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EUPHYIA. By L. B. Prout. 
cnephaeopa. 
rfagiocausta. 
cryeropa. 
eupMleta. 
erarota. 
trygodes. 
insulsata. 
correlata. 
ebvleata. 
fervidaia. 
Common and widely distributed in Australia, excepting the more tropical parts; the type of perfectata came 
Sydney, the other 3 types from Tasmania, but I am not aware of any geographical variation. 
E. cnephaeopa Turn. (28 a). Forewing broader, though still with the termen strongly oblique; hindwing 
elongate anteriorly. Much more weakly marked both above and beneath and wholly dark. Mount Kosciusko. 
E. plagiocausta Turn. (28 b). Distinguishable by the conspicuous blackish streak which 
runs from the hindmargin of the forewing very obliquely outwards and terminates abruptly op¬ 
posite midcosta, with which it is connected merely by a fine line. Hindwing with termen crenulate. Near Hobart, 
Tasmania (type) and Adelaide. 
E. cryeropa Meyr. (28 b). Palpus 1%. Antennal ciliation of %. Forewing rather light fuscous, more 
or less densely irrorated with white; basal patch consisting of faint lines; proximal edge of median band curved 
and twice indented, distal edge with its central projection triangular; subterminal line faint; an oblique whitish 
subapical streak, underlined with fuscous. Hindwing weakly marked. (Abridged from Meyrick, whose originals, 
2 from Hay, N. S. W., appear to be lost). The form from Adelaide, here figured, is rather pale. The other 
recorded localities are in Victoria: Birehip, Sea Lake and? Melbourne (Lower). 
E. euphileta Turn. (28 b). Palpus l 1 /^. Ciliations of <$ y 4 . Median band uniformly fuscous (in the $ 
edged with white lines), proximal edge slightly dentate, distal with the projection obtuse; subterminal indicated. 
Hindwing with lines and dark irroration proximally to the postmedian line; 2 subterminal lines indicated, at 
least towards hindmargin. Forewing beneath darkened from base to postmedian. Lome, Victoria. 
E. crocota Turn. (28 c) is said to be nearest to trygodes but differing in its brighter and more distinctive 
colouring. Palpus, as in that, 2 1 / t . Antenna in the $ with the dentations 1. Forewing bright ochreous mixed 
with purple-reddish; a purple-fuscous basal patch, suffused in the centre with the ground-colour; median band 
purple-fuscous, traversed by faint wavy reddish-purple lines, proximal edge curved, distal slightly waved anter¬ 
iorly, sinuate towards hindmargin; a purple-reddish distal suffusion. Hindwing pale purple-grey, distally suf¬ 
fused with whitish-ochreous. Near Melbourne; probably also at Kelso and possibly Mt. Wellington, Tasmania. 
We figure a Kelso which only deviates from the description in the (slightly) bidentate antemedian and bis- 
inuate postmedian and in the purplish distal suffusion of the hindwing; the latter was noticed by Turner in 
his Wellington §, which is whitish rather than ochreous, and he suspects that the species “varies considerably”. 
E. trygodes Meyr. (28 c). <$ antenna triangularly dentate, ciliation %. Forewing with termen waved; 
brown, mixed with dull rust-reddish and slightly sprinkled with whitish; numerous faint waved lines; margins 
of median band indicated by minute white dots, the postmedian from 4 / 5 costa to % hindmargin, sinuate before 
and behind the middle, central projection slight; cell-dot blackish; subterminal line merely indicated. Hind¬ 
wing with termen waved, unevenly rounded. Tasmania: George's Bay (loc. typ.); Victoria: Melbourne and 
Gisborne; New South Wales: Ebor. 
E. insulsata Guen. (28 c). This and the two following species form an interesting and somewhat puzzling 
group which, notwithstanding the differences in the coloration of the fringes and the strength of the projection 
of the postmedian line, may perhaps be (as Turner was at one time inclined to think) modifications of a single 
entity. Meyrick measures the palpus as 2% in insulsata , 2% in correlata and 2*4 in ebuleata and this may be 
accurate, but the differences are too slight to gauge precisely in cabinet specimens. All have the underside 
strongly marked, with characteristic dark subterminal shading, that of the hindwing consisting of a large anterior 
and a smaller posterior blotch, commonly more or less connected by narrower or weaker suffusion. In insulsata 
the hindwing above is almost uniform clear ochreous with extremely narrow dark terminal shading, the forewing 
with smoky irroration, the lines extremely weak, the postmedian projection not acute. Fringes nowhere clear 
white, mostly of the ground-colour or greyer, its forewing with a pale, yellowtinged line beyond their middle, 
those of the hindwing showing this whitish yellow on the distal half. “Australia'’ (the type) and “Adelaide’’ 
(a worn §); most of the material which I have seen comes from South Australia. 
E. correlata Walk. (28 c). More strongly (generally much more strongly) marked, the postmedian with 
strong central prominence; forewing generally of a clear ochreous-yellow. Fringes predominantly dark, on the 
forewing proximally approaching blackish. Perhaps commonest in Victoria (Melbourne district, etc.) but recorded 
also from New South Wales and Tasmania. “New Zealand”, given by Walker, is obviously erroneous. 
E. ebuleata Guen. (= spoliata Walk.) (28 c). On an average somewhat smaller than the two preceding, 
often a little (or considerably) paler; but chiefly distinguished by the w bite distal half of the fringes. The 
weakly marked forms, which are typical for both the cited names, otherwise very similar to insulsata. — ab. 
fervidata Walk. (Guenee's “var. A”) is more strongly banded and as the postmedian inclines towards the shape 
of that of correlata there is sometimes little except the fringe to distinguish the two; but generally, so far as 
