. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 490 K0C1DIDJ5. Ab. 2. Hind wing whiter, the veins and terminal edge only tinged with brown, the black points appearing on upperside.—W. Australia. Hah. Queensland, Brisbane {Turner), 1 cJ , 2 5 ; W. Australia, Eoebourne {Lyell), 1 $ . Exp. 34-38 millim. 1846. CirpMs leucosta. (Plate XCI. fig. 26.) Leucania leucosta, Lower, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W, xxvi. p. 64i (1901). J . Head and thorax deep purplish red ; abdomen pale reddish brown, purplish red on ventral surface. Fore wing deep purple- red irrorated with black and grey ; th


. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 490 K0C1DIDJ5. Ab. 2. Hind wing whiter, the veins and terminal edge only tinged with brown, the black points appearing on upperside.—W. Australia. Hah. Queensland, Brisbane {Turner), 1 cJ , 2 5 ; W. Australia, Eoebourne {Lyell), 1 $ . Exp. 34-38 millim. 1846. CirpMs leucosta. (Plate XCI. fig. 26.) Leucania leucosta, Lower, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W, xxvi. p. 64i (1901). J . Head and thorax deep purplish red ; abdomen pale reddish brown, purplish red on ventral surface. Fore wing deep purple- red irrorated with black and grey ; the costal edge Avhite ; traces of an oblique antemedial line; a white point on a small fuscous patch at lower angle of cell; traces of a curved postmedial series of dark points on the veins and of a terminal series ; cilia with a fine pale line at base. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area to vein 2 suffused with purplish red ; cilia purplish red with a fine pale line at base; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with purplish red, some black points on termen. Hah. Queensland, 1 cJ ; S. AusipaLiA. Exp. 34 millim. Fore tibire of male moderately fringed with hair on both sides ; the femora and coxce fringed with long bair. a^. Anal tufts of male very large ; fore wing without black point in lower angle of eell Icueospkeiii b'^. Anal tufts of male moderate; fore wing with black point in lower angle of cell lasiornera. *1847. Cirphis leucosplienia. Leucania leticosphetiia, Beth. Baker, A. M. N. H. (7) xv. p. 198 (1905). Head and thorax ochreous mixed with rufous and dark brown ; tegulaj with strong dark medial line; abdomen ochreous, slightly tinged with purplish pink and irrorated with dark brown. Fore. Fig. 152.— Cirphis kucosphcnia, cJ. [. wing ochreous thickly irrorated with fuscous ; the veins defined by fine fuscous streaks, the interspaces also streaked with fuscous ; an oblique black streak above inner margin before middle ; a short. Pleas


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