36 STUDIES IN AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



broadly folded over beneath, and vein 10 anastomoses 

 with 9 beyond 7 in both sexes. 



Termioptycha cyanopa. 

 Termioptycha cyanopa, Meyr., Tr. E.S., 1889, p. 505. 

 Sialocyttara erasta, Turn., P.R.S.Q., 1912, p. 134. 

 N.Q., Cairns. Also from New Guinea. 



Subfam. Pyraustinse. 

 Gen. Tholerastis, nov. 

 doXegaarig, turbid, muddy. 



Frons not projecting. Tongue present. Palpi long, 

 ascending, recurved ; terminal joint as long as second, 

 slender, acuminate. Maxillary palpi moderately dilated. 

 Forewings rather narrow, 5 absent, 8, 9, 10, 11 stalked. 

 Hindwings with 5 ajjsent, 8 anastomosing with cell and 

 with 7. A derivative of Nymphula. 



Tholerastis elaphra, n. sp. 

 iXacpQog, light. 



$ 16 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax 

 fuscous. Abdomen and legs pale fuscous. Forewings 

 narrowly triangular, costa straight for f, gently arched 

 towards apex, apex rounded, termen obliquely rounded ; 

 fuscous-whitish suffused with fuscous ; a fuscous spot 

 beneath costa just beyond middle ; a pale submarginal 

 line ; cilia fuscous-whitish with a fuscous basal lino. 

 Hindwings with termen rounded ; whitish with some pale 

 grey suffusion ; cilia whitish with a grey basal line. 



Type in Coll. Turner. 



Q., Killarney, in November ; one specimen. 



Cataclysta pericompsa, n. sp. 



TiEQixofixog, exquisite. 



J 9 11-14 mm. Head, whitish. Palpi 1| ; fuscous, 

 apices whitish. Antennae fuscous- whitish ; ciliations in 

 (J I. Thorax fuscous ; patagia mostly whitish. Abdomen 

 fuscous or ochreous-brown, beneath whitish. Legs 

 whitish ; anterior coxae and femora fuscous ; anterior 

 tibiae and tarsi annulated with fuscous. Forewings elongate- 



