Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia Part 25

The larva of this species forms a dwelling for itself, similar in form and structure to that of its American congener, the EPHEMERAEFORMIS, Steph.

CALLIMORPHA SELENAEA, pl. 5. f. 2.

Wings of a brilliant silvery white; the anterior traversed by a fulvous band commencing at the base on the costa, which it follows for about one-third of its length, then crossing the wings directly to the a.n.a.l angle, where it unites with a vitta of the same colour, extending from the angle nearly to the base along the inner margin; this vitta is bordered interiorly with thickly placed black dots; the transverse portion of the fulvous band is bordered on both sides with black, and has a sinus about the middle; cilia fulvous; posterior wing with a black spot near the outer angle: below, the wings are white, except the cilia of the anterior, and a large blotch, red anteriorly, black posteriorly, near the outer angle; head rufous; antennae fuscous; thorax and abdomen white, the former with the shoulders rufous.

Exp. 2 1/2 inches.

CHELONIA PALLIDA, pl. 5. f. 3.

Anterior wings pale brown, with white nervures and nervules, and marked with several whitish spots, of which four are on the costa, two longitudinal before, two transverse beyond the middle of the wing, and on the inner margin are three irregular patches, sometimes confluent, beyond which is a band parallel with the outer margin, commencing above the upper median nervule, and terminating on the inner margin; posterior wings white, with a discoidal spot, a macular band near the outer margin, and a less distinct marginal one, all brownish; head white; thorax white, with three black vittae; abdomen above rufous, with six transverse black spots, the sides varied with black and white; antennae black; femora red; tibiae and tarsi black.

Exp. 2 1/4 inches.

CHELONIA FUSCINULA, pl. 5. f. 4.

Anterior wings fuscous, with a pale vitta commencing near the base on the subcostal nervure, reaching the costa before the middle, and extending along it to the apex, where it joins a flexuous submarginal band, connected with a vitta occupying the whole inner margin; beyond the cell is an abbreviated flexuous striga; followed by a subquadrate dot; posterior wings pale dull red, with a broad submarginal fuscous band, and a discoidal spot of the same colour; head and anterior part of thorax pale, posterior black; abdomen above red, with a black dorsal line; antennae fuscous; femora red; tibiae and tarsi fuscous.

Exp. 1 1/4 inch.

ACONTIA? PULCHRA, pl. 5. f. 5.

Wings of a somewhat chalky white, the anterior with three rufous dots on the costa before the middle, of which the third is the largest, and near the apex a large brown spot, fulvous towards the costa, clouded with bluish white, connected with the inner margin by four indistinct yellow dots; forehead red; head, thorax, and abdomen, white; palpi red at the apex; feet white first and second pairs spotted with red.

Exp. 2 inches.

LIST OF BIRDS, KNOWN TO INHABIT SOUTHERN AUSTRALIA, BY JOHN GOULD, ESQ. F.R.S.

ORDER RAPTORES.

Aquila fucosa, CUV.

Ichthyiaetus leucogaster, GOULD.

Pandion leucocephalus, GOULD.

Haliastur sphenurus.

Falco melanogenys, GOULD.

----- sub-niger, G. R. GRAY.

----- frontatus, GOULD.

Ieracidea Occidentalis, GOULD.

--------- Berigora.

Tinnunculus Cencroides.

Astur approximans, VIG. and HORSF.

----- Novae-Hollandiae, VIG. and HORSF.?

Accipiter torquatus, VIG. and HORSF.

Buteo melanosternon, GOULD.

Milvus isurus, GOULD.

------ affinis, GOULD.

Ela.n.u.s axillaris.

------ scripta, GOULD.

Circus a.s.similis, JARD.

------ Jardinii, GOULD.

Strix personata, VIG.

----- delicatulis, GOULD.

Athene connivens.

------ b.o.o.book

ORDER INSESSORES.

Hirundo neoxena, GOULD.

Cotyle pyrrhonota.

Acanthylis caudacuta.

Eurostopodus guttatus.

Podargus humeralis, VIG. and HORSF.

Aegotheles Novae-Hollandiae, VIG. and HORSF.?

Merops ornatus, LATH.

Dacelo gigas, BODD.

Halcyon sanctus, VIG. and HORSF.

------- pyrrhopygia, GOULD.

Alcyone azurea.

Falcunculus frontatus, VIG. and HORSF.

Oreoica gutturalis.

Xerophila leucopsis, GOULD.

Colluricincla cinerea, VIG. and HORSF.?

Pachycephala gutturalis, VIG. and HORSF.

------------ inornata, GOULD.?

------------ pectoralis, VIG. and HORSF.

------------ rufogularis, GOULD.

Artamus sordidus.

------- personatus, GOULD.

Cracticus destructor, TEMM.

Gymnorhina leuconota, GOULD.

Grallina melanoleuca, VIEILL.

Strepera ----------?

Campephaga humeralis, GOULD.?

Graucalus melanops, VIG. and HORSF.

Cinclosoma punctatum, VIG. and HORSF.

---------- castanotus, GOULD.

Malurus cyaneus, VIEILL.

------- melanotus, GOULD.

------- leucopterus, QUOY AND GAIM.

------- Lamberti, VIG. and HORSF.