BY A. J. TURNER. 6G3 



I heave examined Walker's types in the British Museum, and 

 have no doubt as to their identity with Meyrick's species. 



N.Q.: Thursday Island,To\vnsville — Q.: Duaringa,Peak Downs, 

 Gympie, Brisbane, Rosewood, Toowoomba, Dalby, Miles, Cunna- 

 raulla — N. S.W.: Tenterfield, Sydney. Also from New Guinea. 



48. Leptomeris thysanopus,*' n.sp. 



<J9. 17 mm. Head fuscous-whitish, fillet whitish; face blackish. 

 Palpi whitish; upper surface and apex blackish. Antennae 

 whitish with some dark fuscous scales; apical portion in X 

 greyish; in (J simple, ciliations 1. Thorax and abdomen ochreous- 

 whitish; the latter with one or two blackish scales. Legs whitish; 

 anterior pair fuscous; posterior tibife of ^ elongate and somewhat 

 dilated, especially near base, smooth-scaled, with two long pro- 

 cesses from apex of knee, each expanding half-way into a tuft 

 of long hairs; posterior tarsi of ^ 4. Fore wings with cost a 

 moderately arched near apex, apex rounded; termen slightly 

 rounded, oblique; ochreous-whitish, with a .very few scattered 

 blackish scales; lines very faint ochreous; antemedian straight, 

 from beneath costa at J to dorsum at |^; a minute black discal 

 dot well before median; median nearly straight from costa at -r- 

 to middle of dorsum; posterior straight, dentate, from costa at 4 

 to dorsum at |; subterminal and submarginal wavy; a series of 

 terminal black dots; cilia whitish-ochreous. Hindwings with 

 termen rounded; 6 and 7 connate; colour and markings as fore- 

 wings, but basal line absent, and discal dot on or just posterior 

 to median. 



Characterised by the remarkable tassellated appendages to the 

 posterior tibiae of the male, also by the short antennal ciliations 

 and absence of blackish scales from cilia. 



Type in Coll. Turner. 



N.Q.: Cardwell and Townsville; four specimens (one g, three 

 ^) in August and September. 



* dvaavoTTovs, tassel-footed, 



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