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RHATHYMODES; SYMPHYTA; PORELA. By Dr. K. Grunberg. 
n ana. 
lechriod.es. 
psaropis. 
nyctopis* 
vet ust a. 
vitulina. 
in the $ broad with a steep border, in the $ more oblong with a sharp apex. Diseal spot small, blackish, the 
narrow, brown prediscal and postdiscal lines as well as the submarginal row of spots often very indistinct, 
sometimes entirely absent. Both wings beneath with a red-brown discal band being often confined to a costal- 
marginal spot or also entirely absent, in the forewing the submarginal spots are mostly distinct, the marginal 
scales sometimes intensely dark brown. Australia and Tasmania. 
E. nana Wkr. (32 g) is a very small species with an expanse of scarcely 20 mm. Brownish-red, antennae 
yellowish-brown with blackish branches. Hindwing with an incomplete blackish transverse band. Tasmania. 
33. Genus: Rliatliymocles Tmr. 
Allied with Entometa. Palpi very much prolonged. Forewing trilateral, costal margin moderately, 
only before the apex more strongly bent, apex rounded, angular, margin bevelled and curved. Veins 5, 7, and 
8 forked. Hindwing rounded, veins 3, 4. 5 separate, 7 anastomosing with 8 near the base, secondary cell small, 
sending 2 strong secondary veins to the costal margin. The only species known is: 
Rh. lechriodes Tmr. $ body and wings light reddish-brown; the terminal joint of the very much pro¬ 
longed palpi darkened; antennae light brownish-yellow. Forewing with a somewhat yellowish tint and double, 
dark prediscal and postdiscal lines, the latter curved; submarginal spot brown, distinct. Hindwing uni-coloured, 
marginal scales of both wings whitish-yellow. Under surface light reddish, without marking. Queensland. 
34. Genus: Syinpliyta Tmr. 
Head with a coniformly projecting tuft of scales. Palpi moderately long, with a small terminal joint 
covered with dense hairing. Forewing trilateral, in the $ somewhat more extended, costal margin rectilinear 
to shortly before the apex, apex rounded, angular, border rectilinear, bevelled, in the $ slightly curved; veins 
4 and 5 from the posterior cell-end, 6 and 7 forked, so are 9 and 10. Hindwing rounded, veins 4 and 5 forked 
(rarely 3, 4 and 5), 7 anastomosing with 8, secondary cell with several secondary veins. 
S. psaropis Tmr. Body and wings whitish-grey; antennal shaft white, pinnae yellowish. Forewing 
thinly strewn with dark grey scales, and with a dark brown discal spot; marginal scales white with brown bases, 
sometimes also with brown apices. Hindwing likewise strewn with dark grey scales, the proximal margin 
whitish: marginal scales white with a dark brown median line. Queensland. 
S. nyctopis Tmr. Body and wings dark reddish-brown; antennae whitish-yellow. Forewing with a 
darker discal spot, the dark marginal scales at the apices spotted white. Hindwing a little lighter than forewing, 
marginal scales the same. Queensland. 
35. Genus : J*orela Wkr. 
Body densely haired, in the <$ slender, in the $ rather clumsy. antennae with long pinnae, in the 
$ with shorter ones, palpi short, projecting but little beyond the frons, densely haired. Forewing rather broad, 
trilateral, apex and anal angle rounded, hindwing broad, uniformly rounded, with an almost rectilinear costal 
margin. In the forewing vein 8 with the footstalk of 6 and 7 from the anterior cell-end or on a very short 
footstalk; the footstalk of 9 and 10 rather short. In the hindwing veins 4 and 5 from the posterior cell-end, 
7 and 8 anastomosing near the base or fused for a short distance; 1 secondary vein. The genus is confined 
to Australia. 
P. vetusta Wkr. (= varia Wkr., anthracica Tmr.) (33 e). E blackish-brown, frons, antennae and 
palpi yellowish. Thorax in front, abdomen at the apex white. Legs curled yellowish. Forewing blackish, with 
a slightly greyish marginal part, distinct white marginal spots and a white discal spot, between the latter and 
the proximal margin scaled white, behind the middle of the proximal margin a black spot; the prediscal and 
postdiscal dentate bands rather indistinct. Basal half of costal margin scaled yellow. Hindwing blackish 
with white marginal spots. $ larger, also the lateral edges of the thorax white, the white spots of the forewing 
larger. Forelegs of the $ densely covered with long white hair. 
P. vitulina Don. (33 f). Dark greyish-brown, head and the greatest part of the thorax, as well as the 
apex of the abdomen white. Antennae light brown, legs curled yellowish. Forewing with a distinct, white 
discal spot and a white subbasal band, at the costal margin and on the distal half extensively white, so that 
the brown colouring projects here in the shape of a rather distinct discal and submarginal band. Margin brown 
with white spots. Hindwing with a broad, diffuse white discal band and white marginal spots. Both wings 
beneath with a white discal band. Australia. 
