558 



AGARISTID^. 



Ilah. N. Guinea, Milne Bay {Meek), type t $ in Coll. lloth- 

 Bcliild. Exp. 60 millim. 



66. PhalsBiioides glycinae. 



Thahenoides glycinm, Lewin, Lep. Ins. N. S. Wales, p. 2, pi. 1 (1805) ; 

 Boisd. Spec. Geu. Lep. i. pi. 14. f. 3 ; McCoy, Prodr. Zool. Viet. i. 

 pi. 8. ff. 'J-13 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. *22. 



Black ; palpi at base and extremity of 2nd joint banded with 

 yellow; sides of irons, vertex of head, tegulse, patagia, and vertex 

 of thorax striped with greenish yellow ; gulte and throat yellow ; 

 the hair on pectus, femora, and mid and hind tibise fulvous orange ; 



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Fig. 2'iQ.—Thal(Bnoides glycincB, (^ . 



fore tibiae fringed with yellow and black hair ; tibise and tarsi with 

 white points ; abdomen with the terminal segment and a series of 

 ventral bands fulvous orange. Fore wing with two greenish-yellow 

 points at base ; a subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, where 

 it emits a streak nearly to the oblique anteraedial line which is 

 incurved to inner margin ; a yellow bar across end of cell with some 

 greenish scales above it ; an oblique yellow band with irregularly 

 sinuous edges from below costa beyond middle to above tornus, 

 some greeni.^h scales beyond it between costa and vein 5 and below 

 vein 1 beyond middle ; a series of slight white subterminal streaks 

 on the veins usually present ; cilia white at apex. Hind wing with 

 a yellow patch just beyond the cell often developed in male ; a series 

 of pale yellow spots on the veins at termen and the cilia yellow ; 

 underside with a yellow fascia below basal half of costa, with a 

 more or less developed curved band from its extremity to just 

 beyond lower angle of cell, and a postmedial series of short bluish- 

 white streaks on the veins. 



Hah. N. S. Wales, Mrudi (Eai/nor), 2 J , 4 J ; Victoeia, Mel- 

 bourne {Parser), 10 c?, 4 $ . Exp., J 54, $ 60 millim. 



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



White, the ventral surface pale yellow ; the head marked with 

 black ; the somites with numerous black striae on the white area 

 interrupted by dorsal and supra-spiracular white lines ; the spiracles 

 on crimson spots becoming large and quadrate on medial somites ; 

 a broad dorsal and lateral crimson band on subterminal somite ; 



