1112 



noctcid.t: 



Subsp. 1. 2 ■ i^niallei- ; tore wing williout ihc pale line at base 

 of cilia. 



Ilalj. Canada, Vancouver I. (./. /. Wcdkcr), 1 $. Ev2). 30 



millini. 



(.leniis AUSTRAMATHES, nov. 



Tyjie, A. piirptirra. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi iiiitui-ncd, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of 

 head, fringed with long liair in IVoiit, the ;jrd long ; Irons smooth ; eyes large, 

 rounded ; antenna> of female cihated ; head and thorax smoothly clothed with 

 hair and hair-like scales, the prothorax with large divided crest, the metathorax 

 with spreading crest ; pectus clothed with long hair ; abdomen with some rough 

 hair at base but, witnout crests. Fore wing ratiier broad, the termen evenly 

 curved ; veins o and .'> from near angle of cell ; from upjier angle ; I) from 10 

 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of disco- 

 cellulars ; 0, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



2715. Aiistraniathes purpurea. 



Grnphlphora piirpuna. End. Cist. Ent. ii. p. -i'JO (1879); Iludson, New 



Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 8, pi. v. f. Ii2. 

 Xanthia ccmiiiodcs, Meyr, Trans. N. Z. Inst. xix. p. 31 (1887). 



$ . Head and thorax deep purple-red with a few white scales ; 

 palpi ochreous in front ; tcg-ula} and iirothoracie crest tipped with 

 ochreous ; i)ectus rufous ; abdoiuen red-brown, paler at base, darker 

 at extremity. Fore wiu.o; deep purple-red, irrorated with a few 

 Avhite scales ; subbasal line represented by white points below 



Fig. 105. — AiiKtramaihes purpurea, §. ]. 



costa and cell: antcmedial line indistinct, defined by white scales, 

 obliijue, dentate ; an obli(]ue white and Idack line across cell repre- 

 senting outer edge of orbicular, connected by a U-shaped mark 

 with black-brown spot in it with the reniform which is defined 

 by white, snuill and constricted at middle, partly o])en below and 

 with a short black-brown streak beyond it ; postmedial line indis- 

 tinct, defined by white scales on outer side, slightly bent outwards 

 l»elow costa, then dentate, cxcurved to vein 4, then oblique and 

 incurved in suljniedian fold, some whitish points beyond it on 

 costa ; hardly a trace of the stibtcrminal line ; a terminal series of 

 slight dark points. Hind wing ochreous, .suffused witli red-brown 

 on basal half, deep red-brown on terminal half; cilia whitish at 

 tips ; the underside ochreous thickly irrorated with red-brown ; a 



