LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 617 



a. Tasmania. Presented by the Rev. A. Beaufort. 

 b y c. Tasmania. Presented by Morton Allport, Esq. 

 d, e. Adelaide. Presented by the Entomological Club. 

 /. New Zealand. Presented by the Rev. W. Colenso. 

 g — i. New Zealand. Presented by Dr. Sinclair. 

 J t k. New Zealand. Presented by Col. Bolton. 

 /. New Zealand. From Mr. C burton's collection. 

 m, Tasmania. From Mr. A. J. Smith's collection. 

 n. ? From the voyage of H.M.S. Herald. 



Genus 5. LITHOMIA. 



Corpus rob us turn. Proboscis longiuscula. Palpi breves, gra- 

 ciles, caput vix superantes ; articulus 3us 2i triente aequalis. An- 

 tennae graeiles, corporis dimidio longiores. Abdomen alas posticas 

 triente superans, non cristatum. Pedes validi ; tibiae posticae cal- 

 caribus longis. Aiae anticae longiusculae, sat angustae, apice rotun- 

 datae, margine exteriore perobliquo vix angulato. Mas. — Antennae 

 subeiliatae. 



Li thorn ia, Cart. Brit. Ent. 

 Lithomoia, p., Hiibn. Verz, Schmett. 244. 

 Xylina, p., Treit.; Meig. : Herr.-Schceff. 

 Cloantha, p., Boisd. ; Guen. 



Body stout. Proboscis rather long 1 . Palpi short, slender, 

 hardly extending beyond the head ; third joint cylindrical, about 

 one-third of the length of the second. Antennae slender, more than 

 half the length of the body. Abdomen extending for one-third of 

 its length beyond the hind wings, not crested. Legs stout ; hind 

 tibiae with four long spurs. Fore wings rather long and narrow, 

 straight in front, rounded at the tips, very slightly angular and very 

 oblique along the exterior border. Male. — Antennae very minutely 

 ciliated. 



1. Litho mia Solid aginis. 



Cinereo- canes cens ; thorax nigro-fusco fasciatus ; abdomen cine- 

 rascens ; alee anticce canescentes, costa fasciisque diffusis fus- 

 cescentibus, venis strigisque lanceolatis exterioribus nigris, 

 linea submarginali valde angulosa, orbiculari et reniformi al- 

 bido marginatis, hac magna disco albo, ilia parva subrotunda ; 

 posticce cinerascentes, ciliis albis. 



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