56 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



Gen. 7. P ii e r e s s a c e s, gen. no v. 

 [(pepea-aaKTjs, a shield-bearer.] 



Head with oppressed scales. Eyes naked. Tongue absent. 

 Palpi short, porrect. Antenna- with basal § pectinated in both 

 sexes, apical tliird simple. Posterior tibiie with two pairs of 

 spurs. Forewings with rectinaculum bar-shaped in ^ ; vein 2 

 from i, 3 from angle, 5 from above middle of cell, 10 from 8 + 9, 

 or from areole. Hindwings with 3 and 4 separate, G and 7 

 stalked, 8 approximated to end of cell. 



Type, P. cycnoptera, Low. 



10. Piieressaces cycnoptera. 

 [kvkvos a swan, Trrepov a wing.] 

 Sotodonta cycnojjfera, Low., Trans. R. 8oc. S.A. 1894, p. 78. 



$ 9 32-41 mm. Head, thorax, and antenna g^^ey. Palpi 

 clothed with long hairs beneath; dark fuscous, internal surface 

 whitish. Abdomen grey. Legs whitish-grey, tarsi annulated 

 with fuscous. Forewings elongate-oval, costa moderateh' arched, 

 apex round-pointed, termen rounded, ver}^ oblique; vein 10 from 

 8 + 9 beyond areole; grey irrorated with white; markings blackish: 

 a short outwardl}^ oblique line from costa near base, acutely 

 angulated beneath costa, and again nearer base; a whitish 

 basal suffusion bounded by a tine dentate line, sometimes 

 obsolete, from costa at j, forming a long narrow outward 

 loop beneath costa, and ending in dorsum at ^; a well marked 

 line from | costa, inwardly oblique, narrowing in disc, and 

 continued by short streaks on veins to dorsum beyond middle; 

 this is immediately followed by a whitish line; an obscure 

 dentate whitish subterminal line; an interrupted blackish ter- 

 minal line; cilia grey mixed with whitish. Hindwings with 

 termen rounded, slightly sigmoid towards tornus; white; a 

 fuscous blotch at apex continued as a l)and or line along 

 termen to tornus; cilia white. 



Type in Coll. Lower. 



