160 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISIORV. 



SPIRAMIA RECESSA. 



(Plate CXL., Fig. I.) 



Spiramia recessa, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xiv. 

 p. 1322, no. 7 (1858). 



This species is a native of Australia. 



" Male. Brown ; more fawn-colour beneath. Palpi at the 

 base, and femora, with red hairs. Head and fore-part of the 

 thorax blackish-brown. Abdomen bright red, with black con- 

 nected abbreviated sub-triangular bands. Wings slightly paler 

 on the exterior part, where the transverse lines are more dis- 

 tinct, and especially so in the hind-wings, whose sub-marginal 

 lines are denticulated. Fore-wings with the ocellus rather nar 

 rower than that of S. retorta (Linn.), with a black border, which 

 is mostly enclosed in two testaceous lines, its excavated part 

 with a white marginal line ; the exterior lines nearly con- 

 tiguous to the ocellus, and, as usual, retracted in front ; an 

 irregular diffuse discal dark brown band, interrupted by the 

 ocellus. Length of the body, ten lines ; of the wings, twenty- 

 six lines " (Walker). 



FAMILY 



The Bendidce. are East Indian or South American species of 

 moderate size, with the fore- and hind-wings nearly similarly 

 coloured. The wings are generally more or less angulated, 

 and the fore-wings pointed. The eye-spot, which is so con- 

 spicuous in the preceding families, is small or obsolete. 



GENUS HULODES. 



Hulodes, Guenee, Spec. Gen. Lepid. Noct. iii. p. 207 (1852); 

 Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 1334 (1858). 



