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NOCT 010.53. 



Genus OCHTHOPHORA. 



Type. 



Ochfhophora, Turner, V. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. xxvii, p. 89 (1902) . seric/na. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching 

 to just above vertex of head and slightly fringed with hair above towards 

 extremity, the 3rd long, porroct, and somewhat dilated at extremity ; frons 

 .smooth with ridge of hair above ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male some- 

 ■what laminate and ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the 

 prothorax without crest, the metathorax with very large oblique flattened crest ; 

 i'ore tibite fringed on both sides with long hair, the mid and hind tibitc 

 smoothly scaled ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with 

 the costa highly arched near base, the apex rounded, the termen oblique 

 towards tornus, not crenulate ; veins 3 and .5 from near angle of cell ; (5 from 

 np])er angle : 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a large long areole ; 11 

 from cell. Hind wing with vein 3 from just before angle of cell ; 4, 5 shortly 

 stalked ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell to near middle. 



6(387. Ochthoplora sericina. 



OcJiihojyliora sericina, Turner, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. xxvii. p. 80 (1902). 



Head and thorax pale brown mixed with grey ; abdomen pale 

 brown, white below. Fore wing silky grey suffused with brown 

 except on costal and base of inner areas; basal black points in and 

 below cell; a waved greysnbbasal line from costa to median nervnre 

 and two before the fine oblique irregularly waved black antemedial 

 line ; traces of a waved medial line ; the orbicular and reniform 

 represented by tufts of brown scales with grey annuli ; a fine 

 waved and. dentate black postmedial line, very oblique from costa to 



Fig. 136. — OcJUJwphora sericina, §, 



vein 7, at vein 2 retracted to upper angle of cell, passing round inner 

 side of reniform, then running obliquely outwards to vein 2 and 

 angled inwards in submedian fold ; an indistinct irregularly waved 

 subterminal line. Hind wing semihyaline white, the costa and 

 termen suffused with brown, on latter narrowing to a point at 

 vein 2. 



Hnb. Queensland, Kuranda (Dodcl), 1 $ , Brisbane, type f S in 

 Coll. Turner. Exp. 38 millim. 



