.286 ARCTTADiE. 



*600. Scaptesyle dictyota. (Plate XXVI. fig. 21.) 



CUriphe dictyota, Meyr. P. Linn. Soe. N. S. W. (2) i. p. 735 (1886) ; Kirby, 

 Oat. Het. p. 348. 



S . Head aud thorax yellowish white ; palpi, antennge, i^atagia, 

 and metathoras black ; abdomen ochreous sutfused with fuscous. 

 Fore wing yellowish white ; a black fascia on basal third of costa, 

 emitting a short bar at base and a tooth at its extremity ; the 

 antemedial band erect from cell to inner margin, bent outwards to 

 costa to the postmedial line which is acutely angled inwards to 

 meet it, then outwards on vein 6 and somewhat oblique from cell 

 to inner margin ; a subterminal line excurved to apex and somewhat 

 angled inwards on vein 1 ; a terminal band from apex to vein 3. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown. 



iZa6. Queensland, Toowoomba, type t J in Coll. Meyrick. Eocp. 

 16 millim. 



601. Scaptesyle monogrammaria. (Plate XXYI. fig. 22.) 



Chiriphemonogrammaria, Wlk. xxvi. 1692 (1862) ; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 348, 



Head and tegulse blackish, sometimes greyish ; thorax and abdo- 

 men blackish; anal tuft greyish; wings red-brown. Pore wing 

 with erect slightly waved whitish postmedial line ; the cilia whitish 

 at tips. 



Hah. N. S. Wales, Moreton Bay, 1 ^ , Sydney {Biggies) 1 $ 

 -.type, {Bay nor) 2 c? , 5 $ . Exp. 18 millim. 



Genus CAPRIMA. 



Type. 



Caprima, Wlk. xxxi. 128 (1864) : gelida. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, not reaching vertex of head ; 

 antennae of male ciliated ; tibias with the spurs moderate. Fore wing with vein 

 2 from beyond middle of cell; 3 from before angle; .5 from above angle; 

 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked, 7 from beyond 9. Hind wing with 

 vein 2 ft'om beyond middle of cell ; 8, 4 stalked ; 5 from below angle of disco- 

 cellulars ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 from middle of cell. 



Sect. I. Fore wing with veins 10, 11 from a point or shortly stalked in male. 



A. Medial area of fore aud hind wings white gelida. 



B. Medial area of fore and hind wings yellow. 



a. Tegulaj yellow calida. 



b. Tegulai blue-black. 



«!. Fore wing with the medial yellow band not reaching 



costa , mixta. 



h^. Fore wing with the medial yellow band reaching 



costa ccerulescens. 



602, Caprima gelida. 



Caprima gelida, Wlk. xxxi. 129 (1864); Swinh. Oat. Het. Mus. Oxon. 



p. 61, pi. ii. f. 3; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 59. 

 Ilypocrita albicoUis, Pag. Jahrb. Nass. xxxix. p. 125 (1886) ; Kirby, Cat. Het, 



p. 293. 



