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Leptobelistis, n. 



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Head with loosely appressed hairs. Tongue very small 

 and weak. Antenna in male strongly ciliated. Palpi short, 

 recurved, slender, not reaching vertex; second joint 

 with appressed scales; terminal joint about half second, 

 slender, acute. Thorax smooth. Abdomen slender. 



Forewings with vein 2 from five-sixths, 3 from angle, 7 and 8 

 long-stalked, 7 to hindmargin. Hindwings with 3 and 4 sepa- 

 rate at base, 6 and 7 stalked to foiu'-fifths of their length. 



The long-stalking of veins 6 and 7 of the hindwings and 

 the short palpi, ^^^th well-developed, slender, terminal joint, 

 aufficiently characterise this genus. 



Leptobelistis asemanta, n. sp. 



Male and female, 12-15 mm. Head white. Palpi white; 

 second joint with a subapical fuscous ring. Antennae dark 

 fuscous; in female white; ciliations in male 2. Thorax dark 

 fuscous, irrorated with white. Abdomen ochreous-fuscous ; 

 tuft whitish. Legs white ; anterior and middle pair dark 

 fuscous anteriorly. Forewings rather narrow, costa slightly 

 arched, apex round-pointed, hindmargin straight, oblique ; 

 white, sparsely irrorated with dark fuscous ; three large fus- 

 cous ^pots on inner margin at base, middle, and anal angle; 

 cilia dark-fuscous mixed with white. Hindwings and cilia 

 pale grey. 



Townsville, Queensland, in November ; a series bred by Mr. 

 F. P. Dodd. 



Type in Coll. Walsingham. 



Clerarcha poliochyta, n. sp. 



Male and female, 20-28 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax 

 white, very sparsely irrorated with dark fuscous. Abdomen 

 grey. Legs white, irrorated, and tarsi annulated with dark 

 fuscous. Forewings elongate-oblong, costa slightly arched at 

 base, thence nearly straight to near apex, apex round-pointed, 

 termen obliquely rounded ; pale grey, mixed with white and 

 dark fuscous; a short narrow vertical dark fuscous line from 

 fold in disc at one-third ; a dark fuscous discal dot surrounded 

 by white at two-thirds ; a sub-terminal series of dark fuscous 

 streaks on veins ; a series of minute terminal dark fuscous dots 

 obsolete towards costa; cilia grey, bases and extreme apices 

 white. Hindwings elongate-ovate, termen slightly sinuate ; 

 grey ; cilia whitish with a grey line at one-third. 



Townsville, Queensland, in September ; four bred specimens 

 received from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



Type in Coll. Walsingham. 



