LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1053 



Body stout. Proboscis as long as the breadth of the head. 

 Palpi short, porrect, pilose, not extending beyond the head ; third 

 joint very minute. Thorax with clavate hairs. Legs stout; femora 

 and tibiae thickly pilose ; hind tibiae with two moderately long api- 

 cal spurs. Wings rather long. Fore wings straight along the 

 costa, rounded at the tips, oblique and slightly convex on the 

 exterior border ; interior angle rounded ; discal areolet intersected 

 by a secondary vein and obliquely divided by a vein which joins the 

 third inferior vein; second inferior vein about four times further 

 from the third than from the first. Male. — Antennae moderately 

 pectinated to rather beyond half the length, as long as the thorax. 

 Abdomen extending for half its length beyond the hind wings. 

 Wings rather narrow. Female. — Antennas simple, a little longer 

 than the thorax. Abdomen extending for one-third of its length 

 beyond the hind wings. Wings moderately broad. . 



1. Dan ima Banksle. 



Thorax niyro luteo alboque variegatus ; abdomen supra luteo-fer- 

 rugineum lateribus nigro maculatis ; alee anticce fuscce, nigro 

 variegatce, albido luteoque conspersa? ; posticce fuscescentes ; 

 quatuor subtus immaculate. Larva flavo virescens subcau- 

 data fasciis octo obliquis albidis maculisque septem later alibus 

 nigris albo tripunctaiis. 



Bombyx Banksiae, Leivin, Prodr. Ent. 10, pi. 9. 



Harpya Banksiae, Boisd. Voy. de I Astrolabe, Pt. 1, Lep. 238. 



Black. Antennae tawny. Thorax with several luteous and 

 white-tipped hairs; a large white spot on each side. Abdomen 

 luteous above, except at the base and at the tip; a row of black 

 spots along each side. Wings gray. Fore wings with whitish and 

 luteous flecks and with some black streaks. Male. — Hind wings 

 whitish, except at the base and along the interior border. Female. 

 — Abdomen whitish at the tip. 



a, b. Sydney. From the Paris Museum. 



c. Sydney. Presented by the late Earl of Derby. 



d. New South Wales. From Mr. Wood's collection. 



e. Van Dieman's Land. Presented by the Rev. Augustus Beaufort. 

 / — h. New Holland. From Mr. Hunter's collection. 



i. New Holland. 



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