BY A. JEFFERIS TURNER. 49 



rather thinly scaled ; cilia whitish A\ith a brown basal line. 

 Type in Coll. Goldfinch. 

 N.S.W., Taroe, in September ; one specimen. 



Gen. Thesaurica, nov. 

 OrjaavQog, a treasure. 



Frons with a bluntly triangular prominence. Tongue 

 well-developed. Palpi moderate, porrcct, t-^rminal joint 

 downcurved. Maxillary palpi filiform. Forewings with 

 tufts of raised scales ; 2 from f, 3 from just before angle, 

 4, 5 approximated at base from angle, 8, 9 stalked, 10 

 approximated to them. Hindwings with 4, 5 approximated 

 for a shoit distance, 6, 7 connate, 7 anastomosing with 8 

 for less than half its length. 



The combination of a triangularly projecting frons 

 with tufted forewings makes this a< very distinct genus. 



Thesaurica argentifera. 



Sameodes argentifera, Hmps., A.M.N.H. (8), xi., 325 (1913). 



(J 16 mm. Head orange ; face whitish-ochreous. 

 Palpi orange, base and upper edge white. Antennae g-'ey ; 

 in (J thickened and with minute ciliations. Thorax orange 

 with three whitish-ochreous spots on each side. Abdomen 

 ochreous, bases of segments fuscous 5th to 8th segments 

 with broad basal fuscoue bands. Legs orange -ochreous, 

 ventral aspect whitish ; tarsi brownish-ochreous annulated 

 with white. Forewings rather broadly triangulai, costa 

 gently arched, apex rounded, termsn slightly bowed, 

 moderately oblique ; orange partly brownish-tinged ; a 

 whitirh-oehreous spot on bas3, connected with a spot just 

 beyond, and this again Avith an irregular spot resting on 

 J dorsum ; three steely metallic streaks between this spot 

 and costa, and d. similar dot on ^ dorsum ; an elevated 

 ridge of simila.r metallic scales from J costa to ^ dorsum ; 

 a squarish whitish-ochreous subcostal spot beyond this ; 

 a broken series of raised metallic dots from mid-costa 

 to f dorsum ; a whitish-ochreous subcostal dot at f ; a 

 line of raised metallic dots from ^ costa angulated outwards 

 in disc, joining previous line on dorsum ; two elongate 

 subterminal whitish-ochreous spots interrupting a sub- 



