dbu revision op australian lepidoptera, 



4. Gasteidiota adoxima. 



Andraoa adoxima, Turn., Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust., 1902, p. 184. 



<?. 40-42 mm. Head pale-ochreous. Antennae very short (one-sixth), pec- 

 tinations 12; fuscous. Thorax, abdomen and legs reddish-ochreous Or oehreous- 

 grey; anterior margin of thorax sometimes paler. Forewings triangular, rather 

 elongate, costa straight to three-fourths, thence slightly arched, apex round- 

 pointed, termen longer than dorsum, bowed, oblique; reddish-ochreous or ochreous- 

 gi-ey; sometimes a pale-centred, fuscous, discal spot beneath costa slightly before 

 middle; sometimes a suilused fuscous blotch on base of dorsum; sometimes a 

 strongly rounded fuscous line from one-fifth costa to mid-dorsum; a reddish or 

 fuscous line from two-thirds costa, strongly rounded beneath costa, then nearly 

 parallel to termen to four-fifths dorsum; cilia brownish-fuscous. Hindwings 

 with termen obtusely bent in middle; reddish or brownish; apical half of termen 

 broadly pale-ochreous-grey ; cilia pale-ochreous-grey, towards tornus reddish or 

 brownish. 



The two examples I have before me differ considerably in coloration and 

 distinctness of marking. 



Qland: Blackall Range, near Nambour (in Coll. Lyell), Brisbane. 



Unrecognised Species 



All species described by Meyrick, Lucas, and Lower under the generic name 

 Bomhyx are incorrectly so referred, and belong to the Lasiocampidae. They will 

 be dealt with under that family. 



Index to Bombycidae. 



Genera. 



Gastridiota . . .3. Mallodeta . . . . 2. Panacela . . . . 1. 



Species. 



Synonyms in italics. 



adoxima .4. jjilosa 1. syntropha . . . . 2. 



lewinae 1. rufescens 1. transiens 1. 



nyctopa 3. sobria 1. 



Fam. EUPTEROl'IDAE. 



Tongue absent. Labial palpi short or moderate. Antennae bipectinated to 

 apex in both sexes. Tibial spurs short. Frenulum present or absent. Fore- 

 wings with cell small, 1 absent, 5 from middle, above middle, or from upper 

 angle of cell, 7, 8, 9 stalked, 10 short or absent. Hindwings with cell short, 1 

 absent, 5 from middle, above middle, or from upper angle of cell, 12 diverging 

 widely from cell at or near base. 



The conception of this family has been obscured by the inclusion with it of 

 the Cnethocampa group. By their removal, it is left with only two Australian 

 genera represented by three species. Hampson records some forty species in his 

 Moths of India. In his key to the families of the Lepidoptera (Nov. ZooL, 1918, 

 p. 388) the Eupterotidae are differentiated from the Notodontidae by the absence 

 of vein 9. This seems to me an unsatisfactory character, and is not strictly 

 correct, as vein 10 separates from 9 in the genus Cotana. The best distinction 



