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EUTRICHOPIDIA; PHALAENOIDES; MIMEU8EMIA. By Dr. K. Jordan. 
13. Genus: Kutricliophlia Ramps. 
Similar to Agarista, but at once recognised by the densely hairy eyes and by the mid tibia bearing 
long orange hair. — The hairs of the larva simple, not being dilated at the apex as in Agarista. —- One 
Australian species. 
Minus. E. latinus Don. (= latina [Don.] Hamps.) (2 g). Black, without gloss, head, pronotum, palpi and the 
distal margin of the hindwing with yellowish white markings; forewing with a transverse band which runs 
from 3 / 5 of the costa towards the hind angle and is rather more distinctly yellow. Larva yellow; head, legs, 
stigmata and a large dorsal patch on segment 11 red, below the stigmata a black stripe from which extend 
numerous thin back lines across the back; hairs thin, pale. On Haloragis teucrioides. The dark brown pupa 
in the ground near the surface. — Tasmania and New South Wales, abundant. 
14. Genus: PhaIacnoi<les Lewin. 
Frons very strongly conical, with a ring at the apex of the cone. Antennae distinctly incrassate, 
feebly flattened, not laterally compressed, with obtuse tip. In contradistinction to Eutrichopidia the eyes 
not hairy. Segments 1 and 2 of palpi with long hair, 3 naked, long. Base of abdomen above and mid 
tibia with rough hair. In the forewing subcostal 2 from the areole, radials 2 and 3 and median 1 close 
together, medians 1 and 2 as far apart at cell as or further than at distal margin. In the hindwing me¬ 
dian 2 near apex of cell. — Hairs of larvae as in Eutrichopidia not widened at apex. ■— Three Australian species; 
the other species placed here by Hampson have setiform antennae. 
glycinae. P. glycinae Lewin (2 g). Black, the apex of the abdomen, the long hair on the coxae, femora and tibiae 
deep orange; thorax with yellowish streaks. Forewing with some bluish lines in the basal area, a yellowish 
cell-spot, and a likewise yellowish oblique discal band, which is proximally incurved twice; before the distal 
margin thin vein-streaks. Hindwing black, with yellowish white distal margin and frequently a yellowish central 
spot. The markings larger on the underside and, on the hindwing, more numerous. Larvae on species of Vitis 
and Cissus and other plants, often very injurious in vineyards; according to Scott they are not eaten by birds 
and eject a green liquid from the mouth when they are irritated. They do not only eat the leaves, but also 
attack the young berries. The eggs are laid on the stems of the vine. Larva deep greenish yellow to white, 
with numerous thin black transverse lines, below the stigmata a row of red spots, segment 11 with a broad 
red transverse band; head and pronotum yellow in the inflated specimen before me. Pupa in the ground 
near the surface. Before the introduction of the vine, the principal food-plant of glycinae was Gnaphalium 
luteoalbum. 
tristifica. P. tristifica 11 bn. (= lewini Bdv.) (3 a) is smaller than glycinae, bearing on the forewing a thin sub- 
basal band, an interrupted broader band, a cell-spot, one or two spots before the hind margin, a discal band 
reaching to the lower median vein, and two rows of small spots in the distal-marginal area. Hindwing with 
yellowish white marginal spots. Specimens with yellowish white central spot on the upperside of the hind- 
cphyra. wing are ab. ephyra Angas (3 a). Larva on Epilobium, Oenothera, Balsamina; pale yellow, with numerous 
thin black transverse lines, head, pronotum and legs yellow, segment 11 with a red transverse band; according 
to Scott without red lateral spots. Pupa in the ground near the surface. 
polysticta. P. polysticta Bull. (3 a). Hind tibia black; forewing at the hind margin with a dot near the base 
and a square spot in the centre; in the marginal area only one row of small spots; otherwise similar to tristi- 
buileri. fica. In ab. butleri Swinh. the hindwing has above and beneath a large discal spot of the yellowish white colour 
of the spots of the forewing. —- New South Wales and Western Australia; much rarer in collections than the 
preceding species. 
15. Genus: ^1 imeiisc'iiiis* Bull. 
Differs from Phalaenoides chiefly in the abdomen bearing on the upperside at the base tufts of hair which 
are more or less metallic, and in the hair and scaling of the mid tibia being smooth. In the $ the antenna is 
sometimes setiform. Segment 2 of the palpi is characteristically developed in the typical species: the hair 
on the ventral side is longer at the apex of the segment than at the base, the segment (inclusive of the hair) 
therefore being widened apically in a lateral aspect. — The larva, which is only known of one species from 
Australia, resembles that of Phalaenoides, but has no red patch on segment 11. — This and the following 
genus are so closely allied that it would perhaps be advisable to unite them. Indo-Australian, one species Pale- 
arctic; according to Hampson also an African species belongs here. 
