HALOXE. 277 



Sect. II. Autenuse of male fasciculate, the basal joint with small tuft of 

 scales. 



A. Fore wing with broad antemedial white band sejwiicta. 



B. Fore wing with the basal area white, with diffused black 



markings ophiodes. 



C. Fore wing without white mai-kings on basal area. 

 a. Hind wing orange. 



a}. Palpi with the basal joint whitish ; hind wing orange, 

 with the terminal band more or less broad towards 



tornus simtuta. 



6\ Palpi wholly black ; hhid wing oi-ange-yellow, with the 



black near tornus absent or slight sohria. 



■ i. Hind wing grey servilis. 



581. Halone sejiuicta. 



Pitane sejuncta, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 140. f. 24 (1875); Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 348. 



Head and tegulse white ; palpi and antennae blackish ; thorax 

 blackish, with white patch on metathorax; legs brown and yellowish 

 white; abdomen brown, with pale anal tuft. Fore wing with 

 •oblique-edged grey-brown basal patch, followed by a broad white 

 band ; a broad grey-brown medial band, its outer edge irregular 

 and conjoined to a small spot beyond lower angle of cell ; a broad 

 grey-brown terminal band with .sinuous inner edge ; cilia ochreous, 

 brown at apex, middle, and tornus. Hind wing yellowish, with 

 indistinct sinuous postmedial line and fuscous terminal band ; male 

 with slight ridge of rough scales on basal half of wing above. 



Hah. jS' . S. Wales, Sydney {Maihew, Eai/nor), 3 d , 6 § , Rich- 

 mond R., 2 5^; Vtctokia. Ea^i. 16-18 millim. Typet in Coll. 

 Rothschild. 



*582. Halone ophiodes. (Plate XXVI. fig. 8.) 



Mosoda ophiodes, Meyr. P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i. p. 729 (1886); 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 348. 



S . Head ochreous white ; palpi and antennae blackish ; thorax 

 tlackish, the posterior half suffused with ochreous white ; abdomen 

 ochreous yellow ; legs black, banded with ochreous white, hind legs 

 yellowish. Fore wing white, irrorated with a few black scales ; 

 two diffused subdentate blackish lines on basal area not reaching 

 inner margin ; a postmedial blackish band edged by the irregularly 

 dentate medial and postmedial black lines, the latter bent outwards 

 between veins 6 and 3, then incurved ; a black-edged whitisli 

 8-shaped discoidal spot, with a white spot on its outer edge; a 

 diffused irregular subterminal line widely interrupted above and 

 below middle ; cilia ochreous white, chequered with black on apical 

 half. Hind wing ochreous yellow ; a diffused postmedial fuscous 

 line conjoined at costa to a blackish apical patch ; cilia blackish at 

 ba^G towards apex. 



Ilah. VicTOMA. Exj). 25 millim. Figured from drawing in 

 <Joll. Meyrick. 



