380 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTEHA^ 



ration; a double incompletely developed post-median line from posterior edge 

 of costal blotch to two-thirds dorsum; an iiTegnlarly waved subterminal line; 

 cilia whitish mixed with brownish. Hindwings with termen rounded; pale- 

 brown; a gTeenish apical blotch, its centre occupied by a large fuscous-brown 

 spot; cilia brownish with obscure whitish bars, on dorsum whitish. Underside 

 uniform pale-brown. 



N. Qland: Kuranda near Cairns in November and March; two specimens, 

 of which the c? is in Coll. Lyell, received from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



35. Syntypistis soiera, n.sp. 

 o-Kiepos, shaded. 



2. 50-53 mm. Head and thorax fuscous. Palpi 1; whitish-brown, external 

 surface fuscous. Antennae with long pectinations, apical one-fifth simple; fus- 

 cous. Abdomen fuscous, underside whitish-brown. Legs whitish-brown irro- 

 rated with fuscous. Forewings triangular, costa moderately arched, apex rounded, 

 termen bowed, oblique; whitish-brown with fuscous suffusion causing darker and 

 paler markings; a dark subcostal streak to one-fourth; a dark line from one- 

 fourth costa to one-fourth dorsum; immediately followed by a pale, circular, 

 dark-centred median spot; two large pale spots with darker centres beneath 

 costa about middle, first nearly circular, second closely approximated to first, 

 transversely oval; some dark suffusion between these and dorsum; a broadly 

 suffused, ill-defined, dark, post-median line; a fine, blackish, wavy, submarginal 

 line, not reaching costa; cilia fuscous mixed with whitish-brown. Hindwings 

 with termen gently rounded; pale-fuscous; cilia pale-fuscous. 



N.W. Aust. : Wyndham; two specimens received from Mr. L. J. Newman. 

 Gen. 17. H o p l i t i s. 



Boplitis, Hb., Verz., p. U7.—Telecliia, Turn., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 

 1903, p. 53. 



Head shortly rough-haired. Tongue very short, nearly obsolete. Palpi 

 short, hairy, porreet. Antennae in both sexes bipectinate, towards apex simple. 

 Posterior tibiae with two pairs of spurs. Forewing-s with no areole, 6, 7, 8, 9, 

 10 stalked, 10 arising before 7. Hindwings with 5 from above middle of cell, 

 6 and 7 stalked, 12 approximated and sometimes connected with cell before 

 middle, thence approximated to near its end. 



Type, H. milhauseri. Fab. from Europe. 



36. HOPLITIS CYDISTA. 



Teleclita cydista, 'I'urn., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1903, p. 53. 



This species is closely allied to H. strigata Moore from India. 



N. Qland: Townsville. 



Gen. 18. C e r u r a. 



Cerura, Schrank, Fauna Boica, ii., pt. ii., p. 155. 



Tongue obsolete. Palpi very short, hairy, porreet. Antennae pectinate to 

 apex in both sexes. Posterior tibiae without middle-spurs. Forewings with 

 second anal prolonged towards dorsum after anastomosing with first anal ; 5 from 

 above middle of cell, 6 from end of areole, separate, connate, or short-stalked 

 with 7, 7, 8, 9 stalked, 10 separate, connate, or even short-stalked with them. Hind- 

 wings with 5 from middle of cell, 6 and 7 stalked, 12 approximated and some- 

 times connected with cell about middle. 



Type, C. furcula Schrank from Europe. 



