BY A. J. TURNER. ^3 



with termen rounded; grey; towards base and inner mar<^in 

 ochreous; cilia grey, on inner margin ochreous. 



Type in Coll. Agricultural Department, Queensland. 



N.Q. Townsville, in January and February; two specimens 

 received from Mr. F. P. Dodd. Also from Thursday Island. 



The palpi are rather longer than in P. polioxutha, and the 

 second joint with shorter hairs. 



18. Pheraspis spodea, n.sp. 

 [a-TToSos ashes; ash-coloured.] 



9. 50 mm. Head white; face white with a transverse brown 

 line near upper edge. Palpi white, external surface brown. 

 Antennae brown; in 9 simple. Thorax with a small posterior 

 crest ; whitish, with a brown transverse line across collar. 

 Abdomen whitish, dorsum of basal segments suffused with 

 brownish. Legs whitish; anterior pair brown anteriorly. Fore- 

 . wings elongate-oval, costa moderately arched, apex rounded, 

 termen rounded, oblique; whitish sparse^ irrorated with grey; 

 lines grey, suffused; first from costa at J obliquely outwards, an- 

 gulated inward near costa, to dorsum at ^; second from costa at 

 |-, first outwardly curved then slightly sigmoid to dorsum at |; 

 an indistinct subterminal line, edged posteriorly with white, 

 angulated three- times in disc; cilia grey, interrupted with whitish 

 on veins; apices whitish. Hindwings with termen rounded; grey, 

 at apex and tornus whitish; cilia whitish-grey. 



Type in Coll. Turner. 



Q, Brisbane, in January; one perfect specimen taken at light. 



Gen. 12. Themerastis, gen.nov. 



[defiepos grave, serious.] 



Head shortly rough-haired; face rounded, somewhat projecting. 

 Eyes smooth, partly overlapped by a tuft of long hairs from pos- 

 terior inferior quadrant. Tongue well developed. Anteniuv 

 in ^ bipectinated to apex. Palpi very short, porrect; terminal 

 joint minute. Thorax with a slight posterior crest. Posterior 



