. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 624 NucTriD-s. 5944. Eulocastra fasciata. Eulocasfra fasciata, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soe. 1886, p. 419, pi. x. f, 6. Head and base of tegulse orange-yellow ; palpi blackish behind ; anlennse blactish ringed with yellow ; thorax glossy black-brown slightly mixed with yellow ; pectus and legs yellow, the fore tibiae and tarsi banded with black; abdomen yellowish white. Fore wing yellowish white ; the basal area glossy black-brown with a. Fig. \QQ.—Eulocastra fasciata, c?. \. patch of yellowish white at base of inner margin and a su
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 624 NucTriD-s. 5944. Eulocastra fasciata. Eulocasfra fasciata, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soe. 1886, p. 419, pi. x. f, 6. Head and base of tegulse orange-yellow ; palpi blackish behind ; anlennse blactish ringed with yellow ; thorax glossy black-brown slightly mixed with yellow ; pectus and legs yellow, the fore tibiae and tarsi banded with black; abdomen yellowish white. Fore wing yellowish white ; the basal area glossy black-brown with a. Fig. \QQ.—Eulocastra fasciata, c?. \. patch of yellowish white at base of inner margin and a subbasal striga from costa; a black-brown medial band, its inner edge waved, its outer excurved at lower anole of cell ; a subtermina black-brown band, slightly angled inwards at discal fold and narrowing to tornus ; black-brown patches on termen and cilia at middle and above tornus. Hind wing yellowish white, the underside with a black-brown patch at middle of costa and bar from costa before apex. Ab. 1. Fore wing with the medial band obsolete on costal area and separated from a black discoidal spot. Hah. N. Atjstkalia, Port Darwin (Buckland), 1 $ ; Queensland, Brisbane (Turner), 2 c?, 2 $ ; N. S. Wales, Sydney, 1 c? type. Ex^. 18-20 millim. 5945. Eulocastra quintana. Acontia quintama, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 455, pi. 27. f. 13; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 318. Head and thorax whitish mixed with brown, the head tinged with ochreous ; pectus and legs ochreous white, the fore tibiae and tarsi brown ringed with white; abdomen white with indistinct brownish dorsal bands. Fore wing white, the basal area suffused with purple-grey, a tuft of raised rufous scales below base of cell, its outer edge sinuous with tufts of raised black scales below costa and cell and above inner margin; antemedial line purplish, double, erect, waved, with two blackish points on it at costa and a point on its outer edge in cell; medial area purplish grey with a black spot in end of cell defined by white on
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