BY A. J. TURNER. 667 



Gen. 5. D a s y b e l a,* nov. 



Face smooth. Palpi moderate, subascending, clothed anteriorly 

 with long, stiff, diverging hairs. Antenme in ^ serrate, with 

 fascicles of moderately long cilia. Thorax and cox£e hairy 

 beneath. Posterior tibiae in ^ without middle spurs; [in 9 

 unknown]. Forewings with 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, 11 anastomosing 

 very shortly with their common stalk. Hindwings with 5 from 

 above middle of discocellulars, strongly approximated to 6, 6 and 

 and 7 separate. 



Probably a development of Pi/large, from which it differs in 

 the long rough hairs on palpi and underside of thorax. The 

 approximation of vein 5 of hindwings to vein 6 at base is quite 

 as strong as in the Geometrince, but the natural affinities of the 

 genus place it in this neighbourhood. 



57. Dasybela achroa. 

 Eminiltis achroa Low,, Trans. Roy. Soc. S.Aust. 1902, p. 229. 



(J. 18-19 mm. Head and palpi whitish-ochreous with some 

 dark fuscous scales; palpi 1|. Antennae whitish-ochreous; in (J 

 strongly serrate (§) with fascicles of long cilia (1 J). Thorax and 

 abdomen blackish with whitish-ochreous irroration. Legs 

 whitish-ochreous; femora and anterior tibiae mixed with dark 

 fuscous. Forewings rather elongate-triangular, costa straight, 

 abruptl}^ curved near apex, apex rounded, termen bowed, oblique; 

 brown-whitish with dark fuscous markings and irroration; a 

 twice angulated antemedian line from \ costa to ]^ dorsum; a 

 median line, somewhat dentate, thickened on costa; followed 

 towards costa by a discal dot; a finely dentate postmedian line 

 from I costa to 4 dorsum, thickened on costa; a dark subterminal 

 suffusion; a series of black terminal dots separated by ochreous- 

 whitish; cilia ochreous-whitish. Hindwings with termen strongly 

 rounded; colour and markings as forewings but without basal 

 line. 



* da<xv^r]Xos, with hairy weapons (palpi). 



