492 jS^OCTPIDiE. 



Snbsp. 1. 5 . Smaller ; fore wing without the pale line at base 

 of cilia. 



Hab. Canada, Yancouver I, (J. J. Walker), 1 $ . E^vj:). 36 

 millim. 



Genus AUSTEAMATHES, nov. 



Type, A. purpurea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of 

 head, fringed with long hair in front, the ord long ; frons smooth ; eyes large, 

 rounded ; antenna; of female ciliated ; head and thorax smoothly clothed with 

 hair and hair-like scales, the prothorax with large divided crest, the metathorax 

 with spreading crest ; pectus clothed with long hair ; abdomen with some rough 

 hair at base but witnout crests. Fore wing rather broad, the termen evenly 

 curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of ceil ; 6 i'rom upper angle ; 9 from ] 

 anastomosing with S to form the ai-eole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of disco- 

 cellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



2715. Austramathes purpurea. 



Gra/pliiphora purpurea, Butl. Oist. Ent. ii. p. 490 (1879) ; Hudson, New 



Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 8, pi. v. f. 32. 

 Xanthia ceramodcs, Meyr, Trans. N. Z. Inst. six. p. 31 (1887). 



$ . Head and thorax deep purple-red Avith a few white scales ; 

 palpi ochreous in front ; tegulse and prothoraeic crest tipped with 

 ochreous ; pectus rufous ; abdomen red-brown, paler at base, darker 

 at extremity. Fore wiug deep purple-red, irrorated with a few 

 white scales ; subbasal line represented by vfYdie points below 



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Fig. 165. — Austra.iiiafhes 'purjjurca., 5. \- 



costa and cell ; antemedial line indistinct, defined by white scales, 

 oblique, dentate ; an oblique white and black line across cell repre- 

 senting outer edge of orbicular, connected by a U-shaped mark 

 with black-brown spot in it with the reniform which is defined 

 by white, small and constricted at middle, partly open below and 

 with a short black-brown streak beyond it ; postmedial line indis- 

 tinct, defined by Avhite scales on outer side, slightly bent outwards 

 below costa, then dentate, excurved to vein 4, then oblique and 

 incurved in submedian fold, some whitish points beyond it on 

 costa ; hardly a trace of the subterminal line ; a terminal series of 

 slight dark points. Hind wing ochreous, suffused Avith red-brown 

 on basal half, deep red-brown on terminal half; cilia whitish, at 

 tips ; the underside ociireous thickly irrorated with red-brown ; a 



