1924 CATALOGUE OF 



Genus EUMETA, C. L. H. iv. 964. 



EUMETA SESIOIDES. 



Mas. Obscure fusca, pilosissima ; abdominis fasciculus apicalis 

 coccineus ; alee antica nigro-cinerea, basi ochracece, spatio 

 antemedio obliquo saturate coccineo, linea antemedia litura- 

 que media canis. fascia exteriore obliqua cinerea diffusa cano 

 marginata, gultis submarginalibus ochraceis nigro notatis ; 

 posticce plaga magna trigona ochracea. 



Male. Dark brown, thickly clothed with long hairs. Palpi 

 stout, pubescent, slightly ascending, extending a little beyond the 

 head; third joint very short. Antenna short, very broadly pectin- 

 ated; branches black. Abdomen extending very much beyond the 

 hind wings, tapering from the base to the apical tuft, which is radi- 

 ating and mostly deep crimson. Fore wings blackish cinereous, 

 narrow, slightly acute, obliquely deep crimson for some distance 

 from the base, which is ochraceons; a hoary transverse line near the 

 base; a transverse hoary mark in the disk ; an exterior oblique cine- 

 reous band, diffuse on its inner side, bordered on its outer side by a 

 hardly undulating hoary line ; the latter has near its outer side a 

 slightly undulating line of ochraceous black-marked dots; exterior 

 border straight, extremely oblique. Hind wings blackish cinereous, 

 very short, with a large triangular ochraceous patch along the exte- 

 rior border ; fringe hoary. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 

 18 lines. 



a, b. Moreton Bay. From Mr. Diggles' collection. 



Genus PHRYGAXIDIA. 

 Phryganidia, Packard, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iv. 348. 



Pheyganidia californica. 

 californica, Packard, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iv. 349. 

 California. 



Genus GECOBIA. 

 (Ecobia, Scott, Austral. Lep. 27. 



