90 NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF LEPIDOPTERA, 



7. Hindwings with 4 and 5 short-stalked, 8 connected with cell 

 before middle. 



Sir George Hampson referred the type species to Gadirtha^ 

 Wlk., but the dense posterior thoracic crest seems a sufficient 

 distinction. 



OCHTHOPHORA SERICINA, n.sp. 



^. 40 mm. Head grey; lower I of face whitish. Palpi whitish; 

 posterior surface grey. Antennae grey. Thorax gre}-, mixed 

 with brownish; a fine transverse black line near base of crest. 

 Abdomen grey. Legs grey; posterior pair whitish. Forewings 

 oblong, costa strongly arched at base, thence straight to near 

 apex, apex rounded, termen slightly rounded, hardly oblique; 

 glossy grey; many wavy whitish-grey lines from costa becoming 

 lost in disc; three dark fuscous dots in a triangle close to base; a 

 small dark fuscous irroration at base of inner margin; a fine 

 strongly waved black line from costa at \ to inner margin at |^; 

 orbicular dark grey, slenderly outlined with whitish; reniform 

 small, dark grey; a fine acutely dentate black line from mid-costa, 

 obliquely outwards, describing a complete loop in disc, then 

 returning to form a second loop, which encloses reniform, and 

 ending in inner margin at j; a wavy whitish-grey sabterminal 

 line; a row of faintly darker terminal dots: cilia grey. Hind- 

 wings with termen rounded, indented on vein 5; white; a fuscous 

 terminal band from apex, narrowing and not quite reaching tornus 

 cilia grey, towards tornus white. 



Brisbane, Q.; one specimen in December. 



I c A s M A, n.g. 



Face flat, forehead with a projecting ridge of scales. Palpi; 

 long, rough-haired ; second joint somewhat ascending ; terminal 

 joint porrect or slightly descending, longer than second, obtuse. 

 Tongue present. Thorax with a small posterior crest. Abdomen 

 with a smooth patch of scales on first segment, representing a 

 dorsal crest. Posterior tibite with two pairs of spurs. Forewings 

 with veins 7, 8, 9 stalked; 10 connected b}^ a bar with 8, 9 beyond 



