102 AECTIADiE. 



Geuus SCOLIACMA. 



Type. 



Scoliacma, Meyr. P. Liiiu. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i. p. 695 (1886) ... bicolora. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, not reacbing beyond frons 'whicli is 

 Binootbly scaled ; tibise with tbe spurs moderate ; abdomeu clotbed with rough 

 hair. Fore wing narrow ; the costa nearly straight, the termen very obliquely 

 rounded ; vein 2 from middle of cell ; 3 from before angle parallel to 4, or 3, 4 

 stalked; 5 absent; 6usually shortly stalked with 7,8, 9 ; 7 from 8 beyond 9 ; 10 

 from cell; 11 anastomosing with 12. Hind wing with vein 2 from well before 

 angle of cell ; 3, 4 coincident ; 5 absent ; 8 from near middle of cell. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male with fascicles of long cilia and bristles ; fore wing 

 with patch of dark androconia on underside below and beyond the 

 cell, covered by the costa of hind wing, which is very strongly lobed 

 and folded near base, the apex strongly excised ; 6, 7 stalked and 

 bent upwards. 



A. Head and thorax brownish orthotoma. 



B. Head and thorax orange-yellow nephelozona {2)- 



183. Scoliacma orthotoma. 



Scoliacma orthotoma, Meyr. P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i. p. 696 (1886) ; 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 288. 



c? . Head and thorax dull brownish, yellow ; abdomen yellowish. 

 Fore wing dull brownish yellow, the patch of androconia on under- 

 side blaekish. Hind wing yellow. 



Fig. 41. — Scoliacma orthotoma, S , \. 



Nab. Victoria, Melbourne, Eaynor Coll., 1 6 • Exp. 24 millim. 

 Type t in Coll. Meyrick. 



*184. Scoliacma nephelozona. (Plate XX. fig. 25.) 



Tigrioides nephelozona, Meyr, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1889, p. 458 ; Kirby, Cat. 

 Het. p. 341. 



5 . Head and thorax orange-yellow ; antennae fuscous ; patagia, 

 mesothorax, and legs tinged in part with fuscous ; abdomen greyish 

 fuscous, orange-yellow at extremity, on sides and ventral surface. 

 Fore wing ochreous yellow, with obscure diffused fuscous postmedial 

 band oblique from vein 4 to inner margin ; the apex and termen 

 slightly tinged with fuscous. Hind wing pale yellow. 



Hah. I^. Guinea, type f $ in Coll. Meyrick. Ecq). 36 millim. 



Sect. II. Antennse of male with cilia and bristles ; fore wing with strong costal 

 fold and tuft of hair from base of costa ; hind wing with the costa 

 strongly arched. 

 A. Hind wing with an elliptical swelling in cell bisected by a rib down the 

 middle ; veins 6, 7 coincident in male. 



