BY A. JEFFERIS TURNER. 387 



lustre, Antennre blackish. Thorax ochreous-brown, loose-haired. 

 Abdomen peacock-blue, with metallic lusti-e; beneath blackish; 

 tuft ochreous-brown Legs blackish: femora and tibi?e with 

 peacock-blue lustre. Forewings elotjgate-triangular, costa straight 

 to near apex, apex rounded, termen nearly straight, oblique; 10 

 and 11 coincident, free (4(J, 2^); black; base, except costal edge, 

 ochreous-brown, a broad, red streak from base to torn us, gradu- 

 ally attenuated, indented before tornus; an orange fascia from 

 midcosta to tornus, where it blends with dorsal streak; cilia 

 black. Hind wings with termen rounded; an orange spot on 

 tornal side of middle of disc; a few orange scales near tornus: 

 an orange, terminal line indented or interrupted on veins; cilia 

 orange. Underside similar, but without dorsal, red streak on 

 forewings, and with a short, subcostal, peacock-blue streak on 

 each wing from base. 



N.Q.: Cooktown, Cairns, Tnnisfail. 



Gen. 35. A p ii o s i t a, n.g. 

 divpoa-LTOs, unapproachable. 



Face smooth. Tongue well-developed. Palpi rather short 

 and stout, porrect, rough-scaled, not hairy. Antennte of ^ uni- 

 pectinate(?), of ^ simple. Thorax hairy beneath. Femora 

 glabrous. Forewings with 10 and 11 coincident and free. 



Probably allied to Fjndesma. Mr. Lower describes the an- 

 tennae of the 9 as unipectinate. This is certainly not so, and 

 probably his specimen was a ^. Unfortunately I have not seen 

 that sex. 



125. Aprosita macrocosma. 



Satraparchisi^i) macrocosma Low., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 

 1899, p.85. 



Vic: Gisborne, in February; one 9 specimen found dead, im- 

 paled on a thistle-prickle (Lyell). 



Gen. 36. Lychnographa, n.g. 

 Xv\i'oypa<fio^, brilliantly marked. 

 Head smooth, rounded, not projecting. Tongue well-devel- 

 oped. Palpi short, porrect or subascending; second joint with 

 rough hairs beneath ; terminal joint short Antenna? of ^ 



