BY A. J. TURNKIl. Gl 



15. Df:stolmia nigrolinea. 



Notodonta nufrolinea, Luc, Trans. Nat. Hist. 8oc. Qsld. 1894^ 

 p. 107. 



9 50 mm. Head, thorax, and palpi grey, finely irrorated with 

 white. Antenn?e ochreous-grey. Abdomen grey, apical segments 

 finely irrorated with whitish. Legs grey, tarsi dark fuscous, 

 irrorated with whitish. Forewings elongate, costa nearly straight 

 except near base and apex, termen bowed; grey finely irrorated 

 with whitish-grey; veins finely outlined with blackish; with three 

 blackish transverse lines; first from i costa to J dorsum, nearly 

 straight; second from f costa to |- dorsum, slightly sigmoid, third 

 from I costa to before tornus, slightly outwardly curved near 

 costa; a dark fuscous linear mark in disc above middle between 

 second and third lines; a dark grey subterminal suffusion, pos- 

 teriorly finely dentate, from costa two-thirds across disc ; cilia 

 grey. Hindw^ings with termen rounded; whitish, thickly covered 

 with grey hairs, especially towards inner margin; cilia dark gre}^ 

 apices white. 



Type in Coll. Lucas. 



Q. Brisbane, in February; one specimen taken at light. 



Gen. 11. Pheraspis, gen.nov. 

 [^e/jaoTTTis-, a shield bearer.] 



Head rough-haired. Eyes naked. Tongue weak or absent. 

 Palpi short, or moderate, porrect or slightly ascending; terminal 

 joint short. Antennne in $ pectinated to apex, in ^ shortly 

 pectinated or simple. Thorax with a slight posterior crest. 

 Posterior tibiae with two pairs of spurs. Forewings with 2 from 

 4, 3 from angle; G from areole before or near middle, 7 from 8 -f 9 

 beyond areole, 10 from areole. Hind wings with 3 and 4 separate 

 or connate, 6 and 7 stalked, 8 approximated to cell. 



Type, P. ijolioxiitha^ Turn. 



1. Hinclwings tawny 2. 



Hindwings not tawny xpodea. 



2. Forewings with a longitudinal blackish streak from base mesotypa. 



Forewings without median streak poUoxutha, 



