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dense hairs. Forewings hyaline except on veins, margins, 

 and a transverse bar at end of cell ; 2 present, 7 and 8 

 stalked, 7 to ternien. Hindwings hyaline ; .3 and 4 separate, 

 G and 7 stalked. 



MELITTIA THAUMASIA H. sp. 



davjuaaiog, wonderful. 



^ 9 . 30-32 mm. Head blackish with a few ochreous 

 scales. Palpi blackish mixed with white hairs ; terminal 

 joint ochreous-brown. Thorax blackish with some ochreous 

 scales and tufts at wing bases. Abdomen dark-fuscous, 

 apices of segments pale-ochreous ; beneath bright yellow. 

 Legs blackish mixed with white hairs ; middle tarsi annu- 

 lated with white ; hairs on posterior tibiae and tarsi blackish 

 mixed with reddish -brown, on upper surface of tibiae partly 

 white. Forewings narrowly elongate, dilated towards apex, 

 costa straight to |, then arched, apex rounded, termen 

 straight, oblique , hyaline ; margins and veins blackish, 

 including a transverse bar on end of cell, and a terminal 

 band ; cilia fuscous. Hindwings hyaline ; veins and margins 

 slenderly blackish ; rather broader bands on costa and 

 dorsum, at their bases mixed with ochreous ; cilia fuscous. 



N.Q. Kuranda near Cairns in January ; two specimens 

 received from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



Gen. SCIAPTERON. 



^Sciapteron, Stgr , Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1856, p. 195 ; Meyr., 

 Brit. Lep., p. 567 ; Hmps., Moths Ind., i, p. 191. 

 Tongue well developed. Antennae slightly dilated and 

 hooked (but not clubbed) towards apex ; in ^ ciliated. 

 Palpi moderate, ascending; second joint not i caching base 

 of antennae, clothed with dense hairs which in 9 form an 

 anterior tuft ; terminal joint smooth, acute. Posterior 

 tibiae in ^ with a slight tuft of hairs on upper surface. 

 Forewings clothed with scales or hyaline ; 2 present ; 7 and 8 

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

 6 absent. 



SCIAPTERON TERRIBILE H. -Sp. 



Terribilis, causing fear. 



$ 24-26 mm. Head blackish ; face yellow. Palpi 

 yellow, some long fuscous hairs on sides of second joint. 

 Thorax blackish, tegu'ae, base and apex of patagia, and a 



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