LEPIDOPTEUA HETEROCERA. • 1245 



PVRALIS? PQLYGRAPHALIS. 



Fcem. Cervina; palpi porrecti, subfimbriati, caput perpaulfo 

 superantes, articulo So brevisnmo ; antenna vix serrata ; alee 

 pallide cinereo-cervinm, quadrifasciata, cervino subtessellata, 

 fascia la angusta ferru(jinea y 2a lata obscure fusca chdybao 

 suffusa, 3a angusta cervina fusco varia antice attenuate et 

 abbreviate 4a maryinali obscure fusca postice abbreviata ; 

 antica vix acuta, tinea inter fascias lam et '2am undulata 

 obscure fusca, casta diwidio basal i ferruginea, striga postica 

 lata chalybao-fusen. Var. j3. — Pallide ochraceo-cinerea ; alee 

 fasciis saturate ockraceis. 



Female. Fawn-colour. Palpi porreel, slightly fringed, ex- 

 tending very little beyond the head and much shorter than iis 

 breadth; third joint extremely short. Antenna? slender, hardly ser- 

 rated. Abdomen not extending beyond the hind wings. Legs 

 smooth. Wings pale cinereous fawn-colour, with four bands, 

 slightly tessellated with fawn-colour; first band ferruginous, narrow ; 

 second broad, dark brown, chaiybeous-tinired ; third narrow, fawn- 

 colour, partly brown, very slight and much abbreviated in the fore 

 wings; fourth dark brown, marginal, much abbreviated towards the 

 interior angle. Fore wings hardly acute, with a dark brown undu- 

 lating line between the first and second bands; costal space ferru- 

 ginous for half the length from the base, including four pale points ; 

 a broad chahbeous-brown streak along the apical part of the interior 

 border. Var. fi. — Pale ochraceous-cinereous ; the bands of the wings 

 deep ochraceous, slightly chalybeous-tiuged. Length of the body 

 2 J lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 



a, b. Swan River. From Mr. Diggles' collection. 



Pyralis? turbidalis. 



Mas. Fusca; caput obscure fuscum ; palpi pubescentes, verticem 

 longe super antes ; antenna setosce ; pedes laves; ala antica 

 apice rotundata, lineis duabus angulosis fuscis, spatio basalt 

 cervino fusco consperso, lunula discali nigra, lineis duabus 

 submarginalibus cinereis angulosis ; postica albido-cinerea, 

 lunula lineisque duabus exterioribus dentatis fuscis. 



Male. Brown, mostly cinereous beneath. Head and palpi 

 dark brown. Proboscis short. Palpi pubescent, much longer than 

 the breadth of the head, reflexed high above the hind border of the 

 latter; third joint lanceolate, much shorter than the second. Antenna? 



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