DASYGASTER. 475 



medial line strongly dentate and produced to white points on the 

 veins, hent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4, some 

 white points beyond it on cosla ; subterminal line ochreous white, 

 reduced to points on short black streaks at middle, angled outwards 

 at vein 7, excurved at middle and bent outwards to tornus ; a 

 terminal series of black p'^ints. Hind wing brown suffused with 

 fuscous, the cilia more ochreous ; the underside white, slightly 

 tinged with ]»urplish red and irrorated with fuscous ; a black streak 

 on median nervure, discoidal luuule, and curved postmedial line, 

 with the area beyond it suffused with fuscous. 



Hah. TasmajsIa {Smith), 1 c^ type. E.vp. 42 millim. 



Sect. II. AnteDiise of male minutely serrate, with fascicles of cilia and bristles. 



A. Fore wing with black streak below base of cell. 



a. Fore wing with the black streak strong, extending to near 



anteniedial line acontosema. 



h. Fore wing with the black streak slight, short nephi'Udis. 



E. Fore wina; withont black streak below base of cell. 



a. Fore wing reddish brown to grey-brown hnUandue. ^ 



b. Fore wing fuscous black epuiuloides. 



*1823, Dasygaster acontosema. (Plate XCI. fig. 13.) 



Lexicania acontosema, Turner, Trans. Eoy. Soc. S. Austr. 1903, p. 4. 



cJ . Pale brownish ochreous ; palpi blackish at sides ; frons \vith 

 brown band above ; vertex of head brownish ; tegulaj with black 

 medial line ; tarsi banded with blackish. Fore wing with black 

 streak below cell to near autemedial line ; the subbasal line repre- 

 sented by a black striga from costa ; anteniedial lino interrupted, 

 represented by black strigae on costa and in cell and angled out- 

 wards in submediau interspace and above inner margin ; orbicular 

 and reniform whitish, the former small, elliptical, the cell before 

 and between them and the disk beyond the reniform suffused with 

 fussous ; postmedial line minutely waved, black, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; a slight oblique 

 streak from apex ; a terminal series of small black luniiles. Hind 

 wing ochreous whitish tinged w'ith brown, especially towards 

 termen ; cilia white, the underside whiter ; both wings with curved 

 crenulate postmedial line. 



Hah. Queensland, Rockhampton, type t d in Coll. Turner. 

 Exp. 46 millim. 



1824. Dasygaster nephelistis, n. sp. (Plate XCI. fig 14.) 



Head and thorax ochreous mixed with rufous ; palpi black at side ; 

 frons with black bar ; tegulse with black medial line ; tarsi with pale 

 rings ; abdomen pale ochreous, dorsally tinged with brown and 



