368 NOCTUID®. 
Genus OCHTHOPHORA. Tepe 
Ochthophora, Turner, P. Linn. Soc, N. 8, W. xxvii. p. 89 (1902). sericina. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching 
to just above vertex of head and slightly fringed with hair above towards 
extremity, the 38rd long, porract, and somewhat dilated at extremity; frons 
smooth with ridge of hair above; eyes large, round; antenne of male some- 
what laminate and ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the 
prothorax without crest, the metathorax with very large oblique flattened crest ; 
fore tibie fringed on both sides with long hair, the mid and hind tibix 
smoothly sealed ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with 
the costa highly arched near base, the apex rounded, the termen oblique 
towards tornus, not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from 
upper angle: 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a large long areole ; 11 
from cell. Hind wing with vein 3 from just before angle of cell ; “4, 5 shortly 
stalked ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell to near middle. 
6687. Ochthophora sericina. 
Ochthophora sericina, Turner, Pr. Linn. Soe. N.S. W. xxvii. p. 90 (1902). 
Head and thorax pale brown mixed with grey; abdomen pale 
brown, white below. Fore wing silky grey suffused with brown 
except on costal and base of inner areas; basal black points in and 
below cell; a waved grey subbasal line from costa to median neryure 
and two before the fine oblique irregularly waved black antemedial 
line ; traces of a waved medial line; the orbicular and reniform 
represented by tufts of brown scales with grey annuli; a fine 
waved and dentate black postmedial line, very oblique from costa to 
Fig. 186.—Ochthophora sericina, Q. 3. 
vein 7, at vein 2 retracted to upper angle of cell, passing round inner 
side of reniform, then running obliquely outwards to vein 2 and 
angled inwards in submedian fold ; an indistinct irregularly waved 
subterminal line. Hind wing semihyaline white, the costa and 
termen suffused with brown, on latter narrowing to a point at 
vein 2, 
Hab. QurEenstanp, Kuranda (Dodd), 1 2, Brisbane, type tT ¢ in 
Coll. Turner, Zap, 38 millim, 
