SCOLIACMA. 



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185. Scoliacma "bicolora. 



Llthosia bicolora, Boisd. Voy. Astrolabe, Lup. p. 211, j)!. 3. f. 9 (1832); 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 288. 

 Lifhosia rubrata, Tepp. Trans. R. Soc. S. Austr. v. p. 30 (1882). 



Head and tegulae crimson ; palpi and antennae blackish ; thorax 

 and abdomen blackish ; legs with more or less crimson; anal tuft 

 crimson. Pore wing crimson, the terminal area black, its inner 

 edge running obliquely from below costa to middle of inner margin, 



Fig. 4:2.— Scoliacma bicolora, (^ . 



the basal half often more or less completely suffused with black 

 except on costal area and inner margin ; cilia crimson. Hind wing 

 with the basal half crimson, the terminal half black with rather 

 irregular inner edge running obliquely to inner margin above 

 tornus ; cilia crimson. 



Hah. N. 8. Wales, 5 2; Victoria; S.Australia; Tasmania, 

 2 cj' , 3 5 {All_port, J. J. Wallcer). E^p. ;U millim. 



B. Hind wing of male normal. 



a. Fore wing grey with white costal fascia spilarchx (2). 



b. Fore wing uniform brown bnmnca (^ ). 



c. Fore wing ochreous pactolias. 



f*"?---^. 



I, 



jellow hair, 

 cous grey 



*186, Scoliacma spilarcha. 



Tiijrioides spilarcha, Meyr. P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i. p. 699 ( 1886) ; Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 341. 



2 . Head and thorax fuscous grey ; frons white ; abdomen 



sparsely clothed with pale 

 Eore wing fus- 

 a broad white 

 costal fascia from base atten- 

 uated to a point beyond 

 middle ; obliquely placed 

 postmcdial obscure dark 

 points at junction of veins 

 6, 4 and on inner margin ; 

 cilia pale ochreous. Hind 

 Aving ochi'eons yellow. 

 JIab. N. S. Wales, Sydney, tvpe t $ in Coll. Me^-rick. Kvj_). 

 28 millim. 



Fig. 43. — Scoliacma spilarcha, 5 . 



