266 Mr. F. Walker's Characters of undescrihed Lepidoptera 



obsolete, except towards tlie interior border. Hind-wings with 

 two black discal points on the underside. 



Australia. 



Var. Smaller. Wings with the interior line almost obsolete ; 

 band pale reddish ; the black zigzag line followed by a cor- 

 responding red line. Fore-wings with the discal points purple- 

 bordered. 



Moreton Bay. 



Colussa latifera. 

 Fcem. — Cinerea, D. hamatce valde afRnis, capite fascia nigra, 

 antennis flavis, genubus albis, alis lineis duabus obscure pur- 

 purascentibus, la dentata undulata, 2a recta obliqua extus 

 flavo-marginata, linea exteriore fusca angulosa flavo-margi- 

 nata, alis anticis falcatis basi rufescentibus, linea la dupli- 

 cata, spatio exteriore rufescente. Var. Pallidior. 

 Female. — Cinereous, closely allied to D. hamata (Cat. Lep. 1st 

 Ser. 895). Body slightly tinged with reddish. Head with a 

 black band in front of the antennae, which are yellow. Legs 

 black-speckled; knees white. Wings ample, with an interior den- 

 tate, undulating, dark-purplish line, and with an exterior straight 

 oblique line of the same hue, which is bordered with yellow on 

 the outer side, and is abruptly retracted on the costa of the fore- 

 wings ; a more exterior brown, zigzag, yellow-bordered line, which 

 is nearly obsolete in the fore-wings, except towards the interior 

 boi'der. Fore-wings falcate, reddish about the base, with a basal 

 line, which is the double of the line above mentioned ; a reddish 

 space along the hind part of the exterior line. Hind-wings with 

 the space between the straight line and the zigzag line reddish ; 

 exterior border somewhat truncate at the tip, quadrate hindward. 

 Length of the body 14 lines ; of the wings 38 lines. 

 Australia. 



Var. Paler. Body and basal part of the wings without any 

 reddish tinge ; a broader space on the interior border between 

 the interior line and the exterior line ; exterior reddish space 

 nearly obsolete; a yellowish tinge on the surface between the 

 exterior line and the exterior border. 

 Moreton Bay. 



Colussa directa. 

 Mas.1 — Flavescente cinerea, roseo sub-tincta, capite antico nigri- 

 cante, antennis flavis pectinatis, alis linea interiore nigricante 

 dentata incompleta, linea exteriore rufescente nigra sub-recta 



