ADEIXIS; DICHROMODES. By L. B. Prout. 
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S. acutata Btlr. (la) is at once distinguished from falcatella by having the outer streak acutely angu- acu/alu. 
lated inwards on the fold; first streak short, cell-dot small, not elongate. South Island, N. Z. Besides But¬ 
ler’s type, I known only a single example, from Queenstown. 
7. Genus: Adeixis Wan. 
Face sloping, with a small cone of scales. Palpus moderately long. Antenna of £ bipectinate, the 
branches of the inner series very short. Hindtibia of £ with a small hair-pencil. Wings rather elongate glossy. 
Forewing with apex not falcate, distal margin anteriorly straight and not very oblique, 1st subcostal vein free, 
2nd anastomosing with 3rd—4th. Small and inconspicuous, $ smaller than 
A. inostentata Walk. ( = insignata Warr.) (1 a). Very variable in colour, from whitish grey, with the inostentata. 
hindwing white, to dark mouse-colour, with the hindwing more or less darkened. When netted, this species 
feigns death, folding the wings close round the body rather like a Noctuid. Common and widely distributed in 
Australia, reaching Melville Island. — griseata Huds., the New Zealand form, is generally strongly marked, griseata. 
showing the curved oblique line or shade almost complete, distally edged with whitish. 
8. Genus: DicliFOissodes Gum. 
An extensive genus of pretty uniform structure, differing from Adeixis in the unipectinate $ antenna. 
Forewing in general with the distal margin longer, anteriorly more oblique. Three species — steropias , ptilo- 
macra and nexistriga — have longer palpi and narrower wings, with tufts of raised scales. Hindtibia of £ 
generally simple, but in the molybdaria group greatly swollen, the tarsus shortened. Australia and New Zealand. 
D. ainaria Gum. (— divergentaria Guen., metaxanthata Walk., subflava Bastelb.) (1 a) differs from nearly ainaria. 
the other species in the clear orange, sharply dark-bordered hindwing; from diasemaria- and scothima in that 
they have the base of palpus white beneath. $ ( divergentaria — ainaria) is more sharply marked than the $. 
Common in the end of October and in November, South Australia and Tasmania to New South Wales. 
D. scothima Prout (1 a) described from a single specimem from Albany, West Australia, may possibly scothima. 
prove to be a form of the following. Characterized by having the forewing almost uniformly darkened from 
base to beyond middle. 
D. diasemaria Guen. Generally much duller than ainaria , the postmedian line of the forewing not diasemaria. 
noticeably bent inwards behind cell, the hindwing with more or less strong smoky suffusion. Decidedly variable. 
Tasmania, dying in December and January. — uniformis Bastelb. (2 a) is a form from Katoomba with nearly uniformis. 
unicolorous dirty-grey forewing. I have seen it also from Mount St. Bernard, Victoria. 
D. exsigrtata Walk, is perhaps an extreme melanic form of the preceding species. The underside is almost exsignata. 
identical but both wings above are blackish throughout; the central band of the forewing is just perceptible, 
and appears unusually broad. Sydney, only AValker’s type known to me. 
D. anelictis Meyr. (1 b) is distinguished by the acute outward projections of the principal lines, in parti-[«ne?iciis. 
cular by the sharp tooth of the postmedian behind the 3rd radial vein; the central band is generally intersected 
by a white line along the fold. The hindwing, in this and nearly all subsequent species of the genus, shows 
little that is distinctive. October to December, common in West Australia, also occurring in the South. — 
deprivata Prout, described from a single $, is an aberration, or perhaps a related species, of a pale grey colour deprivata. 
with the markings mostly suppressed; central band indistinct excepting a narrow oblique patch in its anterior 
part; costal spot beyond developed, also a double ferruginous spot beyond the tooth of the central band. Sea 
Lake, Victoria. 
D. odontias Meyr. Head whitish ochreous, face brownish ochreous. Antennal pectinations longer than odoniias. 
in the preceding species. The wings lack the ochreous tinge; the lines which bound the central area are ir¬ 
regularly dentate and double, the subterminal line is accompanied proximally by irregular dark cloudings; ter¬ 
minal dots well developed, triangular. Victoria, in December, apparently not common. 
D. disputata Walk. (= dentigeraria Walk.) (1 b). Distinguished by the dark head and thorax, purple- disputata. 
reddish suffusions on the forewing and the numerous whitish, but not very sharply expressed, waved transverse 
lines, which show a more or less strong tendency to become broken up into dots. Rather common, Victoria to 
Queensland, apparently decreasing in size towards its northern limit. 
