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CATALOGUE OF 



Callimorpha Australasia, Boisd. Voy. de I Astrolabe, Pt. 1. Left 



New Holland. 



22. Hypercompa concolor. 



Alas quatuor concolores aurantiaco-fulvce margine latissimo niqro 

 micante. * 



Callimorpha concolor, Boisd. Voy. de l y Astrolabe, Pt. 1. Lev* 

 208, 4. 



New Holland. 



Genus 25. AREAS. 

 Mas et fcem. Corpus crassum, cylindricum. Proboscis capi- 

 tis latitudme longior. Palpi mediocriter longi, porrecli; articulus 

 2us lo brcvior ; 3us parvus, 2i dimidio paullo brevior Antenna 

 simphces. Thorax pilis adpressis. Abdomen alas posticas non 

 superans. Tibias posticae calcaribus quatuor sat longis. Ala3 lomrse 

 mediocriter latae. & ? 



Male and fern. Body thick, cylindrical. Proboscis longer 

 than the breadth of the head. Palpi moderately long, porrect; first 

 joint longer than the second; third small, conical, nearly half the 

 length of the second. Thorax with short and smooth-lying hairsj 

 Abdomen extending as far as the hind wings. Legs stout ; hind 

 tibiae with four moderately long spurs. Wings long, moderately 

 broad ; second inferior vein close to the first at the base ; third full 

 eight times nearer to the second than to the fourth. 



1. Areas orientalis. 

 Mas. et fcem. Alba; palpi rufi ex parte nigri; antenna* nigra* ;] 

 thorax nigro-viridi univittatus et quadrimaculatus ; abdomen* 

 rufum macuhs dorsalibus nigro-viridibus, subtus luteum ma- 

 cuhs laterahbus nigro-viridibus ; alee anticce vittis duabus albo 

 guttatis fuscis, la angulosa et furcata ; 2a postica ; posticce 

 testaceo-flava, maculis tribus fuscis. 



Male and fern White. Head red behind, and about the base 

 ot the antennae Proboscis tawny. Palpi red, partly black. An- i 

 tennae black. Prothorax with two blackish green spots, partly red 

 behind and between the spots. Thorax with a blackish green stripe 

 and on each side w ith a blackish green dot. Abdomen bright red' 

 with a row of dorsal blackish green spots ; under side luteous, with 

 blackish green spots along each side. Legs black ; femora streaked 

 with yellow or red. Fore wings with a brown angular forked brown 



