104 AECTIAD^. 



*187. Scoliacma Ibrunnea. (Plate XX. fig. 26.) 



ScoUacma bninnca, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) iv. p. 201 (1899). 



2 . Head, tegulse, and patagia except at tips orange-yellow ; 

 palpi dark at tips; thorax and abdomen brown with a slight purplish 

 tinge, the extremity and ventral surface, the coxse and femora orange. 

 Fore wing red-brown. Hhid wing darker brown. 



Hah. ]Sf. Guinea, Port Moresby (Goldie), typef $ in Coll. Druce. 

 B.v-p. 34 millim. 



*188. Scoliacma pactolias. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 22.) 

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



Cat. Het. p. 288. 

 Tigrioicles acosma, Turner, Trans. E,oy. Soc. S. Austr. 18S9, p. 10. 



Head, thorax, abdomen, and legs ochreous yellow ; palpi and 

 antennae fuscous. Fore wing ochreous yelloAv irrorated with a few 

 fuscous scales. Hind wing pale ochreous yellow. 



Hah. N. Qtteenslakd, Johnstone R., type t $ acosma in Coll, 

 Turner ; Victokia, Melbourne. Exp. 31 millim. 



Genus LEPISTA. 



Type. 



Lepisfa, Wllgrn. Wien. ent. Men. vii. p. 146 (1863) panclula. 



Byphlebia, Feld. Eeis. Nov. p. 4 (1874) pandula,. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi roughly sealed, porrect, not extending beyond 

 frons, vrhicb is rounded ; antennce of male serrate and fasciculate ; tibia? with the 

 spurs short ; abdomen clothed with rough hair. Fore wing narrow, the costa 

 nearly straight, the termen shovt; vein 2 from well before angle of cell, oblique ; 

 3, 4 coincident ; 5 absent ; 6, 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10 free ; 11 from towards end of cell, 

 anastomosing with 12. Hind wing with vein 2 well before angle ; 3, 4 coincident; 

 5, absent ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 from middle of cell. 



A. Fore wing orange, with terminal black band fcindula. 



B. Fore wing leaden grey, with orange costal fascia semiochracea. 



189. Lepista pandula. 



Lithosia pandula, Eoisd., Delegorgue, Voy. Afr. Austr. ii. p. 597 (1847); 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 313. 

 ByphUhia trimenii, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 106. f. 32 (1874). 

 Byphlebia limbata, Butl. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 98 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 313. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; orange patches between 

 antennae and on shoulders ; hind tibiae mostly orange ; abdomen 



with the anal segment and 

 ventral surface orange ; 

 wings orange. Fore wing 

 with black patch at base of 

 inner area ; the terminal 

 third black, its inner edge 

 angled iuAvards at veins 

 Y\g. A4..-Lepida pandula, S. \. and 1. Hind wing with the 



terminal third black, narrowing to a point at tornus. 



2 . Head mostly orange ; abdomen with the ventral surface black, 

 leaving the extremity and lateral stripes orange. 



