HY A. .TEFFKRIS TURNKR. 311 



vein 4; colour as forewings but with a dark fuscous, pale-centred, 

 discal dot, and a nearly straight brown line frpm tornus to apex, 

 edged posteriorly with whitish. Underside similar but darker, 

 and with pale-centred discal dots on both wings. 



In this species, the two sexes are very similar. 



N.Q.: Kuranda, near Cairns: Evelyn Scrub, near Herberton; 

 Mackay. Also from Louisiades. 



Gen. 4. P h o b i t h i a . 



Probithia Warr., Nov. Zool., 1894, p. 440 



Frons flat. Tongue developed. Palpi moderate, porrect; 

 second joint thickened with appressed hairs above and beneath; 

 terminal joint moderately long, obtuse. Antennse of g serrate, 

 shortly ciliated. Thorax not crested, beneath slightly hairy. 

 Femora glabrous. Posterior tibiee of ^ dilated. Forewings of 

 ^ with a well-marked fovea; 10 and 11 long-stalked from cell, 

 their common stalk connected by a bar with 12, Hind wings 

 quadrate, angled on vein 4: cell rather short (|). Type, F. 

 exclusa Wlk. 



I have only one ^ to examine, and the neuration may vary. 

 A modification of the Boarmia-Htem with specialised hind wings, 

 it appears to be allied to the Australian genus Anisoyraphe. 



5. Probithia exclusa. 



IIemerophila{^.) exclusa Wlk., Cat. Brit. Mus., xxi., p. 320. //. 

 prcetereuiis Wlk., op. cit., xxi., p. 320. Acidalia imprinidta Wlk., 

 op. cit., xxiii., p. 771. Macaria ohstataria Wlk., op. cit., xxiii., 

 p. 928. Bithia lignarla Wlk., op. cit.., xxxv., p. 1600. Luxiaria 

 exclusa Hmps., Moths Ind., iii., p. 196. 



^. 42 mm. Head grey-whitish, with a transverse fuscous 

 band: face fuscous, lower edge ochreous. Palpi 1; fuscous, 

 basal joint and base and lower edge of second joint ochreous. 

 Antennai fuscous, towards base grey- whitish: in ^ with well- 

 marked serrations [h) towards apex, each with a short terminal 

 bristle. Thorax grey- whitish. Abdomen pale fuscous, basal 

 segments whitish. Legs pale ochreous; anterior pair dark fus 

 cous anteriorly. Forewings triangular, costa straight to near. 



