Australia and the South Pacific. 'I'll 



Semioceros parapsephis, n. s. 



H $ , 12 — 14 mm. Head and thorax whitish-ochreous, with a 

 few fuscous scales. Palpi white, terminal joint and apex of second 

 dark fuscous. Antennae pale greyish-ochreous, in male shortly 

 ciliated (£), bent before middle, tuft small, fuscous. Abdomen 

 light ochreous irrorated with fuscous, segmental margins white. 

 Legs pale greyish-ochreous, apex of joints white. Fore wings 

 elongate-triangular, costa posteriorly moderately arched, apex 

 obtuse, hind margin rather strongly oblique, somewhat bowed ; 

 whitish-ochreous. suffusedly irrorated with rather dark fuscous, 

 except generally towards costa and inner margin : an obscure 

 whitish subbasal spot on inner margin ; first line blackish-fuscous, 

 rather irregular, from one-fifth of costa to one-third of inner 

 margin, forming a small spot on inner margin, and preceded on 

 lower half by a white suffusion ; orbicular and claviform apparently 

 subquadrate and confluent, indicated only by cloudy dark fuscous 

 lateral margins; reniform similar; a white dot connecting 

 orbicular with first line ; a narrow transverse white spot connecting 

 orbicular and reniform, and a larger quadrate white spot immedi- 

 ately below this touching secoud line ; a white subquadrate spot 

 connecting reniform with second line ; second line blackish-fuscous, 

 rather irregular, from three-fourths of costa to near anal angle, 

 thence abruptly bent inwards to beneath reniform, and again 

 abruptly bent to inner margin at two-thirds, posteriorly narrowly 

 and suffusedly margined with white, forming a white spot touching 

 hind margin above anal angle ; a blackish-fuscous hind-marginal 

 line; cilia whitish, with a submoniliform dark fuscous line tending 

 to form bars, terminal half light grey, with a white bar above anal 

 angle. Hind wings with colour, discal (reniform) spot, and all 

 posterior markings as in fore wings. 



Duaringa, Queensland; six specimens sent by Mr. G. 

 Barnard. Nearty allied to S. murcalis, but much 

 smaller and more neatly marked ; best distinguished by 

 the presence of the quadrate white spot below middle of 

 disc of fore wings. 



Ceratoclasis, Ld. 



Forehead rounded, vertical. Ocelli present. Tongue well- 

 developed. Antenna; three-fourths, in male strongly ciliated ( 1 .' ), 

 bent in middle, bend thickened, rough-scaled above, and with 

 some larger roughly tufted scales beneath. Labial palpi moderate. 

 curved, ascending, secon<l joint with short rough projecting scales 



