LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 



angulosa, linea media albida diffusa, linea exteriore fitsca 

 flavo ochraceoque marginata, reniformi e punctis duobus 

 nigris elongatis ; posiicce margine interiore testaceo piloso. 



Male. Yellow, testaceous beneath. Head, thorax, and wings 

 towards the base with ochraceous marks. Antennae submoniliform, 

 with black rings, very pubescent. Wings except towards the base 

 cinereous, with purple and glaucous reflections. Wings with an in- 

 terrupted black marginal line; fringe whitish. Fore wings with a 

 brown zigzag line limiting the yellow part, and having a diffuse 

 whitish line between it and a more irregular exterior brown line, 

 which is accompanied with yellow and orange; two black elongated 

 points indicating the reniform mark in the whitish band. Hind 

 wings testaceous and pilose along the interior border. Length of 

 the body 4 — 4 J lines ; of the wings 9 — 10 lines. 



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



Genus 5. SAMEA. 



Corpus sat gracile. Proboscis valida, brevis. Palpi breves, 

 porrecti, caput vix superantes ; articulus 3us truncatns, brevissimus* 



| Palpi inaxillares obsoleti. Abdomen alas posticas superans. Pedes 

 sat graciles, calcaribus longissimis. Alae oblonga?, angusta?, semi- 



) hyalinae, subreticulatae ; anticae elongatae, acutae, lituris discalibus 

 bene determinatis. Mas. — Antennae pubescentes. Abdomen at- 



I tenuatum, nonnunquam fasciculis duobus lateralibus. 



. Samea, Guen. Delt. et Pyral. 193. 



Body rather slender. Proboscis stout, short. Palpi short, 

 straight, hardly extending beyond the head; third joint truncated, 

 very short. Maxillary palpi obsolete. Antennae simple, pubescent 

 in the male. Abdomen extending some distance beyond the hind 



I wings, in the male attenuated and in some species furnished with a 

 curled tuft of hairs on each side. Legs rather slender ; spurs ex- 



I tremely long. Wings oblong, narrow, semihyaline, more or less 

 coloured about the veins and about the borders. Fore wings pro- 

 longed towards the acute tips; discal marks very distinct; some 

 black points along the exterior part of the costa. 



