202 N0CTUIDJ3, 



points just before termen. Underside of fore wing strongly suffused 

 with crimson except inner area ; hind wing slightly suffused with 

 crimson. 



H(th. Japan, Kiushiu {Leech), 1 $, Tokio (Fenton), 1 (S type, 

 Yokohama {Pryer), 3 S . Exp. 20 millim. 



Genus PEPERITA, nov. 



1 ype, P. molt/lxlopasia. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaoiiiug about to 

 vertex of bead, moderately fringed with hair in front and behind towards 

 extremity, the 3rd joint minute, porrect ; frons smooth; eyes large, round; 

 antetmte of male with fasciculate cilia ; thorax clothed with liair and s-'caies 

 mixed, and without crests ; tibiie moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen 

 with dorsal series of crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen 

 evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 

 4 from angle of cell ; 5 nearly fully developed from just below middle of disco- 

 cellulars; G, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



5313. Peperita molybdopasta. 



Erastroides molybdopasta. Turner, Tr. R. Soc. S. Austr. xxxii. p. 69 (1908). 



Head and thorax ochreous grey mixed with black scales tipped 

 with silver ; palpi, fore legs, and tarsi blackish ; abdomen ochreous 

 grey irrorated with black, the crests black tip[)ed with silver. Fore 

 wing ochreous grey irrorated with black and a few silver scales, and 

 with basal, antemedial and medial black patches on costa irrorated 

 with silver ; an indistinct oblique antemedial black line ; a diffused 

 black discoidal p.ilch with some silver scales on it; a sinuous 

 black line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmcdial area 

 with black streaks on the veins and white points with black between 



Fig. 44. — Feperiia molybdojKista, cf. |. 



them on costa, traces of a whitish subterminal line excurved at 

 middle ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia chequered ochreous 

 and black. Hind wing ochreous grey irrorated with black and a 

 few silver scales ; indistinct minutely waved medial, postmedial, 

 and subterminal lines ; a punctiform black terminal line ; cilia 

 ochreous with a black line near tips; the underside grey irrorated 

 and suffused with brown, a slight discoidal lunule, curved medial 

 line and diffused subterminal band. 



Hab. Queensland, Kuranda (Dodd), 2 d", 1 5. Ea:p. 18-20 

 millim. Type f in Coll. Turner. 



