104 



AECTIADJ;. 



*1S7. Scoliacma brunnea. (Piute :XX, fig. 2G.) 



Scoliacma hnmnea, Dnice, A. M. ]S'. H. (7) iv. p. 201 (189'J). 



$ . Head, tegula\ and patagia exoopt at tips orange-yellow ; 

 palpi dark at tips; thorax and abdomen brown with a slight purplish 

 tinge, tlie extremity and ventral surface, the eoxte and femora orange. 

 Pore wing red-brown. Hind wing darker brown. 



Hah. N. Guinea, Port Moresby (Goldie), typef? in Coll. Druce. 

 E,V2>. 34 raillim. 



*188. Scoliacma pactolias. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 22.) 



ScoUacTiiapacfolias, Meyr. P. Linn. See. N. S. W. (2) i. p. 600 (1886) ; Kirby. 



Cat. Het. p. 288. 

 Tigrioides acoi^ma, Turner, Trans. Eoy. Soc. S. Austr. 18£9, p. 10. 



Head, thorax, abdomen, and legs ochreous yellow ; palpi and 

 antenna? fuscous. Fore wing ochreous yellow irrorated with a tew 

 fuscous scales. Hind wing pale ochreous yellow. 



Hah. N. QuKEXsr..\Ni), Johnstone E., tyi)e t ? acosma in Coll. 

 Turner : Victoria, Melbourne. E.rj^. 31 millim. 



Genus LEPISTA. 



Type. 



Lephfa, Wllgi-n. "Wien. ent. Mon. Tii. p. 14G (1803) pmidiila. 



Di/phlebia, Feld. Reis. Nov. p. 4 (1874) pandida. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi roughly scaled, porrect, not extending beyond 

 frons, wbicli is rounded ; antciiiiaj of male serrate and fasciculate ; tibiiv; with tlie 

 spurs short ; abdomen clothed with rough hair. Fore wing narrow, the costa 

 nearly straight, the termen short; vein 2 from well before angle of cell, oblique ; 

 3, 4 coincident ; 5 absent ; 6, 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10 free ; 11 from towards end of cell' 

 anastomosing with 12. Hind wing with vein 2 well before angle ; 3, 4 coincident ; 

 b, absent; 6,7 stalked ; 8 from middle of cell. 



A. Fore wing orange, with terminal black band paiidula. 



E. Fore wing leaden grey, with orange costal fascia scmiuchracea. 



189. Lepista pandula. 



Lifhosia pandula, Eoisd., Delegorgue, Voy. Afr. Austr. ii. p. 597 ( 1847)- 

 Kirby, Cat. Ilet. p. 313. * i v /. 



Byphlehia trimtnii, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 10(1 f .S2 (1874). 

 Uyphlebia limiuta, Butl. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 98 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 313. 



6 . Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; orange patches between 

 antennae and on shoulders; hind tibiae mostly orange; abdomen 



with the anal segment and 

 ventral surface orange ; 

 wings orange. Fore wing 

 with black patch at base of 

 inner area ; the terminal 

 third black, its inner edge 



Y\^. ^.-Lepista pai^duh, S- \. ^'""}\^ ^-S^^'^'. ""^ '-T'/* 



. '' 'O T and 1. Hnid wing with the 



terminal third black, narrowing to a point at tornus. 



2 . Head mostly orange ; abdomen with the ventral surface black, 



leaving the extremity and lateral stripes orange. 



