EUPHYIA. By L. B. Prout. 
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inclines to the aggregata form) to that of typical vacuaria Guen. (26 a). — The larva feeds on Plantago and 
probably other low plants; sooty black but variable; commonly with a broad brownish lateral stripe; it pupates 
in the earth. 
E. heteroleuca Meyr. (28 f $). 23 -31 mm. Palpus 2%. Ciliation of $ antenna y 3 . The hindwing, heteroleuca. 
which has the termen rounded and waved, seems tolerably constant in its colour and markings, as is also the 
forewing beneath, which has a dark border, broadened in the anterior half; but the white element in the me¬ 
dian area of the forewing above (by the presence of which element Meyrick separates the species from mecy- 
nata, doliopis and languescens) varies greatly. In the d type, from Mt. Kosciusko, it forms only a very small 
cell-spot; in his allotype $, from Warragul, Victoria, it forms a large spot around the black cell-dot and 2 ad¬ 
ditional small ones posteriorly. — ab. leucoplea nov. (29 b), a second Warragul $ noted by Meyrick. has a leucoplea. 
broad white band occupying all but the borders of the area. 
E. aglaodes Meyr. (28 f). Palpus 1*4 or scarcely; d ciliation 4 / 5 . The median band, which is less broad aglaodes. 
than in heteroleuca and contains no white, is bounded distally by two partly confluent whitish, posteriorly more 
greyish lines. Mount Kosciusko (type) and Mount St. Bernard, 5060 feet. Our figured specimen, from the 
latter locality, is smaller and less bright than the type. 
E. synchora Meyr. (28 g), founded on a ^ from Hobart, is rather large, with palpus 2 y z . Apart from sync-horn. 
its larger size and paler coloration, it may be readily distinguished from excentrata by the deep indentation of 
the postmedian in front of the central prominence. 
E. excentrata Guen. (= constipata Walk., bifusata Walk.) (28 g $). Palpus nearly 2; ciliation of 3 excentrata. 
antenna minute. Rather glossy, the general range of colouring much as in the New Zealand deltoidata, the fore¬ 
wing much less produced anteriorly. Both wings beneath with broad subterminal or terminal dark band, that 
of the hindwing leaving the apex quite clear. Very variable; two extremes from Gisborne, both §, have been 
diagnosed by Turner. — ab. fuscifascia nom. nov. “Median band wholly suffused with dark fuscous." — ab. fuscifascia. 
albiplaga nom. nov. Dorsal [posterior] two-thirds of median band clear white except discal dot and a slight albi-plaga. 
suffusion near external edge." Tasmania ( Guenee's and Walker's type) to Killarney, Queensland. 
E. adornata Guen. (= lamprotis Meyr.) (28 f). The source of Guenee’s type is unknown, but the adornata. 
synonymy was established by Thierry-Mieg, who first recorded it from Tasmania, a likely locality for Guenee’s. 
A small (20—21 mm), brightly coloured species, with the hindwing margin markedly crenulate, the forewing 
more or less marked with white, the central projection of the median band strong, forming approximately an 
equilateral triangle. New South Wales to South Australia and Tasmania. 
E. hilaodes Turn. Only $$ known, similar to adornata but much larger (30 to 34 mm), palpus shorter hilaodes. 
( 214 ), head irrorated with crimson, antemedian line indented near costa and behind middle, projection of post- 
median less strong, bidentate, hindwing not orange but whitish, suffused more or less with pale ochreous. 
Tasmania. 
E. cataphaea Meyr. (28 f). Hindwing more elongate than in the similarly coloured Euphyia, generally cataphaea. 
a good deal dulled with fuscous. Palpus rather long, with relatively elongate terminal joint. Antennal ciliation 
of d vestigial. Both wings beneath usually much paler and yellower, outside the postmedian often almost un¬ 
marked. Mount Kosciusko, 5700—6000 feet. 
E. symphona Meyr. (= maerens Swinli.) (28 g). Glossy and with the hindwing somewhat elongate symphona. 
costally, beginning to approach the shape of an Ortholitha , the shape of the $ more extreme. Palpus scarcely 
2 in the 4, longer in the $. Forewing grey-brownish, hindwing paler, almost or entirely unmarked. Underside 
almost unicolorous, without markings. Mount Kosciusko. - symmolpa Turn, was described on 2 from the symmolpa. 
same locality and differentiated by the form of the postmedian line, which is more strongly angled in the middle, 
posteriorly more concave, the “discal spot not pale centred”, perhaps the more strongly marked distal area and 
other details; but was afterwards sunk; I think “palpus 3”, even for the $, must have been an over-estimate. 
Presumably a mere aberration; the species is in any case variable. 
E. leptophrica Turn. (28 f). Much shorter- and broader-winged, the areas of the forewing not sharply leptophrica. 
defined, central projection of postmedian slight, hinclwing sometimes better marked than in symphona, both 
wings beneath with a dark band (even if incomplete) proximal to the subterminal line. New South Wales: 
Barrington Top, Mount Kosciusko. 
E. anthracinata Guen. (= atriplena Walk.) (28 g). Falcate-winged in the di strikingly black above, anthracinata 
dusky though not black beneath. Until the discovery of the following, no Euphyia at all like it was known. 
Victoria and Tasmania. 
