490 



K0CXUID2E. 



Ah. 2. lliiul winp: whiter, the veins and terminal edge only tinp;eii 

 w'itli brown, tlie blatk points appearing on npperside. — W. Australia. 



Hah. QuKENsLAND, Brisbane (Tiirner), 1 cJ' , 2 $ ; W. Australia, 

 Eocbourne {Li/.n), 1 $ . Exp. 34-38 millim. 



1846. CirpMs leucosta. (Plate XCI. fig. 26.) 

 Lcucania leucosta, Lower, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. xxvi. p. 044 (1901). 



S . Head and thorax deep purplish red ; abdomen pale reddi.sh 

 brown, purplish red on ventral surface. Fore wing deep purple- 

 red irrorated with black and grey ; the costal edge white ; traces of 

 an oblique antemedial line; a white point on a small fuscous patch 

 at lower angle of cell ; traces of a curved postmedial series of dark 

 points on the veins and of a terminal series ; cilia with a fine pale 

 line at base. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area to 

 vein 2 suffused with purplish red ; cilia purplish red Mnth a fine 

 pale line at base ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas 

 irrorated with purplish red, some black points on termen. 



JIab. Queensland, 1 cJ ; S. Australia. A'ly. 34 millim. 



i'. Fore tibi.T? of male moderately fringed with liair on 

 both sides ; tlie I'emora and coxa? fringed with long 

 hair, 

 a*. Anal tufts of male very large ; fore wing without 



black point in lower anfjle of eell leveosphenia. 



b'. Anal tufts of male moderate ; fore wing with 



black point in lower angle of cell lasiomera. 



*1847. Cirphis leiicosphenia. 

 Leucania leucosphenia, Beth. Baker, A. M. N. H. (7) xv. p. 193 (1905). 



Head and thorax ochreous mixed with rufous and dark brown ; 

 tegula; with strong dark medial line; abdomen ochreous, slightly 

 tinged with purplish pink and irrorated with dark brown. Eore 



Fig. 152. — Cirphis leticosphenia , J. [. 



wing ochreous thickly irrorated with fuscous ; the veins defined 

 by fine fuscous streaks, tlio interspaces also streaked with fuscous ; 

 an oblique black streak above inner margin before middle ; a short 



