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in subniedian fold, then incurved ; renit'orm defined by white ; an 

 obli<jue white fascia from ajiex 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 tore wing black, greyish towards termen and 

 with orange patch at base. 



Hah. Queensland, Makay, type f $ in Coll. Lower. Exj). oH 

 millim. 



Genus LOPHOSEMA, nov. 



Type, L. purpurascens. 



Proboscis slight, not fiinctioiial ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2ncl joiut 

 reaching to vertex of head and fringed with hair above towards extremity, the 

 8rd long and dilated at extremity; irons with t.uft of hair above; eyes large, 

 round ; antennte of male laminate, minutely serrate and ciliated ; thorax 

 clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax without crest, the meta- 

 thorax with depressed crest ; foro and hind tibise broadly fringed on each side 

 with hair, the hind tibii^ sligiitly fringed; abdomen with dorsal crests oa 

 basal segments. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen nearly straight 

 to vein 4, then very oblique to 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 3 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. (8j vi. p. 204 (1910). 



^ . Head and thorax purplish grey, the vertex of head with 

 black streak, the tegula3 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 tibiae 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. — Lojjhosema purpurascens, (^ . 



wing ptirplish 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 



