510 



noctuid.t;. 



white tinged with brown except on costal area ; cilia white. 

 Underside of fore wing pale brown. 



Eah. W. Afstralia, IJerby (Lower),2 $ ; N.S. Wales (Arnold), 

 1 S , Broken Hill {Lower), 1 $ . Exy. 20 millim. 



Genus HYLOPHILODES, nov. 



Type, TI. orienfcdis. 



Prohoscis fully de^elopecl ; palpi upturned, the 2nrl joint rench'ng to vertex 

 oF head, slender, tlie 3rd long; f'rons smooth; eyes large, round; antennn3 of 

 male almost simple; thorax clothed with hair only and without crests; tibire 

 moderately fringed willi hair; a.hdomen with sliglit hairy crests on two basal 

 segments only, the male with large lateral scale-fans at base. Fore wing with 

 the apex produced and acute, the termen almost straight and not crenulate; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, 

 10 from beyond 7 ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from cell in male, 

 shortly stalked in female; 5 fully developed from angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the subterrainal line strongly angled 



outwards below vein 7 and at middle orientalis. 



B, Fore wing with the subterminal line very indistinct 



and excurved below vein 7 and at middle ruhromarginata. 



6878. HylopMlodes orientalis. 



Halias orientalis, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 132 (1894). 



^ , Head and thorax olive-green shading into white on meta- 

 thorax, the dorsum of thorax with slight rufous streak ; palpi, 

 frons, and antennte rufous ; pectus and legs white, the latter 

 suffused with rufous; abdomen white, dorsally suffused with yellow 

 at base. Fore wing white suffused with pale yellow-green, the 



Fig. 191. — Hylophilodes orientalis, (^ . \. 



costal edge pale rufous ; antemedial line yellow, deSned on inner 

 side by green and on outer by white, straight ; a slight green 

 discoidal lunule ; postmedial line yellow, defined on inner side by 

 white and on outer by green, straight, very oblique from costa near 

 apex to middle of inner margin ; a slight green subterminal line 

 strongly angled inwards at vein 6 and below 3 and outwards above 

 veins 6 and 3 and to tornus ; cilia deep crimson ; the hair on inner 

 margin yellow from antemedial line to tornus. Hind wing white 

 with a faint green tinge except on costal area, the inner area 

 clothed with yellow hair ; the underside pure white with series of 

 blackish points on the cilia from apex to vein 3. 



