602 RKVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LKPIDOPTKRA, V., 



a ferruginous erect streak from ^ dorsum to mid-disc; a minute 

 discal dot, dark fuscous with some ferruginous scales; a very 

 large tornal and terminal blotch with lobed outline, from | dorsum 

 to near costa, then narrowing and ending just below apex, purple- 

 whitish, suffused partly with ferruginous, strigulated with fuscous, 

 and edged with ferruginous-fuscous; a dark fuscous terminal line; 

 cilia ochreous-wliitish, with a faint purplish median line. Hind- 

 wings with termen dentate on veins 4 and 6; 3 and 4 short- 

 stalked, 8 approximated to cell for a short distance near base; 

 discocellulars nearly straight, oblique; as forewings, but with a 

 large apical and smaller tornal blotch connected witli a straight- 

 edged bridge; the latter prolonged along dorsum nearly to base 

 as a narrow streak. Underside whitish-green; a large dark 

 fuscous blotch on forewings from tornus nearly to costa; a smaller 

 subapical blotch on hindwings. Type in Coll. Lyell. 



N.Q.: Kuranda; in April; one specimen, received from Mr. F. 

 P. Dodd. 



Gen. 18. Diplodesma. 



Diplodesma Warr., Nov. Zool. 1896, p.289. 



Face smooth. Tongue well developed. Palpi moderate in ^, 

 rather long in 5; second joint rough-scaled beneath; terminal 

 joint in $ abbreviated. Antennae in ^ ciliated, in ^ simple. 

 Thorax and abdomen not crested; thorax slightly hairy beneath. 

 Posterior tibise in ^ dilated, middle spurs absent; in ^ with all 

 spurs present Hindwings with a strong costal expansion at 

 base; frenulum in $ present l)ut slender, retinaculum near base 

 of forewing; frenulum in 5 obsolete. Forewings with 3 and 4 

 short-stalked or connate, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 stalked, 10 and 11 short 

 and running into 12. Hindwings with 3 and 4 stalked, 6 and 7 

 stalked, 8 touching cell at a point near base, then rapidly tliverging; 

 discocellulars nearly straight, moderately oblique. 



A derivative of Hemithea, from which it differs in veins 10 and 

 11 of forewing arising out of 9 and running into 12, a character 

 which I have not found elsewhere in this group. Type, Thalera 

 celataria Wlk. 



