NOVITATES ZOOLOOICAE XXl. 1914. 46? 



Genus Parerastria gen. nov. 



Tongue well developed ; frons smooth ; palpi upturned, the second segment 

 moderately scaled, the third short, smooth ; antennae of <S serrate, pubescent ; 

 the basal segment enlarged, with a slight tuft; head and thorax roughly scaled ; 

 metathorax slightly crested ; dorsum smooth ; forewing elongate-triangular ; the 

 costa protuberant beyond middle ; apex blunt ; terraeu excised shallowly from 

 7 to 4, which is somewhat prominent, then oblique ; the tornns with a strong tooth 

 of scales ; inner margin sinuate, incurved before the scale-tooth ; forewing with 

 veins 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10 and 11 free from cell ; 5 from just above 4 in both wings; 

 in hiudwing 3, 4 and 6, 7 from angles of cell. Type : P. caitoneata spec. nov. 



17. Parerastria castaneata spec. nov. 



Forewing : chestnut brown ; the costa at base and the terminal area narrowly 

 white ; inner line dark, oblique and straight from costa to submedian fold, then 

 inwardly oblique to near base of inner margin; the costa spotted with brown 

 before the protuberance ; orbicular stigma a small annulus with brown outline ; 

 reniform large, somewhat oblique, with dark outline and brown centre ; outer 

 line oblique outwards to vein 7, then slightly lunulate-dentate, vertical to 4, 

 incurved to submedian fold, and again outcnrved ; followed by another dark line, 

 and a brown band of which the outer edge is irregularly crenulate ; termen 

 white, excejjt at apex ; a terminal line of dark grey lunnles ; fringe pale grey ; 

 the tooth of scales whitish with two black marks. 



Hindwing : whitish at base, becoming grey towards termen beyond a dark 

 curved onter line. 



Underside of forewing whitish, stained with rnfous grey, except along termen 

 and the inner margin, which is glossy ; hindwing white with curved rufous outer 

 line and some costal speckling. 



Head and thorax brown ; the tegulae and patagia mixed with paler and some 

 dark scales ; abdomen grey, the anal tufts whitish. 



Expanse of wings : 28 mm. 



1 S from Mackay, Queensland. 



Resembles somewhat at first sight a small pale L. camelina. 



Subfamily EUTELIANAE. 



18. Bombotelia nigriplaga spec nov. 



Foreiinng : grey, with some dull rufous suffusion ; the whole basal area, a 

 costal triangle at middle, and a funnel-shaped praeapical mark black ; vein 3 

 ochreous ; inner line white with a dark line at centre, oblique from costa to 

 median vein, then inbeut and black ; reniform stigma lunate, black edged finely 

 with white, strongly constricted at middle, contiguous to the median costal 

 triangle ; median and outer lines fine, parallel to each other, oblique outwards 

 and straight to vein 0, there angled and incurved, becoming deutate-lunulate 

 below vein 3, above it tilled up with black ; the terminal half of wing below 3 

 and the space above it between reniform and median line lufous tinged : sub- 

 terminal line marked with white to vein 0, and again below 3, obsolete between ; 

 a row of black terminal lunnles ; a slight pale ochreous streak along cell-fold to 

 median line ; fringe dark grey. 



