ANTHELA. By Dr. E. Strand. 
conspersa. 
excisa. 
excellens. 
moretonen- 
sis. 
xantharcha. 
pyromacu- 
la. 
heliopa. 
callixantha. 
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A. conspersa Wkr. (= quadriplaga Wkr., potentaria Wkr.) is allied to consors (36 e). Light yellow. 
Head with a reddish band. Palpi and legs red. the hind knees with a white spot. Wings with a reddish oblique 
median band and with different reddish spots and patches. Forewing with two small white diseal ocelli edged 
with reddish. In the hindwing the median band is distally accompanied by a yellow band which is partly present 
in the forewing. Expanse of wings: 37 mm. South East Australia. 
A. excisa Wkr. (46 c). $ yellow. Head in front partly red like the palpi, tibiae and tarsi. Wings 
with a yellow band and brown spots. Forewing with two small white, black-edged discal ocelli and with two 
red spots near the anterior part of the distal margin which is bordered with red, where it touches the costal 
margin. Hindwing with two black discal spots which are the most distinct beneath, and a reddish mark near 
the anal angle. Expanse of wings: 33 to 50 mm. Sydney. Tasmania. — The best discernible from A. acuta 
by the white-centred discal spot of the forewing. 
A. excellens Wkr. $ reddish fawn-coloured. Head whitish with a reddish spot between the antennae 
which are brownish-yellow. Legs tor the greatest part whitish, a whitish spot at the end of each femur. Wings 
yellowish beyond the straight, oblique, ferruginous reddish band which extends from about 4 / 5 of the costal 
margin of the forewing to beyond the centre of the hind-margin of the hindwing and is edged with whitish; 
between it and the distal margin there are two reddish zigzag bands the angles of which are black. Forewing 
with two white, grey-edged discal ocelli. Expanse of wings: 82 mm. Australia. -— A female from the Coll. 
Seitz which is before me. from Moreton Bay, with an expanse of 73 mm. I should like to place to this species, 
but the legs appear to be more fawn-coloured than whitish, though densely speckled with whitish scales; beside 
the large, pifrely white spot at the end of the femora there is a small one at the ends of the tibiae. The dark 
transverse band of the wings is not edged with whitish, but distally rather ochre-yellowish, whereas inside 
the light fawn-coloured ground-colour is directly contiguous. Between the band and the distal margin the 
colouring is dark brownish-yellow, and the two reddish zigzag lines are only yet discernible in the costal area. 
The discal ocelli of the forewing are almost punctiform and not white-centred. The distal margin of the forewing 
ist very convex, the apex slightly falcate. Vein 8 of the hindwing far remote from 7 and connected with 
it by a very oblique transverse vein. I denominate this form (which may be a distinct species) moretonensis 
form. nov. (46 c, as excellens). 
A. xantharcha Meyr. $ 63 mm. Head brown, antennae blackish, in some places speckled with light 
yellowish. Thorax blackish mixed with white and ferruginous reddish. Abdomen ferruginous-red, anal brush 
yellowish-white. Legs blackish, speckled with light yellowish, hairing of femora partly ferruginous red. Forewing 
triangular with a roundish and somewhat oblique distal margin; dark brown, densely strewn with white hairs, 
and with some light ferruginous red scales; three undulate brownish-black lines, the first of which extends 
from % of the costal margin to of the hind-margin and is sharply angular above the centre, whilst the 
second and third are close together beyond the centre, feebly curved towards the base; discal spot small, round, 
white, encircled with black above the centre, directly before the second line; a distal-marginal band, almost 
without any white speckles, is at the proximal edge straight and dentate. Hindwing light whitish-yellow, of 
a brighter yellow towards the base, in the submedian fold with orange hair; an indistinct grey straight median 
line; a broad dark grey marginal band, speckled with yellowish-white, enclosing before the proximal margin 
a row of indistinct grey spots and an indistinct dentate subterminal line. Under surface of both wings whitish 
with a black discal spot and median line. Forewing centrally orange with a white, black-edged spot as above. 
Koolunga (South Australia). 
A. pyromacula Low. <$ 48 mm. Body and antennae, also the pinnae (10). dark brown. Forewing 
shaped as in callispila, dark brown, strewn with fine dingy white scales and more or less dark brown striated 
along the veins towards the margin, a'black line along vein 2, a somewhat wedge-shaped orange-red, black-edged 
spot at the anterior end of the cell, a rather large, round, similarly shaped spot in the cell at the posterior end; 
fringes dark brown, very feebly marked darker. Hindwing with an almost straight distal margin, the colouring 
and fringes like in the forewing, basal half of the wing with long brown hair. Under surface of forewing and 
hindwing with one dingy white spot each at the posterior end of the cell. Broken Hill (New South Wales); 
in September. 
A. heliopa Low. $ 40 mm. Lighter and darker oehreous. Forewing somewhat yellowish, in the 
two basal thirds the darkest, with two curved, dark purple bands and a similarly coloured, whitish-centred 
discocellular spot, as well as a curved row of dark subterminal spots. Fringes yellow. Hindwing like the forewing, 
but the first line is absent. Western Australia; in October. 
A. callixantha Low. $ 40 mm. Canary-coloured. Forewing with four dark transverse lines, the 
3 discal ones of which are almost parallel, the last being subterminal. Hindwing like the forewing, but the 
first transverse line is absent. West Australia ; in December. 
