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NEW Australian Lepidoptera, with Synonymic 



AND OTHER NOTES. 



By A. Jeffeius Turner, M.D., F.E.S. 



[Read July 10, 1906.] 



Family ARCTIADyE 

 Genus Maenas. 



Maenas, Hb., Verz. p. 167, Hmps., Cat. Lep. Phal. iii., 

 p. 247. 



This small genus only differs from Diacrisia, Hb. (Spilo- 

 ioina, Sfceph.), in the posterior tibise having one pair of spurs. 

 It has not been previously recorded from Australia, but allied 

 8pe<?ies occur in the Malay Archipelago. 



Maenas arescopa, n. sp. 

 ( Arescopos, of pleasing appearance.) 



Male, 33 mm. Female, 47 mm. Head whitish. Palpi 

 fuscous. Antennae fuscous; pectinations unequal, in male 

 outer row 8 inner 5, in female outer 1| inner 1 ; each pectina- 

 tion with a terminal bristle. Thorax whitish ; tegulae edged 

 with rosy, and with a pair of fuscous spots ; patagia with fus- 

 cous spot at base. Abdomen rosy above, with a few median 

 fuscous dots on j^osterior segments ; beneath whitish ; a row of 

 lateral fuscous dots. Legs fuscous ; anterior coxae fuscous 

 anteriorly, rosy posteriorly ; anterior femora rosy anteriorly, 

 whitish posteriorly ; middle and posterior femora whitish. 

 Forewings triangular, costa in male straight to near apex, in 

 female evenly arched, apex rounded, termen obliquely round- 

 ed ; whitish ; markings fuscous ; two incomplete fasciae from 

 oosta near base; a fascia from costa before middle to mid-dor- 

 sum, broad on costa, sometimes interrupted ; two oblique post- 

 median fasciae from costa at g and near apex to dorsum, more 

 or less intei-rupted to form partially confluent spots ; a short 

 sub-terminal series of dots opposite mid-termen, and another 

 on mid-termen ; cilia whitish, on spots fuscous. Hindwings 

 with termen rounded; whitish; with small' fuscous spots; one 

 on end of cell, another on tornus, two in a line from tornus to 

 apex, first before vein 2, second beyond vein 5 ; cilia whitish. 



Type in Coll., Turner. 



N.Q., Kuranda, in May and June; three specimens re« 

 ceived from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



