546 AGARlSTIDiE. 



white bands, slight lines between the somites and the spiracles 

 white ; the penultimate somite crimson on dorsum and sides ; the 

 terminal segment with one white band ; each somite with about 

 eight white setae dilated and flattened at extremity. Food-plants, 

 Lorantlius jpendulus and Casuarina. 



Genus CRURIA. ^ 



Type. 



Cruria, Jord. Nov. Zool. iii. p. 39 (1896) donovani. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with long 

 liair in front, the 3rd naked, porrect ; frons vrith truncate conical prominence 

 •with raised rim at extremity ; antenna; nearly simple, slightly dilated towards 

 apex ; tibiae smoothly scaled ; abdomen of male with protrusible lateral tufts of 

 long hair from 2nd segment, the claspers large. Fore wing with vein 3 from 

 well before angle of cell; b fro'ti just above angle; 6 from just below upper 

 angle; 9, 10 anastomosing with 7, 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind 

 wing with vein 3 fiom close to angle of cell ; 6 obsolescent from middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



A. Abdomen with the bands pale yellowish donovani. 



B. Abdomen with the bands orange. 



a. Wings with the markings white Tieptioides. 



h. Wings with the markings pale yellow darviniensis. 



c. Wings wilh the markings orange-yellow platyxantha. 



39. Cruria donovani. 



Agarista donovani, Boisd. Voy. Astrolabe, Lep. p. 176 f 1832) ; Herr.-ScljaiT. 

 Aussereur. Schmett. f. 28 ; Butl. 111. Het. B. M.' i. p. 9, pi. iv. f. 7 ; 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 23. 



Elack ; palpi with pale yellow stripes at sides ; frons at sides and 

 gulae yellow ; back of head with yellow points ; tegulse edged with 

 yellow, a band across mesothorax and patagia ; pectus, coxae, and 



Fig. 241. — Cruria donovani, ^. \. 



femora with orange hair, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen 

 with pale yellow bands, the anal tuft and claspers tipped with 

 orange. Fore wing with oblique white streak from below middle of 

 cell to base of inner margin ; some white scales on subcostal nervure 

 and a slight streak above middle of vein 1 ; a white band across end 

 of cell ; two rather obscure spots beyond lower angle above veins 2 

 and 3 ; postmedial spots above and below vein 6 and others nearer 



