. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. CASTULO. 523. Fig. 377.— Castillo nivosa, J. Hind wing yellow, slightly tinged with pink; a slight discoidal point; a moderately broad blackish terminal band. $ with large greyish anal tutt. Hab. Victoria, Fernshaw; Tasmania, Hobarfc, 1 d, type rubri- costa, {Mathew) 1 § • Exp. 30-32 millim. Sect. II. AntennsB of male with bristles and cilia. A. {Lerna). Fore wing with the apex acute ; the ternien straight. 1122. Castulo nivosa. Lerna nivosa, Wlk. xxxiii. 805 (1865); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 431. Pure white; palpi and frons orange;


. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. CASTULO. 523. Fig. 377.— Castillo nivosa, J. Hind wing yellow, slightly tinged with pink; a slight discoidal point; a moderately broad blackish terminal band. $ with large greyish anal tutt. Hab. Victoria, Fernshaw; Tasmania, Hobarfc, 1 d, type rubri- costa, {Mathew) 1 § • Exp. 30-32 millim. Sect. II. AntennsB of male with bristles and cilia. A. {Lerna). Fore wing with the apex acute ; the ternien straight. 1122. Castulo nivosa. Lerna nivosa, Wlk. xxxiii. 805 (1865); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 431. Pure white; palpi and frons orange; antennae blackish; pectus and legs orange, tarsi ringed with black; abdo- men tinged with orange towards extremity. Fore wing with black fascia on costa to near apex; sub- basal, medial, and post- medial black spots below costa, the last with orange streak on costa above and beyond it to near apex ; a series of six black spots on termen and cilia. Hind wing with more or less developed subterminal black spot on vein 2. Hah. K. S. Wales, Sydney (Darnel), 2 ? type, (Eaynor) 1 c? , 1 ? ; YiCTOEiA, Melbourne (Lticas), 1 d", 1 5 . Ea.^). 28-30 millim. B. Fore wing with the termen strongly excised below apex. a. Fore wing with triangular black patch occupying all except costal and terminal areas conographa. b. Fore wing with two black bands discrepans. 1123. Castulo conographa. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 27.) Termessa conographa, Meyr. P. Linn. Soe. N. S. W. (2) i. p. 714 (1886); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. •2V»8. <S. Orange-yellow; palpi except at base, and frons black; extremities of patagia and thorax black ; tibiae and tarsi above black. Fore wing with triangular black patch occupying the whole wing except the base, the costal and terminal areas, and extending onto the cilia at torni;s ; the apex and two points on excised part of termen black. Hind wing with terminal black band formed by three conjoined patches, sometimes interrupted at vein 4. Hah. Queensland, Brisbane; X. S. Wal


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