CYNEOTERPNA; SPHAGNODELA; CRYPSIPHONA. By L. B. Proitt. 
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costa and terminates before the 2nd median vein. Widely distributed in Australia. Turner gives Queensland 
to Victoria, also Albany, W. A. The larva feeds on Eucalyptus piperita Sm. and resembles a folded leaf; it 
tapers equally at both extremities, which look very much alike, both the head and anal segment being elongate, 
wedge-shaped, chitinized, the head furrowed down the middle, above and beneath, the anal end bifurcate. 
Body sage-green, with small black spots, narrow yellow lateral and ventral stripes and small red spots below 
the spiracles. The pupa is attached by its tail and a central girth, as in Cosymbia or many butterflies. 
18. Genus: Cyneoterpiia Prout. 
Probably related to Hypobapta, but with the face tufted and differing from all the related genera in 
having a dense hood projecting over the face. Forewing with the 1st subcostal anastomosing with both the 
neighbouring veins, the 1st discocellular long, as also the 4th. Only one species known. 
C. vvilsoni Feld. (8 i). Forewing white, mixed with grey, the lines exceedingly dentate, the post- wilsoni. 
median blackest on the outward teeth. Hindwing white in proximal half, then grey. Underside similar to 
that of H. percomptaria, the cell-marks less angular, the submarginal bands broader. Felder’s type was from 
South Australia, but the range extends from North Queensland to Tasmania. 
19. Genus: Sphagiiotfela Warr. 
Although this genus offers but few salient characters, it differs rather widely in shape and facies from 
all the others. Build not very robust. Wings elongate, the distal margin of the forewing relatively short, the 
costal margin of the hindwing long, with apex rather pronounced. Forewing with 1st subcostal vein anastomosing 
with costal. Hindwing with costal approximated to subcostal at least to the middle of the cell. Both wings 
with 1st median remote at origin from 3rd radial. Abdominal crests moderate. Antenna of G with rather short, 
clavate pectinations to near apex. The only species is Indian. 
S. lucida Warr. (8 i). Recognizable by its moss-green, thickly irrorated forewing, with black spots lucida. 
proximally to the white subterminal dots, and its almost unmarked hindwing and underside. Sikkim and the 
adjacent part of Tibet. 
20. Genus: Cry]! si ph on si Meyr. 
Distinguished from all the other Indo-Australian genera of its group by having only one pair of spurs on 
the hindtibia. Face smoothly scaled. Pectus and femora densely hairy. Palpus moderate. Abdominal crests 
wanting. Antenna in the $ pectinate. Hindwing with abdominal margin long. 
Contains a few Australian species, which differ a little in some details of structure. Only ocultaria 
is common and well-known. 
C. ocultaria Don. (8 i). The cryptic grey upperside recalls a Pingasa, but the underside is unique, ocultaria. 
the bright red proximal part of the terminal band of the hindwing being particularly striking against the pure 
white ground-colour. Normally, this red band is almost as broad as the blackish one outside it, but I have seen 
aberrations in which it is reduced to a thread and according to Meyrick, it can be absent. The larva feeds on 
Eucalyptus and is said to be similar to that of Hypobapta percomptaria , with acuminate head and tail. Distributed 
throughout Australia except the tropical region. 
C. melanosema Meyr. is unknown to me. Generally smaller than ocultaria, the face not (as in that melanose- 
species) black, the forewing less broad, with a short black basal mark, the lines black, tolerably strong, the 
antemedian unevenly curved outward, the postmedian dentate, sinuate inward behind middle; cell-mark black, 
linear, very oblique, its hinder end terminating in an ill-defined whitish spot, which interrupts the postmedian 
line; subterminal line strongly dentate, accompanied by dark shades. Hindwing with distal margin crenate; 
grey-whitish, rather weakly marked. Forewing beneath grey, outside the cell and at hindmargin paler, apex 
white; discal mark oblique. Hindwing beneath whitish, with an oval blackish postmedian blotch, which does 
not reach the margins. Founded on 5 specimens which were taken on fences at Albany, W. A. 
C. amaura Meyr. Scarcely larger than melanosema. Face with an indistinct dark transverse bar. amaura. 
Thorax (as also in melanosema but not in ocultaria) with a slight anterior crest. Forewing very pale whitish- 
ochreous, with a slight reddish tinge; without the black markings of melanosema-, the oblique cell-mark indistinct, 
