102 AKCXlADiE. 



Genus SCOLIACMA. 



Type. 



ScoJiacma, Mevr. V. Liiiu. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i. p. 605 (1886) ... bicohra. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect.not reacliiiig beyond froiis which is 

 B.uootbly scaled ; tibia- with the spurs moderate ; abdotueu clothed with rough 

 hair. Fore wing narrow ; the costa nearly straight, the termen very obliquely 

 rounded; vein 2 from middle of cell; 3 from before angle parallel to 4, or 3,4 

 stalked ; 5 abseut ; 6 usually shortly stalked with 7, 8, D ; 7 from 8 beyond 9 ; 10 

 from cell; 11 anastomosing with 12. Iliiul wing with vein 2 from well before 

 angle of cell ; 3, 4 coincident ; 5 absent ; 8 from near middle of cell. 



Sect. 1. Antennae of male with fascicles of long cilia and bristles ; fore wing 

 with patch of dark androconia on underside below and beyond the 

 cell, covered by the costa of hind wing, which is very strongly lobed 

 and folded near base, the apex strongly excised ; 6, 7 stalked and 

 bent upwards. 



A. Head and thorax brownish orfhotoma. 



U. Head and thorax orange-yellow nephclo::ona {^). 



183. Scoliacnia orthotoma. 



Scoliaema orthotoma, Meyr. P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i. p. 096 (1880) ; 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 288. 



c5' . Head and thorax dull brownish yellow; abdomen yellowish. 

 Fore wing dull brownish yellow, the patch of androconia on under- 

 side blackish. ]Iiud wing yellow. 



Fig. 41. — ScoUacma orthotoma, (^ . \. 



Uah. YicroRiA, Melbourne, Raynor Coll., 1 S . Exp. 2-4 millim. 

 Type t in Coll. Meyrick. 



*184. Scoliaema nephelozona. (Plate XX. fig. 25.) 



Tigrioidcs ncphelozona, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1889, p. 458 ; Kirby, Cat. 

 Het. p. 341. 



5 . Head and thorax orange-yellow ; antennas fuscous ; patagia, 

 mcsothorax, and legs tinged in part with fuscous ; abdomen greyish 

 fuscous, orange-yellow at extremity, on sides and ventral surface. 

 Pore w^ing ochreous yellow, with obscure diffused fuscous postmedial 

 band oblique from vein 4 to inner margin : the apex and tennen 

 slightly tinged with fuscous. Hind wing pale yellow. 



Uab. X. Guinea, typo t $ in Coll. Meyrick.* Exy. 36 millim. 



Sect. II. Antennae of male with cilia and bristles ; fore wing with strong costal 

 fold and tuft of hair from base of costa ; hind wing with the costa 

 strongly arched. 



A. Hind wing with an elliptical swelling in cell bisected by a rib down the 

 middle ; veins 0, 7 coincident in male. 



