BY E. MEYRICK. 295 



spots with silvery iridescence along termen, uppermost and 

 two lowest preceded by blackish dots : cilia pale grey, outer 

 half spotted with whitish, at apex marked with ferruginous, 

 riindwings light greyish-fulvous, apex tinged with whitish ; 

 cilia pale fulvous, outer half spotted with whitish. 

 Q. : Brisbane (Turner) ; in November, two specimens. 



440. T. climacias, n.sp. 

 cf. 17 mm. Head and thorax fuscous, apical half of 

 patagia white. Palpi white. Forewings elongate, moderate, 

 posteriorly rather dilated, costa anteriorly almost straight, 

 towards apex rather abruptly arched, apex obtuse, termen 

 obliquely rounded, slightly sinuate just beneath apex ; silvery- 

 white ; costa with short oblique dark fuscovis strigulae, on pos- 

 terior half with alternate interspaces tinged with fulvous ; an 

 irregular narrow grey patch suffusedly marked with deep fer- 

 ruginous extending over base and along dorsum to tornus ; a 

 suffused blackish dot in disc above middle ; a moderately 

 broad irregular silvery-grey fascia near termen, indistinctly 

 spotted with blackish suffusion ; a deep ferruginous-orange 

 s])ot along apical portion of costa, cut by a white strigula, and 

 limited beneath by a white longitudinal mark edged beneath 

 with yellowish suffusion ; four slivery-grey roundish spots 

 along termen : cilia white, with grey basal line and slightlv 

 tinged with grey towards tips, at apex marked with ferrugi- 

 nous. Hindwings grey ; cilia white, with grey basal line, 

 towards tornus elongated. 



Q. : Cooktown (Meek) ; one specimen. 



441. Laspeyresia hemicosma Low. 

 {Le/ptarthid Iir/niros/tia Low., Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr. 

 1908, 321.) 



Having obtained further material, I find that this is really 

 a distinct species, though very similar to L. mediann. It 

 differs from that species in having the posterior tibiae of cf 

 rather short, whitish, with expansible whitish hairpencil from 



