372 REVISION OP AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



sub-basal and ante-median fuscous transverse lines; cilia coneolorous. Hind- 

 wings with termen rounded; colour as forewings; rarely a whitish diseal mark 

 before middle. 



Variable in colour and in the development of white lines on forewing of 

 c? in any one locality, but extensive series would show regional variation alsq. 

 None of these forms are specifically distinct. 



N. Aust. : Darwin, Margaret R., Macdonnell Ranges; N. Qland: Claudie R., 

 Cloncurry; Qland: Clermont, Emerald, Gayndah, Brisbane, Mt. Tambourine, 

 Toowoomba, Dalby, Ciiarleville, Cunnamulla; N.S.W. : Sydney; Vict.: Bairns- 

 dale, Birchip; S. Aust.: Adelaide, Mt. Lofty; W. Aust.: Bridgetown, Perth, 

 Northam, Quairading, Cunderdin, Kalgoorlie, Dore Is., Bernier Is. ; N.W. Aust. : 

 Roeburne. 



Gen. 7. Tear a. 



Team, Wlk., Cat. Brit. Mus., iv., p. 851 ; Swin., Cat. Oxf . Mus., i., p. 214. 



Palpi short, porrect, densely hairy. Posterior tibiae with two pairs of spurs 

 rather closely approximated. Forewings with 5 from middle of cell, 6 from 

 areole or from upper angle of cell, 7, 8, 9 stalked, 10 connate from end of 

 areole which is small, 11 from four-fifths. Hindwings with 3 and 4 separate, 5 

 from slightly above middle of cell, 6 and 7 stalked, 12 anastomosing with cell 

 at about one-fourth. 



Distinguished from Ochrogaster by the presence of palpi and of two pairs 

 of spurs on the posterior tibiae. Walker, with his usual looseness, applied the 

 name Teara to many species belonging to more than one family; but the type 

 was fixed by S\yinhoe (loe. cit.) as variegata Wlk. Since then this has remained 

 the only species, but Mr. Hardy's interesting discovery enables me to add a 

 second. 



20. '1'eara variegata. 



Teara. variegata, Wlk., Cat. Brit. Mus., iv., p. 851. 



c?. 48-54 mm. 2. 80-85 mm. Head whitish, erown sometimes partly fus- 

 . cous ; sides of face fuscous. Palpi fuscous ; at apes ochreous-whitisb. Antennae 

 pale-fuscous or whitish. Thorax brownish-fuscous, with a few whitish and 

 reddish hairs, sometimes mostly whitish. Abdomen on dorsum orange-oehreous 

 or reddish-orange, bases of segments blackish, except in centre ; beneath fuscous 

 or whitish. Legs fuscous or partly whitish. Forewings ti'iangular, rather 

 broadly so in ?, costa in <J straight, in S gently arched, apex rounded-rectang-ular, 

 termen bowed, in <? scarcely, in 2 slightly oblique; brownish-fuscous more or less 

 suffused or spotted with white; a dark, dentate, sub-basal line sometimes present; 

 two small reddish diseal spots arranged longitudinally in a variable white area, 

 about middle; a finely dentate dark line from three-fourths costa to two-thirds 

 dorsum, curved slightly outwards beneath costa, thence nearly straight; cilia 

 l!uscous barred with white. Hindwings with termen rounded; fuscous or pale- 

 fuscous; cilia coneolorous with indistinct whitish bars. 



N. Qland: Herberton; Qland: Stradbroke Is., Toowoomba, Stanthorpe; 

 N.S.W. : Newcastle, Sydney; S. Aust.: 



21. Teara pkriblepta, n.sp. 



vepipXeTTTos, admired. 



(?. 44 mm. Head white. Palpi very short, densely hairy; dark-fuscous. 

 Antennae fuscous, apex and base of stalk whitish. Thorax vrhite; patagia with 



