BY ESBEK-PETERSKN. 213 



I place the species provisioually in C onchylosmylus Kriiger 

 (8tett. ent. Zeit., p.'20, 1914), although 1 can see that the species 

 is not totally covered by the generic characters: but it seems to 

 nie that it is better placed in this genus than in Spilosmylus 

 (restr. by Kriiger). 



BEROTHID^.. 

 Berotha neuropunctata, n.sp. (Plate xiii., fig. 9). 

 Head reddish-yellow; palpi darker; vertex with small brown- 

 ish-red dots. Antenn{^3 brownish-yellow, basal joints yellowish, 

 stout, long, cylindrical, almost as long as second, third, and 

 fourth joints united. Prothorax once and one-half as broad as 

 long, with rounded front angles, with many small reddish-brown 

 dots, and a larger oblong dark streak parallel and near to 

 the lateral margins; a median line along prothorax and vertex 

 clear yellowish. Meso- and metathorax yellowish, with greyish- 

 brown spots. Sides of thorax greyish-brown, with yellowish 

 streaks and spots. Abdomen [shrivelled and destroyed] yellow- 

 ish C?). Thorax and abdomen with long, dark bristles. Male 

 appendages of the same shape, and held in the same position as 

 in the other species of the genus. Legs yellowish, with brown 

 bands and spots. Forewings with a yellowish tinge, hindwings 

 almost hyaline. In the forewings, all the longitudinal nervures 

 are yellowish, brownish-spotted, the cross-veins brownish-black 

 and shaded. In the hindwing, the longitudinal nervures are 

 yellowish, but the apical part of the branches from Rs are 

 brownish. The cross-veins (only few in number) in the disc, 

 and all the cross-veins in the pterostigmatic area brownish. 

 Cross-veins in the costal area of forewiug forked, and with two 

 or three branches. 



Brewarrina, N.S.W.; one male specimen, 1914(W.\V. Froggatt 

 leg.); Coll. Froggatt. 



Besides this species, one more is known from Australia, viz., 

 B. rufa Navas, from Queensland. The two species may be 

 separated thus : — 



Nervures without dark spots. Hind-margin of forewings strongly ex- 

 cavate at apex. Radial area in forewings with four cross-veins. 

 Forewing, 18 nnn. ; hindw int;. llnnii '■'{/<^<- 



