^26 CATALOGUE OF 



Gastrina cristaria, Guen Phal. i. 224, 335, pi. 5, f. 4. 

 Australia. 



2. G A STEIN A ?* EREBINA. 



Mas et fcem, Albido-cinerea ; caput fusco bifasciatum; palpi 

 pilosi, caput superantes, articulo So conico distincto ; antennae 

 maris pectinatce, apice serratce ; thorax fusco fas ciatus,postice 

 ferrugineus ; abdomen non cristatum ; alee lineis duabus 

 nigris undulatis remotis subparallelis ferrugineo marginatis. 



Male and female. Whitish cinereous, white beneath. Head 

 with two brown bands. Palpi pilose, extending beyond the front ; 

 third joint conical, distinct. Antennae of the male moderately pec- 

 tinated, minutely serrated towards the tips. Thorax with a brown 

 band in front ; hind part ferruginous. Abdomen not crested, with 

 two brown bands at the base, and in the male with lateral tufts 

 towards the tip. Hind tibiae incrassated, with moderately long 

 spurs. Wings thinly black-speckled, distinctly denticulated ; inte- 

 rior and exterior lines black, undulating, far apart, nearly parallel 

 to each other, difFusedly and irregularly ferruginous-bordered ; a 

 distinct black discal lunule; under side with a very broad black 

 submarginal band. Length of the body 7 — 8 lines ; of the wings 

 18—20 lines. 



a, b. Tasmania. Presented by M. Allport, Esq. 



Genus 9. SYNOPSIA. 



Corpus robustum. Caput parvum. Proboscis subobsoleta. 

 Palpi graciles, breves, disjuncti, frontem non superantes ; articulus 

 3us minimus. Antenna? maris pectinatae. Thorax latus, quadratus, 

 fasciculatus. Abdomen maris conicum, item, latum subovatum... 

 Pedes breviusculi, subpilosi ; tibiae posticae non dilatatae. Alae 

 amplae, nebulosae, denticulatae ; anticae apice subrotundatae, margine 

 exteriore sat obliquo. 



Synopsia, H'ubn. Verz. Schm. 317; Lederer / Guen. Phal. i. 225. 

 Boarmia, p. Treit.; Dup.; Frey.; Boisd.; Herr.-Sch. 



Body stout. Head small. Proboscis rudimentary. Palpi 

 slender, short, remote, not extending beyond the front ; third joint 

 very minute. Antennae rather broadly pectinated in the male, 

 simple in the female. Thorax broad, quadrate, with a dorsal tuft. 

 Abdomen conical in the male, broad and subovate in the female. 



