STUDIES IN AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



By a. Jefferis Turner, M.D., F.E.S. 



(Bead before the Royal Society of Queensland, 2ijt}t April, 



1915.) 



Family ARCTIAD^. 

 Subfamily Nolinse. 



PiSARA HYALOSPILA. 



vakoaniXog, with transparent spot. 

 Pisara hyalospila, Hmps. Cat. Lep. Phal., Suppl. i., p. 389. 

 ^ $ 18-20 mm. Head white. Palpi 3 ; pale 

 brownish. Antennae grey ; basal joint white ; 

 <3iliations in ^ 2. Thorax brown mixed with whitish. 

 Abdomen whitish ; a strong basal dorsal crest pale brown. 

 Legs whitish with some fuscous irroration ; anterior femora 

 and tibiae fuscous ; anterior and middle tarsi fuscous 

 with white annulations. Forewings suboblong, costa 

 rather strongly arched, apex rounded, termen obliquely 

 rounded ; in <J with a square hyaline fovea at | with trans- 

 versely striated base and visible on both upper and lower 

 surfaces ; white ; basal third fuscous brown with a darker 

 outwardly curved transverse line from ^ costa to ^ dorsum ; 

 iovea preceded and followed by a raised tuft of scales ; 

 a fine interrupted dark fuscous line from ^ costa to mid- 

 dorsum, curved outwards in disc ; a thick dark fuscous 

 line from costa before apex to tornus, straight but with a 

 posterior denta,tion above tornus ; a fuscous terminal 

 line ; cilia white with some fuscous irroration. Hindwings 

 with termen rounded grey-whitish, towards base whitish ; 

 cilia whitish. 



Type in Coll. Turner. 



N.Q., Kuranda, near Cairn?, in June and October. 

 Q Brisbane. Three specimens. 



