22 STUDIES IN AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



Ariathisa spilocrossa, n. sp. 



aniXoxQoaaoQ, with spotted border. 



$ 26 mm. Head and palpi dark-fuscous. Antennae 

 dark-fuscous : in $ shortly and evenly ciliated {\). Thorax 

 dark-fuscous with a few Avhitish scales. Abdomen grey. 

 Legs fuscous mixed with whitish ; posterior pair paler ; 

 tarsi dark-fuscous annulated with whitish. Forewings 

 elongate-triangular, costa straight, apex rounded, termen 

 scarcely oblique, rounded beneath ; dark-fuscous ; markings 

 and some scattered scales whitish ; a short dentate line 

 irom costa near base not reaching dorsum ; a dentate line 

 from \ costa to \ dorsum ; orbicular represented by a 

 minute white dot ; reniform by a blackish spot, its 

 posterior lower angle produced into a sharp point, edged 

 especially posteriorly by whitish ; two sharply dentate lines 

 from beneath reniform to before tornus ; a series of dots 

 ■along apical half of costa and whole of termen ; cilia 

 fuscous, apices whitish. Hindwing grey ; cilia whitish, 

 towards apex grey. 



Type in WA. Museum. 



W.A., Busselton, in October ; two specimens. 



Fam. LYMANTRIADiE. 



Subfam. Lymantrianse. 



Gen. E u z o R A , nov. 



ev^oiQOQ, pure. 



Palpi minute, porrect. Antennae bipectinated in both 

 sexes. Thorax and abdomen not crested. Posterior tibiae 

 without middle spurs. Forewings with 2 from f, 3 from 

 before angle, 7, 8, 9 stalked, 7 arising before 9, 10 and 11 

 from cell, no areole. Hindwings with 5 approximated at 

 base to 4, 6 and 7 connate, 8 approximated to cell before 

 middle. 



Type Porthesia collucens, Luc. This genus is the 

 same as Caragola, Moore, Lep. Atk., p. 46 (1879), Hmps., 

 Moths Ind. i., p. 489, but that name is preoccupied (Gray, 

 Pisces, 1851). 



