I 



I3Y A. J. TURNER. 57 



N.Q. Towiisville, in February — Q. Duaringa. 



Mr. F. P. Dodd has bred the larvae which are pale green, 

 smooth, cyUnch'ical, with two tails nearly an inch long, each 

 containing a protriisible filament. 



11. PlIERESSACES SPIRUCHA, n.Sp. 



\_(T7reLpovxos, containing a circle.] 



^ 38 mm. Head and thorax grey. Palpi clothed with short 

 appressed hairs ; dark fuscous. Antennae ochreous-whitish. 

 Abdomen grey. Legs grey. Forewings elongate, costa slightly 

 arched, apex round-pointed, termen rounded, very oblique; vein 

 10 from areole; grey, towards costa irrorated by dark fuscous; 

 veins nai'rowly blackish; a slightly waved transverse blackish 

 line near base; a second similar line from -> costa to mid-dorsum, 

 connected on costa with an outwardly curved line to dorsum 

 near tornus, the two forming an incomplete circle; cilia grey. 

 Hind wings with termen rounded; whitish, on costa suffused 

 with fuscous, cilia white. 



This species differs slightly in the scaling of the palpi and 

 neuration from the preceding, and the posterior legs ai-e broken, 

 so its generic position is not quite assured. 



Type in Coll. Agricultural Department, Queensland. 



Q. Brisbane; one specimen. 



Gen. 8. CE no s a n d a. 



(Enosdrula, Wlk., Brit. Mus. Cat. vii. p. 1713. 



Head shortly rough-haired; face with a rounded honi}^ promi- 

 nence, naked in the centre. Eyes naked. Tongue obsolete. 

 Palpi very short, clothed with long hairs beneath; terminal joint 

 obsolete. Antennae in ^ bipectinated to apex, in ^ simple. 

 Abdomen in 9 with a dense hairy tuft at apex. Posterior tibiae 

 with two pairs of spurs. Forewings with vein 2 from J, 3 from 

 angle, 5 from middle of cell, G from about or beyond middle of 

 areole, 7 from areole or from 8 -f 9 shortly beyond areole, 10 from 

 areole. Hindwings with 3 and 4 connate or stalked, 5 obsolete, 



