CALATHUSA.— AQIIIS. 385 



inwards in discal and submedian fold, where it is connected with 

 the postmedial line by a tuft of black scales and whitish streak 

 on vein 2 ; a black line before termen and a fine line on termen. 

 Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the termen with fuscous ; 

 the underside white with fuscous terminal band from costa to 

 vein 2. 



Hah. Queensland, Kuranda, type f J in Coll. Turner. Exp. 

 24 millim. 



*6712. Calathusa delosticha. (Plate CLXXXIV. fig. 21.) 



Corula delosticha, Turner, Tr. E. Soc. S. Austr. xxviii. p. 215 (1904). 



c? . Head, tegulse, and fore coxse rufous ; thorax grey with slight 

 brown streaks : abdomen fuscous grey. Fore wing grey ; the veins, 

 cell, and submedian fold strongly streaked with black ; some blackish 

 irroration on costal and inner areas ; antemedial line represented 

 by an oblique black striga from costa to middle of cell ; a double 

 waved postmedial line of raised black scales, slightly incurved at 

 discal and submedian folds, filled in with rufous and with a slight 

 waved black line beyond it ; three black points on costa towards 

 apex. Hind wing brownish grey with bl-oad fuscous terminal band 

 except towards tornus, diffused on inner side ; cilia grey-white. 

 Underside of fore wing fuscous, the costa grey-white with four 

 black points on it towards apex. 



Hab. QuEENSLiND, Eumundi, type t c? in Coll. Turner. Exp. 

 26 millim. 



Larva on Casnarina. 



Genus AftUIS. 



Type. 



Aquis, Wlk. xv. 1652(1858) viridisquama. 



Bantaoia, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 52 (1864) ... allnda. 



Bimifica, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 56 (1864) ... viridisqiiama. 



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

 vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd long ; frons smooth ; eyes 

 large, round ; antennae of male typically with long fasciculate cilia ; thorax 

 clothed almost entirely witli scales, the prothorax without crests, the meta- 

 thorax with depressed crest ; tibiae moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen 

 with dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the 

 termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of 

 cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a long 

 areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 strongly stalked; 5 fully 

 developed from angle of cell ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with 

 the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. {Aquis.) Antennas of male with long fasciculate cilia. 



A. Fore wing with the postmedial line bent outwards below 



costa and incurved below vein 4 viridisquama, 



B. Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique from costa 



to vein 4 aquisoidcs. 



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