PIIAL^«:XOIDKS. 



hairs sparse, black. Food-plant-, various species of Vifis and Cissus, 

 ol'ten doint^ ^reat damage to vineyards. 

 Cocoon of assrlutinated earth. 



-oo- 



57. PhalaBnoides ardescens. (Plate LII. fig. 13.) 



Aqarida ardescens, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) xiv. p. 405 (18S4) ; Kirbj, Cat. 

 ' Het. p. 22. 



$ . Black ; palpi with the 1st joint, the base, and extremity of 

 2nd atid the base of 3rd pale yellow ; sides of frons, back of head, 

 togiilae, patagia, and vertex of thorax striped with yellow ; pectus, 

 coxae, mid and hind femora and tibiae except at extremity orange ; 

 fore legs and mid and hind tibiaa at extremity and tarsi black ringed 

 with white ; abdomen with patch on base of dorsum and the two 

 terminal segments orange. Fore wing with the submedian interspace 

 beyond the antemedial band and the terminal area suffused with 

 bright red-brown ; a yellowish-white basal maculate band ; a sub- 

 basal point below costa ; an oblique antemedial maculate band from 

 below costa to vein 1 ; a quadrate spot in end of cell; a band beyond 

 the cell from below costa to vein 2, oblique, excurved beyond each 

 angle of cell and angled inwards in median fold, obliquely placed 

 points below it in submedian fold and on vein 1 ; a postmedial 

 series of points on the veins from costa to vein 3, and a subterminal 

 series with larger spot at tornus ; some silvery blue in middle of 

 cell, on discocellulars, and base of vein 2, and above middle of vein 1. 

 Hind wing with the cilia chequered black and white. 



(S . Fore wing with the yellowish bands and spots rather more 

 developed ; cilia with a series of white points. 



Hah. N. Australia, Pt. Darwin, 1 $ type ; Queensland, Cairns. 

 E.vp. 46 millim. 



58. FhalaBnoides tristifica. 



Eutactis tristifica, Hiibn. Zutr. Ex. Schmett. i. p. 28, fF. 165, 166 (1827) • 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 22. 

 Agarista lewinii, Boisd. Voy. Astrolabe, Lep. p. 176 (1832) ; Butl. 111. Het. 



B. M. i. p. 7, pi. 4. f. 2 ; McCoy, Prod. Zool. Vict. i. pi. 8. ff. 1-4. 

 Agarista ephyra, Angas, S. Austmlia 111. pi. '61. f. 20 (1847) ; Herr.-Schaff. 



Aussereur. Schmett. f. 27 ; Butl. HI. Het. B. M. i. p. 8, pi. 4. f 4 • 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 22. 



Cupreous black ; 2nd and 3rd joints of palpi and sides of frons 

 with white points ; back of head, tegulae, and patagia with greenish- 

 ochreous spots ; the hair on femora and mid and hind tibi^ orano-e: 

 tibise and tarsi with white points ; abdomen with lateral series of 

 whitish points, the terminal segment and ventral bauds on last four 

 segments orange. Fore wing with white points at base; a short 

 subbasal ochreous band from costa ; the antemedial ochreous band 

 interrupted in submedian fold ; a quadrate spot in middle of cell, 

 often with another below it on inner area ; a postmedial band 

 from below costa to vein 2, excurved beyond lower angle 

 of cell, and a spot rather nearer the base on inner area, two 

 curved subterminal series of yellowish-white points ; cilia white at 



