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short tuft on its posterior aspect shortly before apex. (Thorax 
imperfect.) Forewings moderate, apex rounded, hindmargin 
convex, not oblique. Hindwings broader than forewings, oblong- 
ovate, cilia less than one-third. Abdomen rather stout. Fore- 
wings with seven and eight long-stalked, eight to apex, seven to 
hindmargin, two from before angle of cell. Hindwings with v. 
7 bent in a sigmoid curve so as to be approximated to six on 
disc, and diverging from it to hindmargin. 
ScORPIOPSIS SUPERBA, N. Sp. 
Female, 20 mm. Head and face red, mottled with pale yellow. 
Palpi, second joint reddish-ochreous, internal surface whitish, 
ringed with white at apex, extreme apex red; terminal joint 
moderate, with a short posterior tuft about one-fourth its length 
just before apex, red, basal half whitish on posterior surface, 
apex beyond tuft whitish. Antenne stout, reddish-ochreous. 
Thorax red mottled with pale yellow, shoulders white. Abdomen 
ochreous-whitish, tuft whitish. Legs whitish, anterior tibize and 
tarsi red, the latter with white annulations. Forewings some- 
what dilated posteriorly, costa strongly arched, apex much 
rounded, hindmargin convex, rounded beneath, not oblique, 
inner margin sinuate; pale red irregularly suffused with fuscous, 
with numerous minute pale yellow spots; in posterior half these 
are arranged in longitudinal lines along the veins, which are_ 
slenderly outlined in fuscous between the spots; a fuscous line 
along costa to three-fourths, costal edge red; three larger pure 
white spots in dise at about one-fourth, and a fourth spot slightly 
beyond these ; two lustrous silvery-white spots in costal portion 
of disc at three-fourths, one of these a small circular spot near 
costa, the other between this and centre of disc larger, oval, with 
long axis transverse, both finely outlined with deep red; a narrow 
fuscous hindmarginal line; cilia pale red with a pale fuscous 
median line, apices whitish-ochreous. Hindwings white faintly 
ochreous-tinged towards apices, cilia white. 
Brisbane. One specimen taken by Dr. Lucas. 
Patparia, Wing. 
The following species of this genus have been taken in the 
neighbourhood of Brisbane :— 
Palparia aurata, Walk. 
- uncinella, Z. 
semiyunctella, Walk. 
as pyroptts, Meyr. (MSS.). 
conephela, Meyr. 
ae rectiorella, Walk. 
