vein S and in cell ol' hind wing, tlie 

 neuration being somewhat distorted ; hind legs with the 1st joint of 

 tarsus long, curved, dilated, and with serrate corneous ridge along 

 upperside for producing sound by friction against each other or tlie 

 ribbed membrane of wings ; mid tibite and abdomen smoothly scaled, 

 the anal tuft small. 



51. Phalsenoides tetrapleura. 



Agarista tetrapleura, Meyr. Trans. R. Soc. S. Anstr. xiv. p. 195 (1891) ; 



'Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 897. 

 PhaUeiioides albamedia, Lucas, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) vi. p. 301 



(1891). 

 Phalcenoides macleai/i, Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. p. 157, pi. v. f. 11 



(1892). 



Fig. 245.— Phalcenoides tetrapleura, cj" 



d ■ Mack ; pale yellow marks on basal joint of palpi, sides of 

 frons, and behind the eyes, the 2nd joint of palpi streaked witli 

 white ; the basal joint of antenniu, back of head, tegulae, patagia, 

 and thorax with pale yellow ])oiiits ; pectus with orange hair ; 

 tibijc and tarsi with white points ; abdomen with yellowish-white 

 segmental rings, the anal tuft and lateral tufts at base orange. 

 Fore wing irroraied with a few bluisli-wliito scales; an obliijue 

 series of six yellow spots from eosta beyond middle to vein 2 near 

 terraen in echelon of three, two, and one spots, a few bluish-white 

 scales beyond the spots and a scries of slight postmedial streaks on 



