﻿LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1361 



beneath. Head in front, palpi, fore part of the thorax on each side 

 and legs dark brown. Palpi whitish on the inner side. Abdomen 

 luteous, darker beneath. Fore wings slightly speckled with black, 

 a little darker towards the exterior border; a whitish transverse in- 

 terior line ; orbicular and reniform pale brown with darker borders 

 slightly marked with black, the former reduced to a small dot, the 

 latter elongated and much excavated on its outer side; two exterior 

 incomplete indistinct dark brown undulating lines, of which the 

 inner one has a pale border ; an indistinct undulating submarginal 

 ferruginous line, which near the costa is contiguous to two black 

 partly white-bordered spots. Hind wings luteuus, with a very 

 broad marginal black band which is much attenuated towards 

 the interior angle. Wings beneath ferru^^inous exteriorly ; fore 

 wings with a very large exterior blackish subquadiate patch. 

 Length of the body 12 lines; of the wings 27 lines. Female, 

 — Like the male, but pale slate-colour instead of cinereous. 

 Antennae black. Abdomen black at the tip. Fore wings luteous 

 along the costa ; the interior pale line not undulating as in 

 the male, but slightly curved ; reniform spot larger; a whitish ex- 

 terior slightly curved exterior line accompanied by some brown 

 points ; a brown marginal band, accompanied by two black white- 

 bordered streaks, one by the costa, the other by the interior angle, 

 some black points between them. Hind wings with the band not 

 joining the border, and much abbreviated towards the interior 

 angle. 



a, 6. Moreton Bay. From Mr. Diggles' collection. 



Genus 7. OPHYX. 



Corpus validum. Proboscis tenuis. Palpi subrecti, oblique 

 ascendentes, bicolores ; articulus 2us tenuis, laevis, dense pilosus: 

 3us compressus, apice truncatus, 2i triente non longior. Antennae 

 crenulatae, validae, corporis dimidio longiores. Thorax laevis, vix 

 convexus, antice abbreviatus, rotundatus. Abdomen alas posticas 

 non superans. Alae velutinae, concolores, lituris vix diversis, ciliis 

 abbreviatis ; anticae suboblongae, subacutae, margine exteriore sub- 

 convexo subobliquo. Fcem. — Antennae setis paucis brevissimis. 



Ophyx, Guen. Nod. iii. 233. 



Body stout. Proboscis slender. Palpi of two colours, almost 

 straight, obliquely ascending, seconnd joint slender, smooth, 

 densely pilose ; third compressed, truncate at the tip, about one- 

 third of the length oi' the second. Antennae crenulate, stout, 



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