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ACALYPHES; ARCTESTHES. By L. B. Prout. 
bertha . 
pericalles . 
philorites. 
sir is. 
catapyrrha. 
fasciata. 
kaikour cri¬ 
sis. 
chrysopeda. 
D. bertha Swinh. (= crypsiphoena Turn.) (24 g). Considerably more variegated, in some specimens 
with some reddish scales intermixed in the dark markings. Described from a single $, from Mount Wellington, 
Tasmania, which has the areole single, hence no comment was made an the venational inconstancy; of 9 <$<$ 
which Turner examined later, 5 have the areole simple on both forewings, 2 double on both and 2 asym¬ 
metrical; of 10 $$, 9 have it simple on both wings while 1 is asymmetrical. All come from Tasmania. 
D. pericalles Turn. Expanse 23—27 mm. Antenna of $ thickened and slightly laminate, the ciliation 
minute. Forewing fuscous, with brownish and whitish irroration in part; bands darker, the subbasal excurved 
the ante- and post-median (forming the boundaries of the pale-centred median area), the former excurved and 
with its proximal edge twice indented and whitish, the latter with a small tooth outward before the middle 
and a large bidentate prominence in the outer area very weakly marked. Hindwing orange, in the $ with 
3 fine dark lines (which are strongly angled in the middle) and a dark terminal band, in the $ with only 
the band and this much narrower. Underside ochreous, the G forewing with a postmedian fascia which ex¬ 
pands strongly behind, joining a terminal fascia, hindwing with a postmedian line and terminal fascia, these 
markings more rudimentary in the Cradle Mountain, Tasmania, only one pair known. 
4. Genus: Acalyphes Turn. 
A curious development of Dasyuris and Dasysternica , differing in the venation: Forewing with areole 
open, the 1st. subcostal failing to touch the stalk of the succeeding ones; hindwing with cell very long (%), 
2nd. subcostal not or only very shortly stalked. Erected for a single Tasmanian species. 
A. philorites Turn. Expanse 22 — 24 mm. Palpus twice diameter of eye. Antenna of q simple. Fore¬ 
wing with termen scarcely oblique; fuscous, in the disc with some whitish irroration; an ill-defined whitish 
subbasal spot; lines dark fuscous, the antemedian somewhat dentate, suffusedly margined with white, the 
median angled outward in the middle, sometimes indistinct, the postmedian irregularly dentate, with a strong 
median tooth outward, edged distally by a broad white line; suffused dark subterminal spots at the radials 
and near tornus. Hindwing strongly rounded; fuscous, disc in ^ suffused with whitish-ochreous; a strong 
white or whitish postmedian line, strongly angled in the middle and again at tornus. Also founded on one pair 
from Cradle Mountain. 
5. Gemis: Arctestlies Meyr. 
This genus has been sunk to the Palaearctic Lythria Hbn. (see Yol. 4, p. 155) but should, I think, be 
resuscitated, the connection being by no means so close as has been assumed. It consists of a few species 
which resemble Notoreas in all characters except the areole, which is here always simple. Pectinations much 
shorter than in Lythria. Scaling normal (in Lythria predominantly long, hair like). Fringes long (in Lythria 
shortish-moderate). Venation more normally Larentiid than in that genus: areole ample, with 1st. subcostal 
well before its end, 1st. median of both wings arising near 3rd. radial, 1st. discocellular of forewing undeve¬ 
loped (1st. radial connate, or almost connate, with subcostal stalk), cell of hindwing decidedly less than half 
the wing-length. Structure of the genitalia entirely different: sacc-us normal; uncus well developed; no pro¬ 
jections anally of the tegumental ring; valves more normally shaped, “anellus lobes" (?) developed. Endemic 
in New Zealand. Genotype: capapyrrha Butl. 
A. siris Huds. (24 h). Small, brightly coloured, median band of forewing grey, extremely ang¬ 
led distally, hindwing orange, with the base and a broad distal border grey, the postmedian line acutely 
angled. Old Man Range, Central Otago, at about 4000 feet. 
A. catapyrrha Butl. (= euclidiata Huds., nec Guen.) (24 f). Still smaller, the wings relatively more 
elongate. It bears a good deal of superficial resemblance, both on the upper- and on the gay and variegated 
underside, to the Australian Dasyuris euclidiata Guen. and was formerly confused with it, but, apart from 
the structural distinctions, it differs in lacking the antemedian band of the underside of the forewing and 
in the red or reddish colouring especially on the costal and distal borders of that of the hindwing. Widely 
distributed in open country and often plentiful. — ab. fasciata nov. has the median area of the forewing entirely 
blackened; according to Philpott it only occurs in mountain localities. kaikourensis subsp. nov. According 
to Hudson (1928) “a local variety occurs in the Kaikoura Mountains, having the upperside of the hindwing 
bright orange’'. 
A. chrysopeda Meyr. (24 h), restricted, so far as is known, to Mount Arthur at altitudes of 3000 to 4000 
feet and the Tararua Mountains, is on the whole less small, has the antennal pectinations shorter and is ab¬ 
undantly distinct in the orange bands (or, correctly speaking, ground-colour) of the forewing, differently 
shaped postmedian and other details. A curious venational irregularity occurs in a specimen in my collection: 
