SCAPTESYLE. 285 



Genus SCAPTESYLE. 



Type. 



' Scaptest/k, Wlk. n. 578 (lS5i) tricolor. 



Chiriphe, Wlk. xxvi. IG'Jl (1862) monogrammaria. 



Proboscis fully developed ; pal]ji upturned, not reaching vertex of head ; 

 antennse of male ciliated ; tibial with the spurs moderate. Fore wing with 

 vein 2 from beyond middle of cell ; 3 from before angle ; 4, 5 shortly stalked ; 

 7, 8, 9 stalked, 7 from beyond 9 ; 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 2 

 from middle of cell ; 3, 4 stalked ; 5 from above angle; 6, 7 stalked; 8 from 

 middle of cell. 



Sect. I. Fore wing with vein 6 stalked with 7, 8, 9 ; hiud wing with veins 3, 4 

 stalked almost to termen. 



593. Scaptesyle dichotoma. 



Chiriphe dichotoma, Meyr. P. Linn Soc. N. S. W. (2) i. p. 734 (1886) ;. 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 348. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown ; vertex of bead, tegulaSy 



and mesothorax pure white ; 



leg'8 and anal tuft whitish. 



Fore wing white ; the base 



dark brown, emitting a costal 



fascia to the antemedial 



line which is incurved tO' 



costa and giving off in the 



T>- or.1 CI . 1 T T. ^ r. , cell a fascia curving up to the 

 Fig. 201. — Scavtesyle dtchotoma, x- \- l \ ^ -iiYi 



° ^ ^ ' + I costa beyond middle, whence 



an oblique line runs to the middle of the subterminal band which is 



curved, expanding into a patch at apex and ending at tornus ; an 



oblique postmedial line from median nervure to inner margin and a 



spot on middle of termen. Hind wing red-brown. 



Hah. Queensland, Brisbane, 1 c? , Toowoomba ; N. S. Wales. 



Sydney, type t in Coll. Meyrick; Victokia. Exj:). 14-16 millim. 



Sect. II. Fore wing with vein 6 from the cell. 



A. Wings jellow, with terminal black band. 



a. Fore wing with cupreous-red patch on terminal band tricolor. 



h. Fore wing with orange-red patch on terminal band... ixias. 



c. Fore wing with vermilion patch on terminal band... mirabilis. 



d. Fore wing without red patch on terminal band bicolor. 



B. Fore wing yellow, with blue-edged patches on basal and 



terminal areas; hind wing wliiiish atirigena. 



C. Fore wing yellow, with black bands aqitidisians. 



D. Fore wing white, with black lines dictyota. 



E. Wings red-brown ; fore wing with whitish postmedial 



line monogrammaria .. 



594. Scaptesyle tricolor. 



Wlk. ii. 378 (1854) ; Empsn. ] 

 p. 293. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black; tegula) and patagia bright 



Scaptesyle tricolor, Wlk. ii. 378 (1854) ; Empsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 104 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 293. 



