EUPHYIA. By L. B. Prout. 
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E. psarodes Turn. 27 mm. Palpus 2%. Antenna of 4 dentate, the teeth 1, ciliations 1. Forewing with psarodes. 
costa nearly straight, termen rounded, oblique; white mixed with pale greyish; markings apparently much as 
in rhynchota, but with the antemedian nearly straight, followed (distally) by dark fuscous spots at costa and 
hindmargin and before middle of disc, the hindwing above grey instead of “whitish-ochrous” and apparently 
not darkened close to the termen. Beneath, the hindwing is mixed with whitish, on the veins whitish-ochreous, 
with a dark cell-dot, fine dentate postmedian line and a series of submarginal spots. Only known from Tasmania. 
H. actinipha Lower , from Broken Hill, South Australia, is unknown to me, but is readily distinguishable adinipha. 
from 'psarodes, according to Turner, by the strongly concave proximal margin of the median band; this band 
is broad, predominantly fuscous, traversed by white lines, with an acute distal projection as in the neighbouring 
species. Hindwing pale grey, with a whitish subterminal line. Expanse 24—26 mm. Lower considers it nearest 
to cryeropa. 2 
E. rhynchota Meyr. (28 h). Palpus not quite 2. Antenna of <$ with small teeth below, which bear short rhynchota. 
ciliation. Hindwing nearly Ortholitha- shaped, very feebly marked. Forewing with an acute central projection 
of the median band, somewhat as in the small and differently coloured interruptata and epicteta; for the differ¬ 
entiation of psarodes , see above. Mount Kosciusko (loc. typ.) and Castlemaine, Victoria. 
E. interruptata Guen. (= oxyclasta Meyr., M. S., fuscescens Warr., M. S.) (28 i). Sharply marked, interruptata. 
somewhat recalling the design of an Ecliptopera, the lines which bound the areas of the forewing, as well as an 
oblique stripe from the apex, broadly white, the lines angular, the angle of the antemedian usually (but not 
invariably) so prolonged as to bisect the black-brown median band. The originals (“Australia”) belong to the 
form which I have seen only from Tasmania. ochreipicta Th.-Mieg. “Differs from the type in that the black- ochreipida. 
brown markings or areas of the forewing are clear brown, sometimes approaching yellow ochre and, moreover, 
the edgings or white bands round the 2 median spots are much narrower, being encroached upon by the pale 
yellow ochre. The markings of the hindwing are a little paler than in the type.” Victoria: Melbourne and 
Gisborne. So far as my limited experience goes, this would seem to be the normal form (subspecies) in Victoria 
and New South Wales. 
E. epicteta Turn. (28 i). Very similar to interruptata and showing the same kind of variation in the epideta. 
median area of the forewing. According to the measurements given the palpus may be a little longer and the 
antennal ciliation a little shorter, but the structural differences are at best so slight as to be difficult of veri¬ 
fication. Easy to distinguish, however by the subbasal line, which is much more direct and entirely lacks the 
acute angle on the 2nd submedian; the underside is less sharply marked than in interruptata, with the postmedian 
line of the hindwing markedly less sinuous. Described from Gisborne and Lome (Victoria), now known also 
from Mount Kosciusko, National Park and Cradle Mountain (Tasmania) and perhaps other localities. — ab. 
costimaculata nov. is a very extreme form, parallel to those which have occasionally been found in various Palae- costimacu- 
arctic Larentiinae, with the median band narrowed and confined to the anterior half of the wing (or less), the 
rest, excepting the basal patch and subterminal shades, whitish, almost devoid of markings. National Park, 
type a 4 in my collection. 
E. phaedra Meyr. (28 i). Palpus in 4 2, in $ 2%. Antennal ciliation minute. “A distinct and very elegant phaedm. 
species” (Meyrick), very variable, differentiated from the other yellow-hindwinged Euphyia by the extended 
brownish proximal area of the forewing (reaching to the dark antemedian band), the pale central part of the 
median area, rather strong bilobed prominence of the postmedian, etc. Hindwing with some dark marking 
at the tornus; beneath with interrupted dark border. New South Wales (type) and Queensland. 
E. officiosa Meyr. (28 i), from the Kermadac Islands, is only known in one specimen, a 9- Palpus officiosa. 
moderate. Forewing with termen nearly straight, the pattern of dark lines also mostly straightish, the subbasal 
angled near costa, the postmedian with a shallow, blackish-marked sinus. Meyrick suggested a probable re¬ 
lationship to deltoidata , but I rather suspect it may be a Xanthorhoe, perhaps of the subidaria group, though 
with weakly marked distal area. 
E. haemophaea Meyr. (28 i). 4, 34 mm. “Very distinct; nearest hemizona" . Forewing more suffused haemophaea. 
with reddish, proximal edge of median band twice acutely angled outward, distal edge with the bilobed central 
prominence obtuse, proximal subterminal shade rather well developed, a whitish costal spot close to apex. 
Whangamarino, Chatham Islands, only the type known. 
E. hemizona Meyr. (28 i). Antennal ciliation of 4 slight. Wings glossy; forewing with cell-spot moderate, hemizona. 
median band rather broad, best defined distally and especially in the anterior half, where it is succeeded by a 
white and an ochreous-tinged line, the almost rectangular projection behind the 3rd radial somewhat blackened; 
hindwing paler, greyer, very feebly marked. Both wings beneath somewhat dark shaded proximally to the 
