. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 558 AGARISTID^. IJah. N. Guinea, Milne Bay {Meeh), type t $ in Coll. lloth- 8cluld. Exp. GO millim. 56. Phalsenoides glycinse. Phalanoides glycincB, Lewin, Lep, Ins. N. S. Wales, p. 2, pi. 1 (1805) ; Boisd. Spec. Geu. Lep. i. pi. 14. f. 3; McCoy, Prodr. Zool. Vict, i. pi. 8. flP. 9-13 ; Eirby, Cat. Het. p. 22. Black ; palpi at base and extremity of 2nd joint banded with yellow; sides of frons, vertex of head, tegulae, patagia, and vertex of thorax striped with g
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 558 AGARISTID^. IJah. N. Guinea, Milne Bay {Meeh), type t $ in Coll. lloth- 8cluld. Exp. GO millim. 56. Phalsenoides glycinse. Phalanoides glycincB, Lewin, Lep, Ins. N. S. Wales, p. 2, pi. 1 (1805) ; Boisd. Spec. Geu. Lep. i. pi. 14. f. 3; McCoy, Prodr. Zool. Vict, i. pi. 8. flP. 9-13 ; Eirby, Cat. Het. p. 22. Black ; palpi at base and extremity of 2nd joint banded with yellow; sides of frons, vertex of head, tegulae, patagia, and vertex of thorax striped with greenish yellow ; guise and throat yellow ; the hair on pectus, femora, and mid and hind tibiae fulvous orange;. Fig. 246.—ThalcBnoides glycines, c?. \. fore tibiae fringed with yellow and ^jlack hair ; tibiae and tarsi with white points; abdomen with the terminal segment and a series of ventral bands fulvous orange. Pore wing with two greenish-yellow points at base ; a subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, where it emits a streak nearly to the oblique antemedial line which is incurved to inner margin ; a yellow bar across end of cell with some greenish scales above it: an oblique yellow band with irregularly sinuous edges from below costa beyond middle to above tornus, some greenish scales beyond it between costa and vein 5 and below vein 1 beyond middle; a series of slight white snbterminal streaks on the veins usually present; cilia white at apex. Hind wing with a yellow patch just beyond the cell often developed in male ; a series of pale yellow spots on the veins at termen and the cilia yellow ; underside with a yellow fascia below basal half of costa, with a more or less developed curved band from its extremity to just beyond lower angle of cell, and a postmedial series of short bluish- white streaks on the veins. Hah. N. S. Wales, Mrmdi (Rai/nor), 2 c?, 4 $ ; Victoria, Mel- bourne {Furser\ 10 c?, 4 $ . Eccp., J 54, $ 60 millim. Larva. Scott, Austral. Lep. ii. p.
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