132 NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF LEPIDOPTERA, 



1. Fore and hindwitigs white 2. 



Fore and hindwings grey 3. 



2. Abdomen with a reddish-brown band; face white calliscia 



Abdomen without a reddish-brown band; face fuscous epiphracta 



3. Forewings with ochreous markings on costa. hindwings 



moderately broad lyleurotypa 



Forewings without ochreous markings on costa, hindwings 



narrow canescem 



THELXINOA EPIPHRACTA, 11. sp. 



(J. 11-1 J: mm. Head and thorax white; face fuscous. Palpi 

 dark fuscous; internal surface of second joint whitish. Antennae 

 whitish-grey, towards base white. Abdomen whitish, towards 

 apex irrorated with dark fuscous; a pale ochreous spot on each 

 side of first segment. Legs whitish; anterior pair dark fuscous 

 on dorsal sui-face. Forewings narrow elongate-triangular, costa 

 gently arched, apex rounded, termen ronnded, oblique; white, 

 markings dark fuscous and ochreous-fuscons; a dot on costa near 

 base and another at i, from which ochreous-fuscous lines proceed 

 to dorsum near base and at 4; a dot on costa before middle 

 separated b}^ an ochreous spot from a large dark fuscous spot in 

 disc, containing an incomplete whitish circle: a slightly waved 

 interrupted line from 'i costa forming an oblong projection in 

 disc, and bent inwards to dorsum at |; between bend and tornus 

 is a fuscous suffusion; a faintly marked acutely dentate line from 

 costa at 4 to tornus; a subapical fuscous suffusion; a broad dark 

 fuscous terminal line interrupted by ochreous on veins: cilia 

 whitish, mixed with fuscous. Hindwings with termen slightly 

 rounded; white: a few fuscous scales near base; a conspicuous 

 dark fuscous dot in disc at 4; connected by a suffused line with 

 inner margin; wav}^ fuscous posterior and subterminal lines; 

 subapical blotch, terminal line, and cilia as forewings. 



Brisbane, Q.; four specimens. 



The species of this and the following genus have the habit of 

 resting with the wings widely outspread on tree-trunks and fences, 

 resembling small species of Geometridje. 



