DASE0CH.2ETA.. — LETTCONYCTA. 35 



*3G0S. Daseochaeta beryllodes. (Plate CXXIII. fig. 25.) 



Dipthera beryllodes, Turner, Trans. R. Sue. S. Austr. K03, p. 5. 



cS . Palpi ochreous and brown : head and thorax bright green ; 

 frons white : antennae rufous with the basal joint white in front ; 

 teguke with the basal half rufous and black medial line ; patagia 

 and metathoracic crests at tips with some black scales ; fore tarsi, 

 terminal half of mid tibia?, and hind legs ochreous and black; 

 abdomen ochreous with blackish lateral stripes, the dorsal crest on 

 l.st segment green, the others blackish. Pore wing bright green ; 

 a small black lunule at base of cell with rufous and black lunules 

 below and beyond it, the latter with white below it ; subbasal and 

 antemedial black points on costa with a semicircular black-edged 

 rufous mark between them : an antemedial black point on inner 

 margin ; a small comma-shaped white spot in middle of cell ; 

 a waved medial black liue interrupted by the white reniform with 

 waved black bar on it ; postmedial line remote from cell, black, 

 irregular, excurved below cost a, angled outwards at veins 4 and 3, 

 incurved at discal and submedian lolds, defined by Avhite on inner 

 side, strongly in submedian fold, with a rufous band on its outer 

 edge bounded by the indistinct subterminal line, which has some 

 black on it below costa, is incurved at van 7 and below vein 4, 

 somewhat dentate at middle and excurved in submedian fold, the 

 rufous extending to near termen above middle ; a terminal series 

 of small black lunules ; cilia chequered with brown. Hind wing 

 ochreous tinged with brown ; a dark discoidal lunule ; the terminal 

 area dark brown with sinuous inner edge ; cilia chequered white 

 and brown. Underside ochreous with dark discoidal lunules and 

 irregularly waved medial and postmedial lines with irregular dark 

 band beyond the latter. 



Hob. Queensland, Dulong, Bkckall Range, type t 6 in Coll. 

 Turner. Exp. 44 millim. 



Genus LEUCONYCTA, nov. 



Type, L. diphteroides. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, slender, the 2nd 

 joint reaching about to middle of irons and moderately fringed with scales in 

 front, the 3rd rather long; frons with transverse ridge; eyes large, round; 

 antennae of male ciliated; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed, the 

 pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; build slender ; tibiaa smoothly 

 scaled ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex 

 rounded, the termen evenly curved and slightly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 

 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 

 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of 

 cell; 5 obsolescent from below middle of discocellulars ; 0, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



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