. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 2G8 AECTIAD^. *561. Macaduma toxophora. (Plate XXV. fig. 26.) Psapharach toxophora, Turner, Trans. E. Soc. S. Austr. 1899, p. 15. 2 . Head and thorax greyish brown ; abdomen greyish fuscous. Fore wing greyish brown, irrorated with a few darker scales ; the costal area tinged with white; subbasal and medial small black spots on costa; a white discoidal spot; the postmedial line indis- tinct, arising from a black spot on costa below which it is strongly bent outwards, then minutely dentate, erect, and with a blac
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 2G8 AECTIAD^. *561. Macaduma toxophora. (Plate XXV. fig. 26.) Psapharach toxophora, Turner, Trans. E. Soc. S. Austr. 1899, p. 15. 2 . Head and thorax greyish brown ; abdomen greyish fuscous. Fore wing greyish brown, irrorated with a few darker scales ; the costal area tinged with white; subbasal and medial small black spots on costa; a white discoidal spot; the postmedial line indis- tinct, arising from a black spot on costa below which it is strongly bent outwards, then minutely dentate, erect, and with a black mark on it towards inner margin; some black points on the excised part of costa and a dark mark on the terminal excision below apex. Hind wing fuscous. Hah. Queensland, Brisbane, type f $ in Coll. Turner. Exj). 20 milUm. Genus OCROSIA, nov. Type, 0. reversa. Proboscis fully developer]; palpi porrect, slender, reaching just beyond fi-ons; antenniB of male with bristles and cilia; tibiae with the spurs long. Fore wing rather narrow, the costa arched towards apex, the termen oblique ; vein 2 from long before angle of cell, oblique; 3 from near angle; 4, 5 on a long stalk ; 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, 7 given oif beyond 9 ; 11 from close to angle of cell, free. Hind wing with vein 2 from close to angle of cell; 3, 4 coincident; 5 from well above angle, curved ; 6, 7 coincident; 8 from middle of cell; male with an elliptical patch of white androeonia in cell on underside covered by the costal area of hind wing, which is reduced to a large lobe fringed with long hair, the apical part being truncate and veins 5, 6, 8 very short. 562. Ocrosia reversa. Lifhnsia reversa, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 105 (1862); Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. p. 105; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 325. (S. Uniform fulvous orange; antennae and fore tibiae and tarsi tinged with fuscous. 2 . Deeper orange ; abdomen fuscous, with the anal tuft orange; hind wing fuscous, with the termen and cilia yellow ; under- side o
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