70 NOCTT^IDJE. 



ventral surface wliite mixed with brown and fuscous towards 

 extremit}'. Fore wing fuscous brown mixed witb grey and with 

 a faint bluish gloss ; subbasal line indistinctly double, minutely 

 waved, from costa to vein 1 ; two double minutely waved antemedial 

 lines ; orbicular and reniform with slight whitish annuli defined by 

 black, the former minute, round, the latter narrow, oblique ; medial 

 line arising at upper extremity of reniform, at vein 4 bent inwards 

 to lower edge of reniform, then oblique and sinuous ; postmedial line 



Fig, 2G. — raicelu co)igpiciencta, (^ . \. 



double, slightly bent outwards below costa, then slightly waved, 

 incurved below vein 4, another double waved line beyond it, incurved 

 below vein 3; an indistinct waved whitish subterminal line, some- 

 times with slight black streaks beyond it above and below vein 5 ; 

 a terminal series of slight black lunules and fine pale line at base 

 of cilia. Hind wing hyaline white, the terminal area suffused with 

 luscous brown and the veins streaked with fuscous from just beyond 

 the cell ; some white striae on vein 2 towards extremity ; cilia white 

 with a blackish line through them ; the underside with the costal 

 and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a double postmedial series 

 of minute black streaks on the veins. 



Hah. Celejjes ; Queensland, Brisbane {Turner), 1 c? , 2 $ , 

 Moreton Eay (Oihbons, Diggles),2 $ type; N". ArsjKALJA, Adelaide 

 11. (/. /. Wafker), 1 J , Koebuck Bay (/. J. Walker), 2 5 , Tort 

 Darwin (Bucldand), 1 S , Alexandria {Stalker), 1 J ; W- Al^stralia, 

 Sherlock E. (Clements), 5 2, Derby {Lotver), 1 $. Ea^). 24- 

 34 millinl. 



Genus PHLEGETONIA. 



Type. 



FJilegefonia, Guen. JN'oct. ii. p. 301 (1852) catej)hwides. 



TargaUa, Wlk, xiii. 1007 (18o7) delairi.v. 



Crv««s«, Wlk. XV. 1745(1858) hifascies. 



Col^pocheilopteryx, Wllgrn. STensk. Akacl. Handl. t. 4, p. 60 



(1865) operatrix. 



Pi-oboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to middle 

 of frons and broadly scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth, with tuft of 

 scales ; eyes large, round ; antenna of male typically serrate and fasciculate ; 

 thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed and without distinct crests ; tibiae 

 moderately fringed wiih hair; abdomen with some ridges of hair at base, but 

 without crests and with slight paired anal tufts of hair. Fore wing with the 

 apex rounded, the termeu crenulate, oblique or excised below Tein 3; veins 3 

 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell less than 

 ])alf the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from argle ; 5 fully deyeloped from above 

 angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



