CHARAGIA. By R. Peitzner f and M. Gaede. 
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greenish or pink at the end. Forewing pale green or pink; in the latter case with or without green dusting, 
with irregular dark striae. A white streak at the costal margin as far as % of its length. A fine streak 
from near the base to behind the centre of the inner margin, then bent upwards and parallel to the distal 
margin to % of the costal margin. Hindwing with an undulate margin, white, greenish or pink at the 
anal angle. Forewing of the $ reddish-brown with a large green triangular spot below the costal margin 
from 1 / 8 to % of its length; the lower point of the triangle is rounded, extending to almost the centre of 
the inner margin. Hindwing pale red, brownish at the anal angle. 40—72 mm. Albany (Australia). 
Ch. scotti Scott (76 a). Thorax and forewing in both sexes green with more or less distinct purple scotti. 
brown spots and macular band. Hindwing yellowish-red. Expanse of $ up to 112 mm. Richmond River, 
New South Wales, Queensland. Larva on Wistaria. — blackbumi Lew. may be only a subordinate form. Smaller blackburni. 
($ 75 mm), lighter. Forewing more yellowish-green, hindwing reddish salmon-coloured. Forewing with brown 
costal spots, a brown macular band extends from the inner margin to the apex. South Australia (Port Lin¬ 
coln). — Another form to be ranged here is: dulcis Swh. from West Australia (Swan River). Thorax and dulcis. 
forewing grass-green, abdomen and hindwing red. Forewing with two white discal transverse bands bordered 
with brown, not quite reaching the costa and inner margin. The bands are well separated and parallel to 
the distal margin. They make the impression of macular bands, as they are composed of lunules. Distal 
and inner margins with a brown band, the margin white. Under surface uniformly reddish, the white band 
showing through from above. 110 mm. 
Ch. daplinarsdrae Lucas, all the wings sharply pointed. Forewing dull green, the costa spotted daphnan- 
brown, hindwing light ochreous at the distal margin, with a slight greenish hue in the middle, reddish at the drae 
base. Thorax greyish-green, abdomen reddish, green at the end. 70 mm. I received a peculiar aberration 
from Queensland, in which the green of the forewing and the yellowish-red of the hindwing are uniformly 
replaced by a dull creamy yellow which deepens somewhat at the costal margin of the forewing. The basal 
hair of the hindwing shows yet a faint pink shine; the colouring of the scent-pencils is the normal light 
brown colour. Thorax and abdomen likewise creamy, with a greenish tint at the head and at the end. 
Legs and under surface creamy. I denominate this form which I received from Swinhoe: ab. swinhoei Pf. swinhoei. 
$ much larger. Head and thorax green, legs reddish. Basal third of abdomen red, the rest green. Forewing 
broad, triangular. Costal margin curved towards the apex, distal margin straight. Green with purple brown 
spots at the costal margin, especially in the middle third. Numerous indistinct short bluish streaks or spots, 
moreover a dark line, interrupted between the veins, from % of the costal margin to the centre of the inner 
margin. Veins deeper green. Small brown marginal spots between the veins. Fringe purple green. Hindwing 
vermilion, the rest yellowish-green, fringe olive green ( swinhoei is figured in pi. 74 b, but named “rosatus” $ 
by mistake), daphnandrae chiefly inhabits Queensland. — hilaris Luc. 58—62 mm, body 34 mm. Head hilciris. 
green, antennae red, thorax greenish ochre with dark grey lines, abdomen greenish ochre with a long orange 
pencil on each side. Forewing falcate, light pea-green, its entire length crossed by pearl-like rings and bands 
of a milky blue and light bluish-green colour, enclosing spots of the ground-colour, so that a very pretty 
speckled exterior is produced. Costa deep sea-green, a series of creamy white lustrous silvery spots from be¬ 
low % of the costa to vein 2 above the centre of the inner margin. A feeble row of peai’l-like milky blue 
rings from 4 / 5 of the costa to 3 / 5 of the inner margin, a similarly coloured dentate one directly behind it, 
and another submarginal one with lunules concave and opposite to it. Fringe olive green. Hindwing milky 
blue, fringe olive green. $ 75—90 mm, body 45 mm. Head and thorax green, antennae red, abdomen red, 
posterior half green. Forewing pea-green, inner margin very oblique round, costa with purple red spots. Distal 
and inner margins edged with purple red, interrupted at the apex by veins. Pea-green and covered with 
small blended rings of sea-green between the veins, so that in contrast with the enclosed green ground 
a resemblance to a checkered floor is produced. More distinct in the distal part, less distinct at the base. 
Two small discal spots edged with purple brown. Hindwing salmon-coloured. Apex and inner margin light olive 
green. Fringe olive brown. Gippsland. In trunks of the “wattle-tree” (Acacia). 
Ch. exirnia Scott (73 c) may be regarded as the transition to the following group, the magnificent eximia. 
ramsayi- group and its allied forms. $ with a bluish-green forewing with an oblique postmedian band of golden 
spots, not reaching the two margins. Many short silvery streaks, those behind the band forming rows of rings. 
Hindwing greenish-blue. $ forewing and body darker green, abdomen pink in the centre. Forewing with 
purple brown spots at the costal margin. The band of brown spots, partly centred silvery. Hindwing dark 
pink, passing over into dark green at the apex. — Habits of the larva: the young larva eats a hole into the 
tree, covers it with a thin web. It bores down the trunk as deep as 5 ft., eats up the web before the meta¬ 
morphosis and replaces it by a thin wadding-like stopper at the entrance of the hole in which it moves up 
and down. On Lilly-Pilly (Eugenia smithi) and the “Watergreen” (Phyllanthus ferdinandi). Bloch-Fig (Ficus 
aspira). Pupation in August, imago in October. New South Wales. 
Ch. ramsayi Scott (73 a). This and the following ( mirabilis -) group contains the most beautiful Hepialidae ramsayi. 
of Australia, perhaps of the whole world. The ramsayi- group is distinguished by the forewings of both sexes 
being profusely marked with silvery spots and by the size (<$ 100, § 140 mm). $ pale green, $ forewing dark 
