202 NOCTUID.E. 



points just before termen. Underside of fore wing strongly suffused 

 with crimson except inner area; hind wing slightly suffused with 

 crimson. 



Hub. Japan, Kiushiu (Leech), 1 £, Tokio (Fenton), 1 <$ type, 

 Yokohama (Pryer), 3 <S . Exp. 20 millim. 



Genus PEPERITA, nov. 



r J ype, ]'. molybdopasta. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 vertex of head, moderately fringed with hair in front and behind towards 

 extremity, the 3rd joint minute, porrect ; frons smooth; eyes large, round; 

 antenna? of male with fasciculate oilia ; thorax clothed with hair and scales 

 nixed, and without crests; tibia; moderately fringed with hair; abdomen 

 with dorsal series of crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen 

 evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins X and 5 from near antjle of cell ; 

 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 

 4 from angle of cell ; 5 nearly fully developed from just below middle of disco- 

 cellulars; (J, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



5313. Peperita molybdopasta. 



Erastroides molybdopasta, Turner, Tr. R. Soe. 8. Austr. xxxii. p. 69 (1908). 



Head and thorax ochreous grey mixed with black scales tipped 

 with silver ; palpi, fore legs, and tarsi blackish ; abdomen ochreous 

 grey irrorated with black, the crests black tipped with silver. Fore 

 wing ochreous grey irrorated with black and a few silver scales, and 

 with basal, antemedial and medial black patches on costa irrorated 

 with silver ; an indistinct oblique antemedial black line : a diffused 

 black discoidal patch with some silver scales on it; a sinuous 

 black line from lower an<>'le of cell to inner margin ; postmedial area 

 with black streaks on the veins and white points with black between 



Fig. 44. — Feperila molybdopmia, J. I. 



thorn on costa, traces of a whitish subterminal line excurved at 

 middle ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia chequered ochreous 

 and black. Hind wing ochreous grey irrorated with black and a 

 few silver scales ; indistinct minutely waved medial, postmedial, 

 and subterminal lines ; a punctiform black terminal line ; cilia 

 ochreous with a black line near tips; the underside grey irrorated 

 and suffused -.with brown, a slight discoidal lunule, curved medial 

 line and diffused subterminal band. 



Hub. Queensland. Kuranda (Dodd), 2 <$ , 1 5. Exp. 18-20 

 millim. Type t in Coll. Turner. 



