130 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



PANTYDIA SPARSA. 



(Plate CXXX., Fig. 3.) 



Pantydia sparsa, Guenee, Spec. Gen. Lepid. Noct. ii. p. 437 

 (1852); Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 1038, 

 no. i (1857). 



This is an Australian Moth, which measures rather less than 

 an inch and a half in expanse. 



The fore-wings are light grey, slightly tinted with greenish, 

 and marked with short black striae. The sub-terminal line is 

 slender, and nearly straight ; it is yellow, slightly bordered 

 with reddish, preceded by small cuneiform black marks on 

 each nervure, and followed by larger ones, marked with 

 reddish at the base, and interrupted in the middle of the wing. 

 The reniform stigma is indicated by a few black atoms. There 

 is a row of small terminal dots between each two nervures. 



The hind wings are grey, paler towards the hind margin. 

 The under side is grey, with terminal dots, and a well-marked 

 black sub-terminal line. The second joint of the palpi is 

 brown, with the extremity white. 



FAMILY HOMOPTERID^E, 



GENUS NEPHELINA. 



Erebus (Omopterus), Gudrin, Icon. R. Anim. ii. pi. 89, fig. 3 



(larva), (1829); iii. p. 522 (1844). 

 Homoptera, Guenee, Spec. Gen. Lepid. iii. p. 8 (1852); 



Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 1052 (1857), 



nom. prceocc. 



The antennae are rather long, ciliated, and verticillate in 

 the male, but short and simple in the female. The palpi 

 are ascending, and the proboscis is of moderate length. The 

 body is stout, and, as well as the legs, is very hairy ; there 



