. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. COM0CRU8. 545 Agarista flexuosa, Wlk. xxxi. 4G (1864); Kirbj, Cat. Ilet. p. 22. Agarisfa casuarmce, Scott, Austral. Lep. i. p. 24, pi. 8 (1855); McCoy, Prod. Zool. Vict. i. pi. 8. ff. 5-8. (contorta). Black ; palpi with 5^ellow and white markings; pale yellow streaks on sides of frons, vertex of head, tegular, patagia, and vertex of thorax; giilae and front of pectus pale yellow ; the hair on fore coxae, femora, and tibiae fulvous; the tibia3 and tarsi marked wi
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. COM0CRU8. 545 Agarista flexuosa, Wlk. xxxi. 4G (1864); Kirbj, Cat. Ilet. p. 22. Agarisfa casuarmce, Scott, Austral. Lep. i. p. 24, pi. 8 (1855); McCoy, Prod. Zool. Vict. i. pi. 8. ff. 5-8. (contorta). Black ; palpi with 5^ellow and white markings; pale yellow streaks on sides of frons, vertex of head, tegular, patagia, and vertex of thorax; giilae and front of pectus pale yellow ; the hair on fore coxae, femora, and tibiae fulvous; the tibia3 and tarsi marked with white; abdomen with the terminal segment and ventral bands on the two subterminal segments orange-fulvous. Fore wing with oblique pale yellow subbasal band from costa to vein 1; a somewhat sinuous and oblique antemedial band ; a bar from below middle of costa extending across the cell, with another from below its extremity to submedial fold; an oblique bar just beyond the cell from below costa to vein 4 ; the postmedial band oblique from costa to vein 4, then strongly incurved, strongly angled outwards in submedian fold, then retracted to below the bar below. Fig. 240.—Comocrus behri, (^. end of cell ; a series of white streaks on the veins beyond it not reaching termen ; cilia chequered black and white, wholly white towards apex and tornus. Hind wing slightly shot with blue ; traces of j-ellow spots in and below middle of cell; a large discoidal spot; a postmedial maculate band oblique from costa to above vein 4, then incurved and again oblique to above tornus ; cilia chequered black and white, wholly white towards apex; underside with yellow streak below basal half of costa ; the spots in and below cell prominent and a spot above upper angle. Ab. 1. heliri. Hind wing with the postmedial band reduced to spots. Ab. 2. flexuosa. Hind wing without discoidal spot or postmedial band. Hah. CiuEENSLAND, Morcton Bay (Diggles), 1 2 type flexuosa; N. S. Wales, Sydney {Darnel, Stu
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