in Bundaberg. It was smooth, tubby, and green with yellow between the segments. The caterpillar grew to a length of about 3 cms.

(Specimen: courtesy of the The Australian Museum)

The wings of the adults are half brown and half yellow. The moths have a striking black prothorax. The moths have a wingspan of about 5 cms.

(Photo: Don Herbison-Evans, Concord, New South Wales)

It is an inhabitant of rain-forests on the north-east coast of Australia, including

female, drawing by Achille Guenée, Lépidoptères - Noctuelles,
in Boisduval & Guenée : Histoire naturelle des insectes; spécies général des lépidoptères,
Atlas (Noctuelites), Plate 22, fig. 1,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

Further reading :

Ian F.B. Common,
Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 45.11, p. 451.:

Achille Guenée,
Ophiusidae,
in Boisduval & Guenée:
Histoire naturelle des insectes; spécies général des lépidoptères,
Volume 9, Part 7 (1852), p. 234, No. 1644, and also Plate 22, fig. 1.

Thomas P. Lucas,
On 34 new species of Australian Lepidoptera, with additional localities,
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland,
Volume 8 (1892), pp. 89-90.

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