26 NOCTtJIDJE. 



blackish ; abdomen reddish ochreous suffused with Hack except at 

 base and extremity. Fore wing purplish grey slightly irrorated with 

 whitish, the base of inner margin yellowish white ; subbasal line 

 represented by small black spots below costa and cell, with fiery- 

 red points before and beyond them ; antemedial line black defined 

 by whitish on inner side, with slight fiery-red and black streak 

 before it in cell and red point on it in submedian fold, oblique and 

 slightly waved ; claviform represented by a black patch ; orbicular 

 and reniform black incompletely defined by fiery red, the former 

 round, the latter lunulate; slight medial dark marks in submedian 

 fold and on vein 1 ; postmedial line formed of small black lunules 

 defined by whitish on outer side, slightly excurved from costa to 

 vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line whitish, with series of 

 orange-red spots on it and defined on inner side by wedge-shaped 

 black marks, slightly excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a 

 terminal series of small black lunules defined on inner side by 

 orange-red lunules ; cilia with fine whitish line at base. Hind wing 

 reddish brown ; cilia ochreous at base, whitish at tips and brownish 

 at apex ; the underside whitish tinged with ochreous, the terminal 

 area broadly black-brown from costa to vein 2, a small black dis- 

 coidal lunule and indistinct curved postmedial line. 



Hub. ViCTOKiA, Gisborne (Li/ell), 1 c? , 1 2 '■> Tasmania {Milligan, 

 Smith, Green), 5 c? , 3 5 , type trilineata. Exp. 44-46 millim. 



Larva. Lidgett, ' Transformation of Australian Lepidoptera,' p. 15, Gis- 

 borne, 1893. 



Dull yellowish dorsally, laterally tawny brown ; dorsal and sub- 

 dorsal stripes, the former ending at 11th somite, the latter at 10th, 

 the area between them dull yellow, with fine, waved, interrupted, 

 dark lines, broader on thoracic somites; lateral line white, enclosing 

 the black spiracles on the three anal somites ; prolegs fuscous, with 

 a yellow dash on outer side ; head very small, with ochreous 

 A-shaped mark in front ; a few short hairs. Food-plant, Urtica. 



Cocoon slight, web-like, the dark red-brown pupa seen through it. 



Genus AMPHIPYRA. 



Type. 

 Amphipyra, Ocbs. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 70 (1816), non descr. ; 



Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. (i.) p. 276 (1825) tragopoginis. 



Pyrois, Hiibn. Verz. p. 208 (1827) cmnaviomea. 



ScotopMLa, ]lvihn.\evz. p. 208 (1827) livida. 



Tyrophila, Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 164 (1829) ... tragopoginis. 



Philopyra, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. vii. p. 116 (1838) pyramidea. 



Pyrophila, Hiibn. Tent, ined fyramidea. 



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

 bead and smoothly scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth ; eyes large, 

 round ; antennae simple ; tboi-ax smoothly clothed with hair and hair-like 

 scales and without crests; bibioe moderately fringed with hair; abdomen dor- 

 sally flattened, with some rougli hair at base and lateral fringes of hair, but 

 without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved 

 and slightly crenukte ; veins 3 and 5 fj-om near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the arcole ; 11 I'rom fell. 



