CHENUALA; EPICOMA. By Dr. E. Strand. 
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A. elisabetha White. $ (58 a) light fawn-coloured. Head in front, palpi, chest and legs reddish. Antennae elimbeiha. 
white with brown pectinations. Abdomen above brownish-yellow, beneath reddish. Forewing with an oblique 
band of brown spots, at % of its length; under surface and hindwing reddish. Expanse of wings: 37- mm. King 
George’s Sound. 
A. epicrypha Swh. pale vermilion-grey, very monotonously coloured, with traces of an antemedian epicrypha. 
curved grey line, a brownish discocellular spot, a discal sinuate grey line, then a notched grey, somewhat spotted 
line; these two lines are divergent towards the costa in the hindwing, the inner line here corresponding to the 
exterior line on the forewing. Expanse of wings: 90% mm. New South Wales. 
A. carrseotincta Swh. uniformly ochreous grey with a flesh-coloured hue, the $ being darkest, carneolinc- 
Antennae, palpi, chest, ventrum, and legs ochreous. Forewing with a brown spot in the cell and one at the 
end of it, an indistinct notched grey line extends across the surface of both wings and almost parallel to the 
margin. Fringes in both wings ochreous. The $ shows besides an interior discal double band in the forewing 
and traces of a similar band in the hindwing, as well as traces of an antemedian transverse band in both wings. 
Expanse of wings: <$ 66, 9 86 mm. Fremantle. 
48. Genus: dieiuiala Swh. 
$: palpi porrect, short, thin. Antennae bipectinate. Middle and hind tibiae with short terminal spurs. 
In the forewing veins 2, 3 and 4 are equidistant from each other, 5 from the angle, 6 from the anterior angle; 
areola very long, from the centre of its posterior side 7 proceeds, from its apex 8 and 9, 8 terminating into 
the apex or very shortly before it, whereas 10 rises from the apical third of the anterior margin of the areola. 
Hindwing: veins 2 and 5 as in forew'ing; the discocellular is angled, 6 and 7 rise from the anterior angle, 8 is 
distantly remote from 7 and connected with it by a bar. 
Ch. rufa Swh. $ orange-red. Forewing with a small black discocellular spot and a light grey sinuate rufa. 
antemedian line and two similar bands across the surface of the wing. Under surface lighter, forewing with a 
brown spot in the cell and at the end of it. Expanse of wings: 59 mm. Queensland. 
Appendix. 
On the editor’s request I append here to the Lymantriidae a small group of Australian genera most 
of which were hitherto ranged among the Lymantriidae , though they differ from them in vein 5 of the forewing 
rising at the same distance from 6 and 4, or nearer to 6 than to 4, etc. In this respect and also otherwise the 
,,Tearas“ correspond rather well with the E upterotidae in which family they were also inserted e. g. by Turner 
(1902) and Swinhoe (1903). The habits of the larvae are very much like those of our processionary larvae and 
are presumably the most closely allied to the family of Thaumetopoeidae, as I had already ascertained in Vol. II, 
p. 143. They differ, however, in the scaling of the wings not being thin and intermixed with hairs as in the 
Thaumetopoeidae, but very dense, the apex of the wings being mostly rather sharp, the termen oblique and 
convex, the type of marking different; an areola may be present, veins 6 and 7 of the hindwing are on a long 
stalk, 3 and 4 of the same wing, however, distantly separated from each other, 8 being also separated from 7, 
though they are nearer together. — Moreover these genera are somewhat different among themselves, and as 
part of them are unknown to me and their original descriptions are very insufficient, their systematic position 
remains questionable for the present. 
1. Genus: Epicoma Hbn. (Marane Wkr..) 
Mostly small lepidoptera with pointed forewings and a straight costal margin and oblique distal margin, 
the colour being mostly blackish with a lighter margin and marking of the fringes, or silvery greyish. In the 
forewing veins 2—4 are almost equidistant and rather remote from each other, 5 is equidistant from 4 and 6, 
6 rises behind the angle of the cell and also remote from 7 which rises from the angle and is stalked with 8 9 -j- 10, 
8 terminating into the apex of the wing, 9 and 10 into the costal margin, 10 rising almost as distantly from 
the base of 7 as from 8 -)- 9. Thus there is no areola present. In the hindwing 3 is about twice a distant from 
