Abdomen fuscous. Legs pale-brownih^h, anterior pair fuscous ; 

 mid and liind femora and tibire densely clothed with long hairs ; 

 posterior tibiie in male without spurs, but with a tuft of long 

 hairs from extremity closely approximated to the very long and 

 much dilated first joint of tarsus. Forewings sub-oblong, costa 

 twice sinuate, apex acute, slightly produced, termen obtusely 

 angled on vein 4 ; brownish, slightly purplish tinged ; base of 

 dorsum suffused with chestnut-brown ; a straight oblique shade 

 of dark-fuscous c.nd brown scales from mid-costa to tornus ; cilia 

 brown. Hindwings with termen rounded, indented above tornus; 

 dark-fuscous ; cilia brownish, towards tornus fuscous. Underside 

 of wings reddish brown, forewings suffusf^d with fuscous, except 

 towards costa and apex. 



Type in Queensland Museum. 



North Queensland, Geraldton (Johnstone River); one specimen. 



Section Homopterin^. 

 Thyas amideta, n. i<p. 



{Ameidetos, gloomy.) 



Female, G8 mm. Head, thorax, palpi, and antennae grey- 

 Abdomen ochreous ; basal segment grey. Legs grey. Forewings 

 triangular, costa nearly straight, apex acute, termen straight, 

 rounded beneaih, slightly oblique ; grey, with sparsely scattered 

 dark -fuscous scales ; markings dark-fuscous ; a fine indistinct 

 line from near base of costa to fold ; a straight outwardly oblique 

 antemedian line from one-fourth costa to one-third dorsum ; a 

 straight inwardly oblique postmedian line from three-fourths 

 costa to two thirds dorsum ; orbicular obsolete ; reniform repre- 

 sented by a cluster of dark -fuscous dots ; an obscure subterminal 

 series of minute dots ; cilia grey. Hindwings with termen 

 rounded ; fuscous, a suffused paler shade from tornus towards 

 mid-costa, a narrow grey terminal suffusion not reaching to apex 

 or tornus : cilia grey. 



Allied to Ophiusa coronata, Fab., but hindwings without 

 yellow. 



Type in coll. Agricultural Department, Queensland. 



North Queensland, Cairns ; one specimen. 



Thyas redunca. 

 Ophiusa redunca, Swin., Cat. Oxf. Mus., II., p. 141 (1900). 

 Thyas aellora, Meyr., Tr. E.S., 1902, p. 29. 

 OiohiiLsa trophidota, Turn., P.LS., N.S.W., 1902, p. 95. 

 Queensland, Brisbane. 



