1030 CATALOGUE OF 



(ECOPHOEA HONORATELLA. 



Foem. Argenteo-alba ; palpi capitis latitudine duplo longiores ; 

 thorax fascia maculaque postica purpureis ; alee antica cuprece, 

 basi fascia maculisque duabus albis ; posticce cenece. 



Female. Silvery white. Palpi smooth, slender, full twice 

 longer than the breadth of the head ; third joint shorter than the 

 second. Thorax with a purple band in front, and with a purple 

 spot hindward. Abdomen cinereous. Tibiae with a broad cupreous 

 band ; tarsi cupreous, with white-tipped joints. Fore wings cupreous, 

 moderately broad, rounded at the tips, white at the base, with a 

 white band before the middle, and with three exterior white spots ; 

 two spots costal, the third on the interior border; second costal spot 

 much larger than the first; exterior border slightly convex, very 

 oblique. Hind wings aeneous ; fringe long. Length of the body 

 3 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 



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



II 



(ECOPHORA COMPOSITELLA. 



Foem. Nigro-cuprea ; caput antice album ; palpi capitis latitudine 

 duplo longiores, articulo 2o piloso, So nigro apice albo ; alcb 

 anticce sat angustce, apice rotundatce, maculis duabus costalibus 

 una discali obliqua punctoque marginali albis; posticce 

 cinerece. 



Female. Blackish cupreous. Head in front and under side 

 white. Palpi twice longer than the breadth of the head ; second 

 joint pilose in front ; third black, except at the base, as long as the 

 second. Abdomen cinereous. Tibiae and tarsi with blackish 

 cupreous bands. Fore wings rather narrow, rounded at the tips, 

 with three white spots ; first and third spots costal, transverse; first 

 much longer than the second; third oblique, in the disk between 

 the first and the second ; a white point in the fore part of the 

 exterior border, and a small white mark near the interior angle; 

 exterior border slightly convex, very oblique. Hind wings cinereous. 

 Length of the body 4 lines; of the wings 10 lines. 



a. Australia ? 



