BY A. JEFFERIS TURNER. 1& 



indistinct line from f costa to | dorsum, bent outwards in 

 disc ; a similar indistinct subterminal line ; cilia brownish- 

 fuscous. Hindwings with termen rounded, slightly sinuate 

 beneath apex ; brownish-fuscous ; cilia brownish-fuscous. 



Type iq Coll. Turner. 



Q., Brisbane, in May and July ; Killarney, in October ; 

 three specimens. The locality given by Hampson is. 

 incorrect. 



Trichocerosia zebrina. 

 Trichocerosia zebrina, Hmps., Cat. Lep. Phal. Suppl. i., 



p 739, PI. 38, f. 26. 



^ 2 20-25 mm. Head blackish, face orange. Palpi 

 blackish. Antennae blackish ; in ^ bipectinate to apex, 

 pectinations 6 ; in $ serrate ; in both sexes hairy on upper 

 surface of shaft. Thorax blackish, tegulse orange. 

 Abdomen blackish, apical segments ochreous ; towards base 

 beneath ochreous with two pairs of lateral orange spots. 

 Legs blackish ; middle joints of posterior tarsi ochreous^ 

 Forewings narrowly elongate-ovate, costa moderately 

 arched, apex rounded, termen obliquely rounded ; blackish ; 

 a transverse orange streak from dorsum near base, not 

 reaching costa ; an orange spot above dorsum at J ; a second 

 orange streak from mid-dorsum, in 9 almost reaching 

 midcosta, in ^ shorter ; an ochreous spot just above 

 tornus, with another above in disc, in $ these two spota 

 are absent ; cilia blackish. Hindwings elongate-ovate ; 

 blackish ; an orange sub-basal spot ; a larger median spot 

 elongated transversely ; cilia blackish. 



A brilliant little species very tropical in appearance. 

 It differs from the type in having vein 9 present arising 

 with 8 by a common stalk from 7. 



Type in Coll. Lyell. 



N.S.W., Lilyvale, Wingham, and Stanwell Park, near 

 Bulli, in March ; four specimens. 



Gen. I o N T H A s . 



iovdag, with fine hairs. 



lonihas, Hmps., Cat. Lep. Phal. Suppl. i., p. 777. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen clothed with hairs above 

 and beneath. Tongue absent. Palpi minute, porrect. 



