386 REVISION OF AUSTHALIAN LEPlDOPTEKA, VI.. 



on tornal half yellow. Underside similar, but with subtermiiial 

 line not developed on forewinj:; hind wings with a broad costal 

 streak terminating in a large apical blotch, 



Very similar to P. mariana in colouration, but much smaller. 



N.Q.: Cape York, in March; one specimen, in Coll. Lyell; 

 taken by the late Mr. Elgner. 



123. Pr.esos leucosticta. 



Craspedosls leucosticta Warr., Nov. ZooL, 1896, p. 398. 



(J^. 43-52 mm. Head and palpi grey. Antenna^ fuscous; 

 ciliations in (J 1. Thorax grey. Abdomen yelloAV-ochreous, 

 basal \ groy. Legs grey. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa 

 straight to near apex, apex rounded, termen longer than dorsum, 

 bowed, strongly oblique; 10 and 11 coincident, connected bv a 

 short bar with 9 (3(J, 49): grey; a transverse, white mark, its 

 edges sujftused from mid-costa across end of cell; a grey whitish, 

 rather broad line from tornus towards | costa, but lost in disc; 

 cilia grey. Hind wings rather long, termen strongly rounded; 

 grey; a broad, white, median band, its anterior edge straight, 

 posterior edge with a strong, rounded, median projection; a 

 narrow, grey- whitish fascia beyond and parallel to this; cilia 

 irrev. Underside similar. 



N.Q.: Cooktown, Cairns, Herberton. 



Gen. 34. E p i d e s m a. 



Epidesvia Hb., Verz., p.l76. J/i^io/urt Wlk., Cat. Brit. Mus., 

 ii., p.364; Hmps., Moths Ind., iii., p.312. 



Head and face smooth-scaled. Tongue well-developed, l^alpi 

 moderate, porrect; basal joint \\ithlong, spreading hairs beneath: 

 second and terminal joints smooth-scaled. Thorax hairy beneath. 

 Femora glabrous. Posterior tibiae of ^ dilated. Forewings in 

 ^ with a small fovea; 10 absent (coincident with 11), 11 free. 

 Hind wings normal. 



I refer this also to the Abraxas-group. The genus is Tndo- 

 Malayan. 



124. Epidksma queenslandica. 



Milionia queenslandica Hoths., Nov. Zool, 1895, p. 4 64. 



(to. 57-65 mm. Head and palpi peacock-blue, with metallic 



