﻿LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCEEA. 1385 



Australia. 



36. Ophisma resignans. 



Foera. Pallide cervina; caput, palpi, pectus et pedes fusca ; tihice 

 anticcE pallide cervince ; alee punctis marginalibus nigris alho 

 notatis ; anticce exlus nigro suhconspersce, fascia media lata 

 diffusa obscuriore extus alho subrnarginata, gutta antica con- 

 tigua nigra, orbiculari e gutta parva fusca, reniformi subobso- 

 leta ; posticce fusco conspersce. 



Female. Pale fawn-colour. Head, palpi, pectus and legs 

 brown. Palpi on the inner side and fore tibise pale fawn-colour. 

 Fore winjrs slightly speckled with black exteriorly, paler towards the 

 base than along the exterior border, and with a still darker broad 

 diffuse middle band, which is broadest in front, slightly and incom- 

 pletely bordered with white on its exterior side, and accompanied 

 ihere by a black dot at one-third of" the breadth of the wing from 

 ihe costa ; orbicular mark indicated by a small brown dot ; reni- 

 form almost obsolete ; a row of black white-marked marginal points, 

 which also appears on the hind wings ; the latter speckled with 

 brown, except towards the base. Wings beneath slightly ch)uded 

 with pale brown. Length of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 22 

 lines. 



a. Moreton Bay. Presented by — Gibbons, Esq. 



Polynesia. 

 37. Ophisma prisca. 



Ferruginea ; caput purpurascens ; abdomen cinereofuscum ; alee 

 anticcE purpurascentes, fasciis duabus basalibus testaceis cer- 

 vino inter lineatis, reniformi testacea subdiiusa fusco noiata^ 

 lineis duabus exterioribus denticulatis fuscis, linea submargi- 

 nali fusca testaceo marginata, plaga costali apicali albo margi- 

 nata ; posticce f us coe, linea discali fusca. 



Ferruginous. Head and palpi with a purplish tinge. Abdo- 

 men cinereous-brown. Fore wings with a purplish tinge, near ihe 

 base with two testaceous bands, which are interlined with fawn- 

 colour ; reniform spot testaceous, marked with brown and almost 

 divided in the middle; two exterior brown denticulated lines, ihe^ 

 outer one bordered with testaceous ; sub marginal line brown, irr'-*^^ 



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