. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. TERATOPOEA. DARANIASIA. 271 Genus TEKATOPORA. Type. Teratopora, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1889, p. 459 hajdodes. Proboscis fully deTeloped ; palpi porrect, not reaching beyond frons, which is smoothly scaled; antennse of male with cilia and bristles; abdomen clothed with rough hair ; tibise with the spurs moderate. Fore wing rather narrow ; the costa slightly arched, the termen obliquely rounded ; Tein 1 emitting a vein from its middle running to termen and connected by a cross vein with vein 2 at middle; vein 2 f
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. TERATOPOEA. DARANIASIA. 271 Genus TEKATOPORA. Type. Teratopora, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1889, p. 459 hajdodes. Proboscis fully deTeloped ; palpi porrect, not reaching beyond frons, which is smoothly scaled; antennse of male with cilia and bristles; abdomen clothed with rough hair ; tibise with the spurs moderate. Fore wing rather narrow ; the costa slightly arched, the termen obliquely rounded ; Tein 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, curyed 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 ; U 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 haplocles. 567. Teratopora irregularis, n. sp. (S. Dull straw-yellow; tibise, 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. Hab. Queensland, 1 (S type; Yictoeia, Black Spur Eange (Anderson), 1 c5'. Kvj). 28 millim. *568. Teratopora haplodes. (Plate XXY. fig. 28.) Teratopora haplodes, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1889, p. 459 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 341. cJ. Yellowish brown; abdomen greyish towards base. Fore wing with indistinct postmedial fuscous line from upper angle of cell to inner margin, angled inwards below the cell. Hind wing whitish, slightly tinged with ochreous towards termen. Hab. N. Guinea, Pt. Moresby, type t c5" in Coll. Meyrick. £Jx^. 30 millim. Genus DARANTASIA. „ Type. Darantasia, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. iii. p. 186 (1859) ... ctmeiflena. Coutha, Wlk. xxxi. 234 (1864) semiclu
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