384 XOCTUIDJE. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 290 ; Hffm. Eaup. p. 144, pi. 30. f. 18. 



Yellow, with broad s,ve\ dorsal and lateral stripes; stigmata 

 black ; head brown ; thoracic shield dark with yellowish dorsal 

 line. Food-plant, Delphinium. 7-8. 



*4839. ^gla hedychroa. (Plate CXLV. fig. 17.) 

 Megalodes hedychroa. Turner, Tr. R. Soc. S. Austr. xxviii. p. 218 (1901). 



rj . Head and thorax flesh-white, some black on vertex of head 

 and teg'ulae ; palpi black at .sides ; tarsi banded with black ; abdo- 

 men pale ochreous brown. Fore wing flesh-white ; a black point 

 at base of costa ; a subbasal black line from costa to submedian 

 fold slightly angled inwards at median nervure ; an irregularly 

 waved antemedial line with black ])atr-,h before it on costa and in 

 cell and two black points above vein 1 ; a brownish maculate 

 medial band developed into a patch on inner area : reniform 

 brownish, elliptical ; postmedial line waved, arising from a small 

 spot on costa, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved ; subterminal line brownish, maculate, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excuived at middle with a black patch before it from 

 costa to vein 6 and a ])ale point on it at costa, two black spot.s 

 before it above and ])elow vein 2 and fuscous spots beyond it at 

 discal fold and tornus. Hind wing ochreous brown ; the underside 

 paler with .slight discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line. 



JrJoh. QuEENsr..vND, Dalby, type f <^ in Coll. Turner. Exp. 

 24 millim. 



Genu.s ANTAPLAGA. 



Ivpe. 



Aiifr/plrrr/n. Grote, Can. Eiit. ix. p. 70 (1877) (luiHaiata. 



EulUhotiia, 11. Edw. Paj^ilio, iv. p. 43 (1884) rompodta. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect extending to jiis^ beyond the Irons 

 ami uioderatelj fringed with hair below; frons with truncate corneous pro- 

 minence with raised edges and central proee.ss and corneous plate below it; 

 eyes large, round; antenna3 of male minutely ciliated ; thorax smoothly clothed 

 almost entirely with scales and without crests; tibire smoothly scaled, the tore 

 lihi:e .short with long curved claw on inner side at extremity; build sleniler ; 

 abdomen without crests. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex somewhat 

 produced, the tenneu obliquely curved and not creuulate ; vein.s 3 and li from 

 near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastoujosing with 8 to form 

 the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing wirh veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 

 6 rather slight from below middle of discocellulars ; 6,7 sialked; 8 anasto- 

 mo.sing with the cell near base, then approximated to it to near middle. 



A. Fore wing silvery green pyrodina. 



B. Fore wing orange. 



a. Fore wing with double ante- and postmedial black lines... de/a. 



b. Fore wing without ante- and postmedial lines. 



aL Fore and hind wings with the cilia deep orange salacon. 



V-. Fore and hind wings with the cilia i)ale composita. 



C. Fore wing pale yellowish to wiiile. 



a. Fore wing with the terminal half suffused with fuscous 



brown , diniidiuta. 



