-174 KOCXUIUJE. 



scales; fioiis with black bar ; tegiilai Avith two black lines ; ])atagia 

 with black line near margins ; tarsi -with pale rings ; abdomen 

 brown, laterally and ventrally tinged with purple. Fore wing 

 leaden grev, sliiihlly tinged with rufous and irroratcd with fuscous; 

 the medial area with the costal edge white and with black fasciaj 

 in discal and subraedian folds ; the lines double tilled in with white ; 

 subbasal line waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antcmedial line 

 oblique, waved, angled outwards above inner margin, not connected 

 with the claviform, which is narrow and defined by white ; orbicular 

 and reniform with white annuli, the former small, r<)und, the latter 

 narrow, with pale centre defined by bi'owii ; postmedial line strongly 

 bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate and with series 

 of dentate black marks on its inner side, oblique below vein 4 ; 

 subterrainal line white, with prominent series of dentate black 

 marks on its inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia intersected 

 with grey. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia pale rufous ; the 

 underside ochreous irrorated with brown ; a diffused curved post- 

 medial line, the area beyond it suffused with fuscous from apex to 

 vein 2. 



Hah. VrcTOEiA, Melbourne, type f (^ in Coll. Turner. Exp. 

 40 millim. 



1822. Dasygaster ligniplena. 

 Xylina ligniplena, Wlk. xi. 762 (1857). 



S . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some grey ; frons 

 with black bar ; teguloe with black medial line ; patagia with some 



Fig. 142. — Dasygaster ligniplena, <^. ]. 



black scales above ; spurs and tarsi Avith pale rings ; abdomen 

 rufous, pale at base. Fore wing rufous and pale ochreous irrorated 

 with black ; the veins irrorated with black ; a black streak below base 

 of cell ; subbasal line defined by pale colour on outer side, waved, from 

 costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line defined by pale colour on 

 inner side, oblique towards costa, then dentate ; claviform absent ; 

 orbicular a small pale mark ; reniform small, with pjilc annulus and 

 white i)oint on its lower edge; some dark suffusion above and 

 below end of median nervure and between veins 5 and 2 ; post- 



