1766 CATALOGUE OF 



luteacente nigro notata, macula media nigra, spatio marginali 

 fusca linenm alb am dentatam includente, venis postmediis 

 albis ; posticce albido-cinerece. 



Male. Whitish. Frontal tuft porrect, acute. Palpi porrect, 

 fawn-colour on the outer side, very much longer than the breadth of 

 the head ; third joint lanceolate, shorter than the second. Antenna- 

 smooth, slender. Thorax with a brown stripe on each side. Abdo- 

 men extending much beyond the hind wings; apical tuft elongate. 

 Legs slender; fore legs mostly brown. Fore wings with two brown 

 stripes; first stripe costal; second bordered with black in front, ex- 

 tending from the base to a black spot in the disk; an intermediate 

 brown black-marked stripe widening from the base to a broad brown 

 marginal space, which includes an acutely dentate white line; veins 

 white at the end of the areolet; marginal points black. Hind 

 wings whitish cinereous. Length of the body 7 lines; of the 

 wings 20 lines. 



a. Tasmania. Presented by Morton Allport, Esq. 



Genus TAUBA. 



Mas. Corpus sat robustum. Fasciculus frontalis porrectus, 

 acutus. Proboscis brevissima. Palpi labiates et maxillares porrecti, 

 graciles, lanceolati, subaeqnales, capitis lalitudine bretiores; arti- 

 culus 3us 2o brevior. Antennae robustae, setulosae, 6ul : arti- 



culus lus i n era ssatus, corn u parvo porrecto armatus. Abdomen alas 

 posticas perpaullo superans; segment urn apicale elongatum, fascicalo 

 rninimo. Pedes sat validi ; tibiae posticae subfiinbriatae. Ala* 

 anticae elongatae, sat augustte, apice rotundatae, margiue exteriore 

 perobliquo. 



Male. Body rather stout. Frontal tuft porrect, acute. Pro- 

 boscis very short. Labial palpi porrect, slender, lanceolate, shurtei 

 than the breadth of the head; third joint lanceolate, shorter than 

 the second. Maxillary palpi as long as the labial palpi and hardly 

 differing from them. Antennae stout, setulose, minutely serrated; 

 first joint incrassated, armed at its tip with a porrect lanceolate 

 appendage. Abdomen extending very little beyond the hind wiu^s ; 

 apical segment elongated, with a very small tuft. Legs moderately 

 long, rather stout; hind tibiae slightly fringed ; spurs long, slender. 

 Wings elongate, rather narrow. Fore wings rounded at the tips; 

 costa straight ; exterior border convex, rather oblique. 



