OXYTRIPIA. 



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■underside with the costal area irrorated with brown ; a discoidal 

 spot. 



2 . Hind wing with the basal area suffused with brown. 

 Ifab. N. Queensland, 1 $ ; ? Victoria, type t 6 acmopliora in 

 Coll. Meyrick ; ? Hab. 1 6 type. Exp. .34 millim. 



Genus OXYTRIPIA. 

 Oxytripia, Staud. Cat. Lep. Eur. p. 98 (1871), non descr 



Type. 



orbiculosa. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, fringed with long hair below, and 

 hardly reaching beyond the frons, which is smooth, rounded ; eyes small, 

 reniform ; antenute of male bipeotinate with short branches to apes ; head and 

 thorax clothed with scales, prothorax with slight s^jreading crest, the meta- 

 thorax with large crest ; tibi;\! fringed with hair, the mid and hind tibiffi spined ; 

 abdomen clothed with rough hair and with lateral tufts of hair. Fore wing 

 with 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 veins 

 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; (i, 7 from 

 upper angle. 



224. Oxytripia orhiculosa. 



Nocfioa orbiculosa, Esp. Schmett. Suppl. iv. p. 93, iii. pi. 93. f. 8 (1786); 

 Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett. ii. pp. :294, 3.31, pi. 13. ff. 63, 64; Friv. 

 Jell. pi. V. f. 8; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 168. 



Head and thorax fuscous brown, with a few black scales ; palpi 

 fringed with white below, tegulge white in front, the vertex of 

 thorax sometimes pinkish ; pectus and legs white, the fore and mid 

 tibias with black bands ; abdomen fuscous black, with white seg- 

 mental bands, rhe lateral and anal tiifts pale rufous, the ventral 

 surface white. Eore wing dark olive-brown, irrorated with black 

 and tinged with purple-grey ; an excurved subhasal black line from 

 costa to vein 1, defined by white on outer side and with slight 

 pinkish marks beyond it in and below cell and above inner margin ; 



Fig. 43. — Oxylripia orbiculosa, (^ . \. 



the antemedial line oblique, minutely waved and defined by white 

 on outer side ; claviform small, defined by black ; orbicular round, 

 deep blue-grey with black-centred whitish annulus and defined by 

 black ; reniform large, white, rounded, its lower extremity rather 

 produced, some blue-grey and a whitish lunule defined by black 

 above, a black spot on its inner side and some ochreous and black 

 on outer ; a waved black line from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin; the postmedial line dentate, defined by grey on outer side, 



