616 CATALOGUE OF 



Australia. 



The single Australian species is allied to the European Arctia, 

 and has most resemblance to A. maculosa and A. Casta, 



42. Arctia fuscinula. 



Cervina ; palpi antennceque nigra ; thorax nigra trivittatus ; pedes 

 fusci, coxis femoribusque rufis ; abdomen rufum, vittis tribus 

 macularibus nigris ; alee anticce vitta una fasciisque duabus 

 macularibus Jlavo-albis ; posticce pallide rufce, macula discali 

 fasciaque marginali nigro-fuscis. 



Fawn colour. Palpi and antennas black. Thorax with three 

 black stripes. Abdomen red, with three stripes of black spots, the 

 middle row T forming short bands. Legs brown ; coxae and femora 

 mostly red. Fore wings blackish brown, with a yellowish white 

 stripe, which proceeds obliquely from the base to three- fourths of 

 the length of the costa, and is more or less interrupted, and with 

 two oblique interrupted more or less macular yellowish white bands, 

 one beyond the middle, the other marginal. Hind wings pale red, 

 with a blackish brown discal spot and a broad blackish brown mar- 

 ginal band. Length of the body 6 — 7 lines ; of the wings 14 — 16 

 lines. 



a, b. Sydney. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



c. New Holland. Presented by J. Hunter, Esq. 



d. New Holland. Presented by Major-General Hardwicke. 



Genus 5. PERICALLJA. 



Corpus robustum, lineare, cylindricum. Proboscis brevis. 

 Palpi breves, validi, porrecti, pilosi; articulus 2us lo multo iongior, 

 3us minimus. Antennae corporis dimidio non longiores. Abdomen 

 longum, alas posticas paullo superans. Alae longiusculae. Pedes 

 validi; femora hirta ; femora tibia? que antica aequalia ; tibee pos- 

 ticae calcaribus quatuor parvis. Mas. — Antennae subserratae, sub- 

 setosag. Abdominis forceps analis robusta. 



Phalaena Bombyx, p., Linn. ; Esp. ; Gmel.; Scop. 

 Bombyx, p., Fabr. ; Illig. ; Borkh. ; Hubn. 

 Arctia, p., Schr. ; Steph. 

 Pericallia, Hubn. Verz. Sckmett. 182. 

 Eyprepia, p., Ochs. ; Meig. 



Body stout, linear, cylindrical. Proboscis short. Palpi short, 

 stout, porrect, hairy ; second joint much longer than the first; third 



