144 NEW SPECIES OF QUEENSLAND LEI'IDOPTERA. 



fuscous posterior to second line. Cilia grey. Hindwings as 

 forewings with first line wanting; space between second and 

 marginal line freely dusted and diffused with ferrous fuscous. 

 Wynnum Swamps, Brisbane. One specimen taken by Mr. 

 Benson Hall. 



The forewings are thrown forward until their costal edges 

 almost meet when at rest. As the creature sits on the tee-tie 

 bark it is almost impossible to detect it, so perfect is the 

 deception. 



FAMILY MONOCTENIAD^. 



MONOCTOPHORA. NOV. GEN. 



Face with dense hairs. Tongue developed. Antenna- in $ 

 unipectinated, apical third simple. Pajpi raliier stout, short, 

 sub-ascending, densely scaled, terminal joint thick. Thorax 

 stout, densely hairy, long woolly hairs beneath. Anterior 

 tibias in ^ with apical hook, all tarsi spinulose. Forewings 

 with vein 6 out of 9, 10 connected with 9 by bar. Hindwings 

 with veins 6 and 7 stalked. 



Allied to Monoctenia, but the stalking of veins 6 and 7 is 

 very distinctive. 



MONOCTOPHORA STILLANS. NOV. SP. 



^ 3G — 88 iiv Hi- Head, thorax, and palpi pale brownish 

 ochreous. Antennas reddish ochreous, pectinations pale 

 ochreous. Abdomen whitish ochreous, under surface of thorax 

 and abdomen, thickly covered with long white woolly hairs. 

 Forewings broadly triangular, apex acute, subfalcate, hind- 

 margin gently rounded, slightly contracted or puckered opposite 

 vein 2 ; pale brownish ochreous, with two transverse lines of 

 purplish red dots, in some specimens enlarging to blotches ; 

 first line consists of two dots equi-distant between ^ inner 

 margin to 3 costa ; second line consists of dots on all the 

 veins, in some suffused into a blotched bar, from f inner margin 

 to i costa; a deep red brown hindmarginal band to just 

 before anal anyle, fringed anteriorly with ochreous red, which 

 continues to anal angle. Cilia deep brown to before anal angle, 

 thence and along inner margin pale ochreous. Hindwings as 

 forewings, with two transverse lines of purplish red dots parallel 

 to hind margin, first line of some four dots, from i inner 

 margin to half across the wing ; second line of dots and 

 splashes from f inner margin to just before apex of costa ; dark 



