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cell mark; a subbasal black dot in cell; some slight green costal spots; a fine brown terminal line; bindwing 
white, with faint brownish cell mark; a diffuse oblique outer band, and a narrow terminal band from apex 
to vein 2. W. Australia. 
A. pura Swinh. Forewing white, crossed by two oblique bands of ochreous and brown scales; the inner pura. 
formed by a striga in cell, and a slightly waved and incurved line from cell to inner margin; the outer 
running from vein 7 and incurved below vein 4; some small brown terminal points; hindwing white; the 
terminal half tinged with brown from apex to vein 3; a punctiform brown terminal line from apex to vein 2. 
W. Australia. 
88. Genus ; Aeg’le Hbn. 
Tongue present; frons produced into a flattened bifid horny process from middle and curved corneous 
plate below it, produced to a point at middle; palpi porrect, slender, the terminal segment distinct; 
scaling smooth; thorax and abdomen without crests. Larva with 16 feet, slender, smooth, living on Delphi¬ 
nium in autumn, pupating in a spun cocoon; the imago emerges the following summer; pupa, of the only species 
known, with the tongue-sheath projecting. Type Ae. koeJceritziana Hbn. 
Ae. hedychroa Trnr. (21 k). Forewing whitish tinged with flesh-colour; a black dot at base of hedychroa. 
costa; lines black; subbasal line angled inwards on median vein; inner line waved, irregular, preceded 
by a black patch on costa and in cell, and by two black dots above vein 1; outer line waved, starting from 
a black costal spot, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; median band maculate, 
brownish, forming a patch on inner margin; subterminal line similar, preceded by a black costal patch 
reaching vein 6, and by 2 black spots above and below vein 2, and with fuscous spots beyond it; reniform 
stigma brownish, elliptical; hindwing ochreous brown. Queensland, N. Australia; described from a single <$. 
The species will probably require a new genus; it differs altogether in markings from the rest which are all 
Palaearctic. 
89. Genus: Opsyra Hmps. 
Tongue present; frons smooth and flat; palpi obliquely porrect, the second segment roughly hair¬ 
ed, the third blunt; antennae of $ lamellate, pubescent; thorax clothed with spatulate hairs; abdomen 
elongate, with slight crest on basal segment; wings bronzy, with lustrous scales; neuration normal. Type 
0. chalcoela Hmps. 
The species of this and the succeeding Genus are of weak and fragile structure. 
0. chalcoela Hmps. (21 h). Forewing rich brown along costa, bronzy olive ochreous towards inner chalcoela. 
and outer margins; all the lines, especially on costa, shown up by lustrous blue scales; median area olive 
brown; the inner line curved, preceded by lustrous scales; the outer excurved above and incurved below, 
edged with shining yellow; reniform stigma, large, round, with a pale golden sheen in outer half; sub¬ 
marginal line lustrous, only plain above anal angle; a bluish white line close before termen; an orange 
and yellow costal spot near base; inner margin and outer line with coarse black scales in places; hind¬ 
wing olive fuscous, with a pale outer line; inner margin pale bronzy with two short lines of black scales. 
Occurs in Sikkim, N. India: also found in China. 
90. Genus: Protoseudyra Hmps. 
Tongue present; frons strongly protuberant, produced in middle to a blunt point; palpi porrect, 
weak, the second segment hairy, the third small, pointed, depressed; vestiture hairy; abdomen elongate, 
with a metallic boss on basal segment; femora and tibiae long-haired; antennae of $ lamellate, pubescent; 
forewing with apex rounded and depressed. Insects of weak build, like the last genus, somewhat resem¬ 
bling some Larentiad moths; in the hindwing the radial rises from the centre of discocellular. Type P. 
picta Hmps. 
