BY A. JEFFERIS TURNER. 79, 



LOPHOCNEMA EUSPHYRA 11. Sj). 



EVGq)VQO^, with beautiful ankles. 



$ $ 15-20 mm. Head blackish ; lower part of face 

 orange. Palpi ochreous- whitish. Antennae ochreous- 

 fuscous ; ciJiations in $ \l. Thorax blackish with a 

 posterior pair of orange spots. Abdomen blackish ; an 

 ochreous whitish spot on dorsum of second segment, and 

 orange dots on dorsum of fourth and following segments ; 

 tuft orange. Femora blackish with longitudinal ochreous- 

 whitish streaks on anterior and posterior margins ; tibiae 

 fuscous mixed with ochreous-whitish ; tarsi ochreous- 

 whitish. rore\\'ings elongate, very narrow somewhat 

 dilated towards apex, costa sinuate, apex rounded, termeil 

 oblique, slightly rounded ; pale orange with longitudinal 

 blackish streaks : a blackish spot in disc at f , followed by 

 a large oval hyaline area traversed by black veins 5 and ',.■ 

 cilia fuscous, at tornus whitish-orange. Hindwings hyaline > 

 veins and termen blackish ; cilia fuscous. 



N.Q. Kuranda near Cairns ; two specimens received 

 from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



Gen. D I A p Y R A nov. 



dianvgoq, red-hot. 



Tongue present. Palpi short, ascending, not reaching 

 base of antennae ; second joint shortly rough-haired ; terminal 

 joint as long as second, with loosely appressed long hairs. 

 Fore wings densely scaled throughout ; 2 absent, 7 and 8: 

 stalked, 7 to apex. Hindwings with 3 and 4 stalked. 



DIAPYRA IGNIFLUA. 



Sesia igniflua, Luc, P.L.S.N.S.W., 1893, p. 133. 



(J 5 . 10-18 mm. Head blackish with lustrous re- 

 flections. Palpi whitish ; terminal joint fuscous. Antennae 

 blackish ; ciliations in ^ 1|. Thorax blackish, central 

 area irrorated with reddish-orange in (J , wholly reddish- 

 orange in 9 . Abdomen blackish ; apex of fifth segment 

 whitish, more broadly so at each side ; a few whitish scales 

 on some of the other segments ; underside whitish, apices 

 of third and fourth segments blackish. Legs blackish ; 

 most of femora and annulations on tibiae and tarsi whitish. 

 Forewings elongate, very narrow, somewhat dilated towards 



