﻿LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1043 



longiores. Thorax squamosus. Abdomen subcristatum, alas pos- 

 ticas perpaullo superans. Pedes validi, dense pilosi ; tibiae postica3 

 calcaribus loDgissimis. Alae mediocriter latae, subdenticulatae ; an- 

 ticae apud costam rectae, apice subrotundatae, margine exteriore 

 subconvexo perparum obliquo. 



Diatenes, Guen, Noct. ii. 442. 



Body hardly stout. Proboscis moderately long. Palpi as- 

 cending, almost vertical, not thick ; third joint lanceolate, about 

 half the length of the second. Antennae simple, slender, more than 

 half the length of the body. Thorax squamose. Abdomen slightly 

 crested, extending very little beyond the hind wings. Legs stout ; 

 thickly pilose ; hind tibiae vs^ith very long spurs. Wings moderately 

 broad, slightly denticulated. Fore wings straight in front ; apical 

 angle somewhat round ; exterior border slightly convex, very 

 slightly oblique. 



1. Diatenes gerula. 



AlcB opalino-cinerecE, subdenticulatcB , apud marginem exteriorem 

 minus nitentes ; anticce maculis quinqu£ costalibus cuneatis 

 magnis nigris, la, 3a et 5a lineas transversas nigras sinuatas 

 bene determinatas emittentibus, linea submarginali repanda 

 Integra nigra pallida lineata, macula reniformi annulum sub- 

 rectangulatum fingente ; posticcB lunula lineisque duabus 

 discalibus, 



Diatenes gerula, Guen, Noct, ii. 443, 1317. 



Australia. 



2. Diatenes aglossoides. 



Cinereo'fusca ; caput nigro-fuscum ; palpi nigricantes ; alee lineis 

 transversis undulatis nigricantibus pallida marginatis, lunulis 

 marginalibus nigricantibus ; anticce maculis costalibus nigri- 

 cantibus. 



Diatenes aglossoides, Guen. Noct. ii. 443, 1318. 



a. Tasmania. From Mr. A. J. Smith's collection. 

 h, Tasmania. Presented by R. Butler, Esq. 



4X 



