LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 453 



Female. Hoary. Palpi blackish above towards the base. 

 Abdomen cinereous, partly brown above at the base. Tarsi blackish; 

 tips of the joints hoary. Fore wings with an irregular lanceolate 

 black stripe, which proceeds from near the base of the interior border 

 and is attenuated to the middle of the exterior border ; some slender 

 black streaks between the veins in front of the stripe. Hind wings 

 cinereous. Length of the body 14^ lines ; of the wings 32 lines. 



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



Genus VUNGA. 



Mas. Corpus robustum. Proboscis valida. Palpi porrecti, 

 pilosi, caput non superantes; articulus 3us minimus. Antenna? 

 late pectinatae. Abdomen lanceolatum, alas posticas non superans; 

 latera subfasciculata ; fasciculus apicalis parvus, subfasciculatus. 

 Pedes graciles, late fimbriati; tibiae posticae calcaribus quatuor 

 longis gracilibus. Alae latae, vix dentatae ; anticae vix acuta?, mar- 

 gine exteriore subconvexo sat obliquo ; posticae margine exteriore 

 subflexo. 



Male. Body stout. Proboscis robust. Palpi porrect, pilose, 

 not extending beyond the head ; third joint very minute. Antennae 

 broadly pectinated. Abdomen much more slender than the thorax, 

 tapering from the base to the tip, slightly tufted along each side, 

 not extending beyond the bind wings ; apical tuft small, slightly 

 radiating. Legs slender ; femora and tibiae broadly fringed ; hind 

 tibiae with four long slender spurs. Wings broad ; exterior border 

 very slightly festooned. Fore wings hardly acute ; exterior border 

 slightly convex, rather oblique. Hind wings with the exterior 

 border slightly bent in) the middle, rectangular to the body hind- 

 ward. 



It differs from Colocasia in the structure of the antennae and in 

 the festooned border of the wings. 



VUNGA DELINEATA. 



Mas. Fusca ; caput postice albidum ; thorax fasciis tribus 

 albidis Safurcata; abdomen fuscescente-cinereum, segmentis 

 pallido marginatis ; ala? anticce glauco-cinerece, annulo basali 

 nigro aperto inciso maculam nigricantem atro strigatam 

 includente, fasciis duabus indeterminatis ferrugineis, la 

 lineisque duabus angulosis nigris approximatis, 2a antice 

 bene determinata nigricante marginata strigasque tres nigras 

 includente. 



