ODE NOCLUID.E, 
in submedian fold, then incurved; reniform defined by white; an 
oblique white fascia from apex to a double chain-like white sub- 
terminal line incurved below vein 3; a terminal series of small 
black and white lunules. Hind wing black-brown, the cilia whitish 
at tips. Underside of fore wing black, greyish towards termen and 
with orange patch at base. 
Hab. QuEENsLAND, Makay, type T 2 in Coll. Lower. Lap. 5 
millim. 
Genus LOPHOSEMA, noy. 
Type, L. purpurascens, 
Proboscis slight, not functional; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint 
reaching to vertex of head and fringed with hair above towards extremity, the 
3rd long and dilated at extremity; frons with tuft of hair above; eyes large, 
round; antenne of male laminate, minutely serrate and ciliated; thorax 
clothed almost entirely with scales, the protaorax without crest, the meta- 
thorax with depressed crest ; fore and hind tibiz broadly fringed on each side 
with hair, the hind tibie slightly fringed; abdomen with dorsal crests on 
basal segments. Pore wing with the apex rounded, the termen nearly straight 
to vein 4, then very oblique fo tornus; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 
6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a long narrow 
areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 5 and 5 from close to angle 
of cell; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell to middle, 
6637. Lophosema purpurascens. 
Lophosema purpurascens, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) vi. p. 204 (1910). 
g. Head and thorax purplish grey, the vertex of head with 
black streak, the tegula with black streak at middle and purplish 
red outer edge, the patagia edged above with purplish red; pectus in 
front and legs ochreous, the fore and mid tibie with some purplish 
grey and streaked with black; abdomen fuscous brown, the crests 
greyish and red-brown, the ventral surface ochreous white. Fore 
Fig. 121.—Luphosema purpurascens, 3. }. 
wing purplish red streaked with black; a fine black streak on base 
of subcostal nervure; a fine black streak defined by greyish in 
submedian fold ; orbicular and reniform with ochreous centres with 
tufts of red-brown scales in them and red-brown annuli defined by 
grey, round, the latter produced to a point on outer side; a wedge- 
shaped grey mark on middle of inner margin; postmedial line 
