ELESMA. 369 
Genus ELESMA. 
Type. 
EV ESHA ENV Le XX KLM OOS USO) access ci erent siciersins crosaiecue Quiescent sieeve subglauca. 
Amaloptera, Turner, Trans, R. Soc. 8. Austr. xxvii. p. 6 (1903). swbglauca. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching 
about to middle of frons and moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd 
short with slight tuft of hair in front; frons smooth with large tuft of hair 
above ; eyes large, round; antenne of male ciliated; thorax clothed almost 
entirely with scales, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with 
spreading crests; tibie slightly fringed with hair; abdomen without crests. 
Fore wing long and narrow, the apex rectangular, the termen evenly curved 
and not crenulate; vein 3 from before angle of cell; 5 from above angle; 6 
from upper angle; 7,8, 9 ona long stalk; 10,11 from cell. Hind wing with 
veins 3, 4 on a long stalk; 5 fully developed from just above angle of cell; 
6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to middle. 
6638. Elesma subglauca. 
Elesma subylauca, Wk. xxxii. 608 (1865). 
Metaptila philomela, Lower, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. 8. W. xxv. p. 31 (1900). 
Amaloptila triorbis, Turner, Trans. Roy. Soc. 8. Austr. xxvii. p. 6 (1903). 
Head and tegule whitish irrorated with fuscous; thorax grey 
irrorated with black; abdomen whitish. Fore wing grey finely 
irrorated with black; the antemedial line black, very oblique from 
costa to submedian fold, then incurved and angled outwards above 
inner margin; orbicular small, round, defined by black ; black- 
edged lunules on median and subcostal nervures before end of cell 
Fig. 1387.—Elesina subglauca, Q. 4. 
and on discocellulars, with raised brown scales in centres; post- 
medial line fine, waved, bent outwards below costa, oblique to 
vein 4, then strongly incurved and minutely dentate ; subterminal 
line greyish defined on inner side by black, dentate, angled outwards 
at vein 7, incurved at discal fold and below vein 3, the interspaces 
beyond it with black streaks. Hind wing white, the terminal area 
tinged with fuscous to vein 2. 
Hab. N. 8S. Wates (Damel), 1 2 type, Newcastle, type Td 
triorbis in Coll. Turner, Hap. 34 millim. 
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