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ANTHELA. By Dr. E. Strand. 
fJavata. 
crenulaia. 
cxpansa. 
adr i ana. 
rubicunda. 
pudica. 
vinosa. 
Phoenician. 
aspilota. 
ncurospasta 
limonea. 
guenei. 
each other, the distal one enclosing a small light spot at the end of the cell; another black cliscal band is outside 
bordered with white and near it towards the apex there is a distinctly marked white, feebly dentate band. 
Hindwing light brown, with an ochre hue and a broad, dark, brown antemedian band and a double, white, 
sinuate band before the blackish margin. Expanse of wings: S 98, $ 113 mm. Queensland. 
A. flavata Swh. 9 unicoloured rather bright yellow; palpi above brown; both wings with a grey spot 
in the cell and one at the end of it, with traces of an interior, distally curved transverse line and of a broader 
postmedian line, followed by two fine notched lines. Beneath as above. Expanse of wings: 39 mm. Sherlock 
River (West Australia). 
A. crenulata Swh., 9 palpi reddish-brown; antennae, head, body, and wings above and beneath 
unicoloured ochreous grey; forewing with a small brown spot in the cell and a larger one at the end of it, a 
brown antemedian transverse band within the first spot and continued right across the hindwing, a uniformly 
notched line extends across both wings. Fringes of both wings ochreous. Expanse of wings: 69 mm. Fremantle 
(West Australia). 
A. expansa T. P . Luc. 9- Head and antennae creamy ochreous, collar black, palpi brown, abdomen 
light fawn. Fore wing dark intermixed with red scales, in the basal fifth whitish with a smoke-coloured exterior 
border-line from 1 / 6 of the costal margin to Y 4 of the posterior margin, and with a jet-black, posteriorly lighter- 
edged line from % of the costal margin to % of the posterior margin; discal spot large, creamy ochreous, edged 
with black. Marginal line and fringe smoky brown. Hindwing ochreous, scantily marked lighter and darker. 
9 118 mm. Australia (Dawson River). 
A. adriana Swh. <J. Head, body and wings chestnut-brown, prothorax and marginal areas in both 
wings slightly darker. Beneath lighter. Expanse of wings: 3414 mm. West Australia (Sherlock River). 
A. rubicunda Swh. $ antennal shaft red, pectinations black. Wings and body above and beneath as 
well as the legs unicoloured light rosy-red. Expanse of wings: 39 mm. West Australia. 
A. pudica Swh. <^9 antennal shaft ochreous white with black pectinations. Head, body and wings 
white with a flesh-coloured hue. Expanse of wings: 39 mm. West Australia. 
A. vinosa Rosenst. Purple claret-coloured, strewn with black and ochreous scales. Thorax, head and 
palpi sienna-red. Antennae whitish-grey. Forewing in the submarginal area densely dusted with ochre and 
with two feeble, parallel zigzag-shaped submarginal lines and two black discal spots. Hindwing lighter than 
forewing, similarly marked. Under surface lighter. Expanse of wings: 45 mm. South Australia. 
A. phoenicias A. J. Trnr. £ unicoloured purple without markings. Queensland, North-West Australia; 
in January and February. 36—42 mm. — Larva on Eucalyptus sp. — It is surely closely allied with rubicunda 
Swh. 
A. aspilota A. J. Trnr. 9 light brownish ochreous without markings. Vein 8 connected with the cell 
by a bar. 44 mm. Queensland, in January. 
A. ncurospasta A. J. Trnr. $ whitish. Face and palpi ochreous. Pectinations dark. Eorewing whitish 
with darker strigae: one along the costal margin, one from the disc at % t° the margin, one along the fold to 
the posterior angle, and six shorter ones terminating into the margin. Hindwing as forewing, but without the 
costal streak, and the dorsal streak not extending to the base (? cf. forewing!). 38 mm. Queensland. 
A. limonea Btlr. (58 b) d 1 . Wings lemon-coloured with a rusty reddish postmedian transverse line and 
an ochreous line midway between the former and the base of the wing, both bands beginning on the costal 
margin in a lead-coloured nebulous spot; besides two angular rusty reddish marks on the costal margin and an 
indistinct lead-coloured undulate line outside and parallel to the said postmedian line; beneath the wings 
exhibit two brownish spots in the cell. Body yellow, beneath somewhat golden. Expanse of wings: 43 mm. 
9 wings ochreous with a paler discal spot and a brown, distally yellow-edged postmedian line and an obsolete 
ochreous line towards the base, and a slate-coloured undulating line. Forewing with 2 brown spots at the end 
of the cell. Body light ochreous, analwards darker. Wings beneath ochreous with slate-coloured transverse 
lines and two brown spots in the cell of the hindwing. Australia (Rockhampton). 
A. guenei Newm. <$■ Wings blackish-brown, with two white spots on each wing, the larger one at the 
end of the cell, the smaller one in the centre of it. Fringe reddish-yellow. Body reddish-yellow, thoracal dorsum 
however brown and abdomen, especially in the anal half, with narrow black transverse bands. Expanse of 
wings: 45 mm. Australia (Victoria). 
