. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. TEEATOPORA. DARANTASIA. 271 Genus TEEATOPORA. Type. Teratopora, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1889, p. 459 haplodes. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, not reaching beyond frons, which is smoothly scaled; antennae of male with cilia and bristles; abdomen clothed with rough hair ; tibi£e with the spurs moderate. Fore wing rather narrow ; the costa slightly arched, the termen obliquely rounded ; vein 1 emitting a vein from its middle running to termen and connected by a cross vein with vein 2 at middle; vein 2 from long before e
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. TEEATOPORA. DARANTASIA. 271 Genus TEEATOPORA. Type. Teratopora, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1889, p. 459 haplodes. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, not reaching beyond frons, which is smoothly scaled; antennae of male with cilia and bristles; abdomen clothed with rough hair ; tibi£e with the spurs moderate. Fore wing rather narrow ; the costa slightly arched, the termen obliquely rounded ; vein 1 emitting a vein from its middle running to termen and connected by a cross vein with vein 2 at middle; vein 2 from long before end of cell, curved near base; 3, 4 shortly stalked; 5 from just above angle of cell; 6, 7 stalked, 8, 9 absent, 10 shortly stalked with 6, 7 ; 11 from cell, free. Hind wing broad, the termen obtusely angled at middle; vein 2 from middle of cell; 3, 4 stalked ; 6 absent; 6, 7 coincident; 8 from middle of cell, arched. A. Hind wing yellow irregularis. B. Hind wing whitish , haplodes. 567. Teratopora irregularis, n. sp. S. Dull straw-yellow; tibiae, tarsi, and abdomen above tinged with fuscous. Fore wing with indistinct diffused oblique fuscous. Fig. 191.— Teratopora irregularis, (^. }. band from lower angle of cell to inner margin, the area beyond it tinged with fuscous. Hind wing yellower. Bab. Queensland, 1 <S type; Yictoria, Black Spur Eange (Anderson), 1 ^ . Kvj^. 28 millim. *568. Teratopora haplodes. (Plate XXV. fig. 28.) Teratopora haplodes, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1889, p. 459; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 341. c?. Yellowish brown; abdomen greyish towards base. Fore wing with indistinct postmedial fuscous line from upper angle of coll to inner margin, angled inwards below the cell. Hind wing whitish, slightly tinged with ochreous towards termen. I/((b. N. Guinea, Pt. Moresby, type t cS in Coll. Meyrick. 30 millim. Genus DARANTASIA. Type. Burantasia, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. iii. p. 186 (1859) ... cuneiplena. Couiha, Wlk. xxxi. 234 (1864) seviiclusa. PeroMe;!w, Meyr.
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