IIEL10STA. — MECALOBOSIA. 



587 



Fore wing orange ; the costal edge black to the black medial band 

 which is slightly excurved in cell ; a subterminal band from costa 

 before apex to tornus, its outer edge angled outwards below costa 



Fig. 168.- — Heliosia cliaropa, £ 



and its inner inwards in discal fold ; cilia black. Hind wing 

 orange, the terminal third black, the outer edge of orange area 

 excurved at middle ; a slight orange apical spot. 



Hob. Queensland, Townsville, type f cS in Coll. Turner. Exp. 

 22 millim. 



Genus MEGALOEOSIA, nov. 



Type, M. recurviloba. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, slender, reaching' to about middle 

 of frons ; antennas of male ciliated ; tibiaj with the spurs long. Fore wing 

 long and narrow, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved, the inner margin 

 arched near base then somewhat excised to tornus, the costa of male with very 

 large lobe recurved over upperside to near inner margin and extending from 

 near base to well beyond middle, and a patch of androconia on underside at 

 lower angle of cell ; the cell short ; vein 2 from near angle of cell ; 3, 4 from 

 angle ; 5 absent ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked, 7 from beyond 9 ; 10, 

 11 from cell ; 12 curved up to the lobe. Hind wing ample, the costa arched, 

 then excised at apex ; vein 2 from middle of cell ; 3, 4 stalked ; 5 from above 

 angle ; 6, 7 coincident ; 8 from middle of cell and bent downwards towards 

 extremity. 



In key differs from Stenoscaptia in the hind wing having veins 3, 4 stalked. 



*579y. Megalobosia recurviloba. 



Garudinodes recurviloba, Eoths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 232 (1912), c$. 

 6 • Head, teguke, and prothorax yellowish white, the palpi, 



antenna?, and rest of thorax deep cupreous brown ; pectus and legs 

 yellowish white, the tibia' and tarsi tinged with red-brown ; abdomen 



