ELESMA. 369 



Genus ELESMA. 



Type. 



Elesma, Wlk. xxxii. 608 (1865) subglauoa. 



Ainaloptera, Turner, Trans. R. Soc. S. Austr. xxvii. p. 6 (1903) . subglauoa. 



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; antenna 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 on a 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. 



6688. Elesma subglauca. 



Elesma suhglauca, Wlk. xxxii. 608 (1805). 



Meta-ptila ijhilomela, Lower, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. xxv. p. 31 (1900). 



Amalojptila triorbis, Turner, Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr. xxvii. p. 6 (1903). 



Head and tegulae 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. 137. — Elesma subgkmca, 5. \. 



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, 



Hah. N. S. Wales {Darnel), 1 $ type, Newcastle, type fc? 

 triorbis in Coll. Turner. Exp. 34 millira. 



vor,. XI. 2 B 



