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XANTHORHOE. By L. B. Prout. 
metoporina. 
vicissata. 
heliacaria. 
pyrrhoba- 
phes. 
amblychroa. 
agelasta. 
rhodacris . 
h yperythra. 
cast emeu. 
oligepeles. 
X. metoporina Turn. Founded on 2 $4 collected on Mount Kosciusko, 2 March 1912. 32 mm. Palpus 
2 1 / l . Forewing broadly triangular, termen straight, oblique, crenulate; brown-whitish; markings fuscous; 
median band moderately broad, proximal edge excurved, ill-defined, distal edge with a large acutely-angled 
central projection; finely waved lines precede and follow the band. Hindwing with termen gently rounded, 
crenulate; pale grey, with indications of fine lines towards hindmargin. (Abridged from Turner.) 
X. vicissata Guen. (25 e). Pectinations shortish-moderate. Recognizable at once by the yellow hind¬ 
wing, brown-bordered but otherwise devoid of markings, and the straight postmedian of the forewing. New 
South Wales to Tasmania. The larva when newly hatched, is slender, glaucous green. Later (when 3 / 8 inch 
long) stumpy, the segmentation distinct; fuscous, with black dorsal line, cinereous subdorsal (double) and 
lateral lines, the latter black-edged above; it hibernates and grows very slowly. 
X. heliacaria Guen. (25 e). Generally smaller; forewing with more white in the median band, the post- 
median strongly angled; hindwing with more markings than in vicissata. Described from Tasmania, extending 
to Victoria and on Mount Kosciusko. 
X. pyrrhobaphes Turn. 4, 34 mm. Palpus 2 y 2 . Pectinations 10. Forewing broad, apex subrectangular, 
termen slightly oblique; very pale reddish (in an aberration grey, with the reddish suffusion almost confined 
to basal patch), costal edge rather deeper red; median band moderately broad anteriorly, much narrower post¬ 
eriorly, its edges formed respectively of 2 and 3 dark lines wit h their interspaces in part red, the antemedians 
slightly excurved, the postmedians angled before middle; cell-dot blackish; a crenulate subterminal shade; 
paired terminal dots. Hindwing rounded; grey-whitish, with fine dark lines from costa; terminal dots as on 
forewing. Underside pale reddish, with cell-dots and interrupted postmedian line. Moina, Tasmania, in January. 
The differently shaped wings obviates any possible confusion with Acodia pauper. (Abridged from Turner.) 
X. amblychroa Turn. Smaller (26—28 mm). Pectinations shorter (6), with apical y 3 simple. Forewing 
elongate, with pointed apex and oblique, nearly straight termen; brown-whitish, with fuscous irroration and 
markings; costa with numerous short strigulae; 3 suffused subbasal lines; a slightly dentate antemedian at 2 / 5 ; 
postmedian at %, wavy, better defined, white-edged distally, central projection obtuse; cell-dot obscure, with 
a small brownish mark behind it; terminal line blackish, interrupted; fringe mixed with brownish-fuscous. 
Hindwing with termen rounded, wavy; whitish-grey, with cell-dot and obscurely dark postmedian and sub- 
terminal lines. Underside similar, markings of hindwing better defined. Hobart, in December, 2 44 . (Turner.) 
X. agelasta Turn. 24 mm. Palpus 2 1 /,. Pectinations 6. Forewing with termen almost straight, 
markedly oblique; ochreous whitish with fuscous lines and irroration; subbasal line excurved; median band 
darker, except in centre, which contains the cell-dot; band obscurely edged with ochreous-whitish, the proximal 
edge from y 3 costa to 2 / 5 hindmargin, curved, the distal at %, with short obtuse projection, an indentation 
before the projection, a sinus behind; pale subterminal line slender; terminal line interrupted. Hindwing with 
termen slightly rounded; ochreous whitish, with dark cell-clot and nearly complete postmedian line (not quite 
reaching costa); subterminal set in a slight dusky suffusion. Both wings beneath nearly as hindwing above. 
Sale, Victoria, the type. 2 from Launceston have the postmedian line much less developed, the underside 
suffused with fuscous. (Turner.) 
X. (?) rhodacris Lower. $ unknown. $ with palpus moderate (about 2). According to Turner “dist¬ 
inguishable by the reddish-ferruginous forewing, with apical patch of same colour on underside, and the very 
distinct subterminal line on both wings”. Expanse 22 mm. Lower considers it evidently related to hyperythra. 
Penola, S. Australia, 1 $, in November. 
X. hyperythra Lower (25 d). Pectinations of the long, the outer series, according to Lower, 8 times 
the diameter of the shaft. Palpus almost 2. Wings somewhat elongate. Forewing fuscous, with the lines ochreous- 
whitish to golden-ochreous; antemedian oblique inward anteriorly; postmedian with the anterior and central 
projections not large; apical dash visible. Hindwing paler, glossy, very weakly marked. Underside with strong 
reddish suffusion, the h i n d wing the more marked. Adelaide (type) and Victoria. Said to be variable. 
X. castanea Warr. (Suppl.-Vol. 4, pi. 12b). Probably Palaearctic in origin, looking like a somewhat 
narrower-winged outlier of the munitata (Him.) group or perhaps a pectinate relative of designata Hufn. (Vol. 4, 
pi. 9 e). Smaller than Euphyia subangulata (Vol. 4, pi. 12 b), which it somewhat resembles in colouring; distal 
area and hindwing (at least in the $) darker, underside without bright brown subterminal shade. Kashmir. 
X. oligepeles sp. n. (25 e). Somewhat recalls Colostygia austriacaria H.-Sch. (Vol. 4, pi. 9 b), though not 
quite so long-winged nor so extremely glossy, the markings a little stronger. Head and palpus nearly concolorous 
with thorax; palpus nearly 2. Pectinations rather long, suberect, widely spaced, numbering about 25 in each 
series. Band with projections very weak, markings on either side of it punctiform; a few of the subterminal 
