PHAL.ENOII)KS. 



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Genus PHA^L^NOIDES. 



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Phalcefwides, Lewin, Lep. Ins. N.S.W. p. 2 (1805) </l//cince. 



Eutactis, Hubn. Zutr. Ex. Sclimett. i. p. 28 (1827) tristijicus. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi witli the 2nd joint obliquely upturned and 

 fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd porrect and dilated at extremity ; 

 Irons with truncate conical prominence with raised rim at extremity; antennae 

 nearly sintple and slightly dilated before extremity ; head, thorax, femora, fore 

 and mid tibi« clothed with long hair; abdomen of male wi^,h lateral tufts of 

 long hair on b isal segtnents. Fore wing witli vein 2 from towards angle of 

 cell ; 3 from close to angle ; 5 from well above angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a moderately long angle; 11 free. 

 Hind wing with vein 2 from well before angle of cell ; 3, 4 from angle ; 

 T) obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



Sect. I. Wings of male with streaks of ribbed semihyaline membrane in and 

 below cell of fore wing and below vein 8 and in cell of hind wing, the 

 neuration being somewhat distorted ; hind legs with the 1st joint of 

 tarsus long, curved, dilated, and with serrate corneous ridge along 

 upperside for producing sound by friction against each other or the 

 ribbed n)embrane of wings ; mid tibiaa and abdomen smoothly scaled, 

 the anal tuft small. 



51. Phalaenoides tetrapleura. 



Aijarista tetrapleura, Meyr. Trans. E. Soe. S. Austr. xiv. p. 195 (1891) ; 



'Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 897- 

 Phal(enoides albamedia, Lucas, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) vi, p. 301 



(1891). 

 Phakenoides macleayi, Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. p. 157, pi. v. f. 11 



(1892). 



Fig. 2'ib.~Phalanoides tetrapleura, (S . \. 



(S . Black ; pale yellow marks on basal joint of palpi, sides of 

 frons, and behind the eyes, the 2nd joint of palpi streaked with 

 white ; the basal joint of antennae, back of head, tegulae, patagia, 

 and thorax with pale yellow points ; pectus with orange hair ; 

 tibiae and tarsi with white points ; abdomen with yellowish-white 

 segmental rings, the anal tuft and lateral tufts at base orange. 

 Fore wing irrorated with a few bluish-white .scales ; an oblique 

 series of six yellow spots from costa beyond middle to vein 2 near 

 termen in echelon of three, two, and one spots, a few bluish-white 

 scales beyond the spots and a series of slight postmedial streaks on 



