OXYTRIPIA. 



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uuderside with the costal area irrorated with browji ; a discoidal 

 spot. 



2 . Hiud wing with the basal area suffused with brown. 



Hah. X. Queensland, 1 $ ; ? Vicxoria, type t c? acmoj^hora in 

 Coll. Meyrick ; ? Hab. 1 6 type. Exj). 34 millim. 



Genus OXYTRIPIA. 

 Oxytripia, Stand. Cat. Lep. Eui\ p. 9S (1871), uon descr. 



Type. 



orbiculosa. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi porrect, fringed willl long hair below, and 

 hardly reaching beyond the frons, which is smooth, rounded ; eyes small, 

 reniform ; antennae of male bipectinate with short branches to apes ; liead and 

 thorax clothed with scales, prothorax with slight spreading crest, the meta- 

 thorax with large crest ; tibi;v! fringed with hair, the mid and hind tibia; spined ; 

 abdomen clothed with rough hair and with lateral tufts of hair. Fore wing 

 with veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 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 obsolescent fi-om middle of discocellulars ; (i, 7 from 

 upper angle. 



224. Oxytripia orbiculosa. 



yoctna iirbiciehsa, Esp. Schmett. Suppl. iv. p. 93, iii. pi. 93. f. 8 (1786); 

 Herr.-Schaflf. Eur. Schmett. ii. pp. 294, 351, pi. 13. ff. (33, 04; Friv. 

 Jell. pi. V. f. 8 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 168. 



Head and thorax fuscous brown, with a few black scales ; palpi 

 fringed with Avhite below, tcgulte white in front, the vertex of 

 thorax sometimes pinkish ; pectus and legs white, the fore and mid 

 tibiae with black bands ; abdomen fuscous black, with white seg- 

 mental bands, the lateral and anal tufts pale rufous, the ventral 

 surface white. Eore wing dark olive-brown, irrorated with black 

 and tinged with purple-grey ; an excurved subbasal black line from 

 costa to vein 1, defined by white on outer side and with slight 

 pinkish marks beyond it in and below cell and above inuer margin ; 



Fig. 43. — 0.vijtrij)la orhiculo^a, (^ . }-. 



the antemedial line oblique, minutely waved and defined by white 

 on outer side ; claviform small, defined by black ; orbicular round, 

 deep blue-grey with black-centred whitish annuhis and defined by 

 black ; reniform large, wliite, rounded, its lower extremity rather 

 prochiced, some blue-grey and a whitish lunule defined by black 

 above, a black spot on its inner side and some ochreous and black 

 on outer ; a waved black line from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin ; the postmedial line dentate;, defined by grey on outer side. 



