376 NOCTUID^. 



ending at tornus, the outer line sligbtly dentate, a dentate dark 

 brown subterminul line and dark brown terminal line. Underside 

 of both wings ochreous, the terminal area suffused with red-brown, 

 discoidal spots black-brown, large on fore wing. 



Hab. W. Australia, bherlock K. {Clements), Id, -2- Exp. 

 36-44 millim. Type f in Mas. Oxon. 



Genus AMPHORACERAS. 



lype. 



Amphoraceras, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xi. p. 427 (1904j rothschildi. 



Proboscis fuUj' developed ; palpi upturned to well above vertex of head, tlie 

 2nd joint very thickly fringed with hair, the 3rd dilated into a rounded knob ; 

 frous and vertex of head tufted with hair ; antennas of male with the shaft very 

 strongly dilated at base and with fringe of hair curled over 0!i upperside 

 forming an ear-like structure, the terminal part of shaft ciliated ; thorax 

 clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the pro- and metathorax with crests ; 

 pectus and femora thickly clothed with hair; mid tibice strongly spined, hind 

 tibiffi with a few spines between tlie spurs ; abdomen dorsally clothed with long 

 hair on basal halt and with thick crests on 1st two segments. Fore wing with 

 the apex produced and acute, the termen obliquely curved, the inner margin 

 strongly curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 y from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the long areole ; 11 from cell; the 

 underside in male with the cell clothed with long hair and the disk with fringes 

 of rough hair. Hind wing with the cell less than half the length of wing ; 

 veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 from just above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 

 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



*7486. Amphoraceras rothschildi. 



Ainphoraceru& rolhschildi. Beth.-Baker, Kov. Zool. xi. p. 428, pi. v. f. 1 

 (1904). 



J . Head and tegulse rufous, paler in front ; thorax grey mixed 

 with rufous, the metathoracic crest rufous and black ; pectus orange ; 

 legs brown towards extremity ; abdomen orange with large dorsal 

 black patch extending to beyond middle, the crests greyish. Pore 

 wing greyish sparsely irrorated with black and suffused with rufous 

 especially beyond the postmedial line below vein 5; the veins of 

 terminal area streaked with greenish ; subbasal line slight, waved, 

 from costa to submedicin fold; antemedial line rufous, indistinctly 

 triple filled in wil-h violaceous, excurved, but incurved in cell; 

 orbicular black with pale purplish annulus; reniform violaceous 

 grey with rather irregular black outline and five black spots in its 

 centre, some dark grey suffusion between and below the stigmata ; 

 postmedial line double, indistinct, diffused and oblique from costa 

 to vein 6, then triple, rufous filled in with violaceous, very oblique, 

 somewhat sinuous below vein 2 and connected with the antemedial 

 line at vein 1 and inner margin, a slight black streak beyond it 

 above vein 5 ; a semicircular dark rufous patch on costa towards 

 apex; a subterminal series of small rufous spots. Hind wing with 



