278 ARCTlADiE. 



583. Halone simiata. 



Sediia siniiata, Wllgrn. Wicn. Eiit. Mon. iv. p. 40 (18G0) ; Kirbv, Cat. 



Het. p. 358. 

 Moso(/a anartoides, Wlk. xxxv. 1900 (IBGtJ) ; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 348. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; basal joint of palpi whitish ; 

 antciinae with the tuft of scales on basal joint whitish; vertex of 

 head whitish, with black central patch ; thorax mixed with whitish 

 scales, and with whitish patch on mctathorax ; tibia? and tarsi with 

 pale rings ; abdomen with the anal tuft and ventral surface orange. 

 Fore wing dark reddish brown, irrorated with whitish scales; 

 indistinct irregularly-dentate subbasal, ante- and postmcdial dark 



Fig. 195. — Halone si incata, J. |. 



lines defined by grey scales, the two latter angled inwards in sub- 

 median fold, the last bent outwards between veins and 4 and 

 angled inwards in discal fold ; a white discoidal spot ; a white 

 point at apex ; a terminal lunule below apex, and two above tornus. 

 Hind wing orange, with terminal black band varying much in 

 width, its inner edge bent outwards to near termen between vein 3 

 and submedian fold and irregular towards tornus. 



Hab, N. S. Wales, Sydney (Darnel, Matluw, Itaynor), type 

 anartoides. Exp. 24 millim. Type t in Mus. Stockholm. 



Larva feeds on lichen.s on rocks. 



584. Halone sobria. (Plate XX YI. fig. 23.) 



Halone sobria, Wlk. ii. 540 (1854) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 347. 



Mosoda consolatrix, Roseiist. A. M. N. H. (5) xri. ]>. 381 (1885); Kirbyr 



Cat. Het. p. 348. 

 Mosoda hemichroa, Turner, Trans. E. Soc. S. Au.-tr. IS'.i'J, p. 18. 



cJ. Head, thorax, and abdomen black; fore tibiae and tarsi 

 black ringed with wbitish, hind legs pale ; abdomen with the anal 

 tuft and ventral surface yellow. Fore wing fuscous brown irrorated 

 with grey ; indistinct irregularly- dentate subbasal, ante- and post- 

 medial dark lines, the two latter angled inwards in submedian fold, 

 the last bent outwards between veins G and 4 and angled inwards 

 in discal fold. Hind wing orange-yellow, with some fuscous 

 suffusion on aj)ical area. 



Ab. 1. Vertex of head whitish, with black patch; patagia tipped 

 with white ; metathorax with white points ; fore wing with the 

 lines defined by whitish, broadly so on antemedial line from costa 

 to median nervure and on postmcdial line at costa; a terminal 



