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POECILASTHENA THALASSIAS, Meyr. 



The male of this species has a very large extrusible tuft 

 of fuscous hairs on the underside of the apex of the abdomen. 

 This will serve to distinguish it from A. pulchraria; A. 

 halioloma, Turn., has also a smaller, stiffer, less woolly tuft 

 in the same situation. 



POECILASTHENA STHENOMMATA, n. Sp. 



o-^evo/x/xaTos, strong-eyed. 



d , 9 , 30-32 mm. Head grey, between antennae whitish ; 

 face fuscous-brown, lower edge whitish. Eyes rounded, in 

 female rather large; in male much enlarged, so that a line 

 drawn from one outer edge to the other is longer than the 

 breadth of the thorax. Palpi in female small, in male 

 minute; grey- whitish. Thorax grey mixed with whitish. 

 Abdomen whitish with grey irroration. Legs ochreous- whitish. 

 Forewings triangular, costa slightly arched, middle portion 

 nearly straight, apex acute, termen bowed, oblique, sub- 

 dentate; whitish with dull-greenish markings, thinly scaled; 

 costa with numerous grey spots, which form the commence- 

 ment of greenish transverse lines, more or less undulating ; a 

 basal patch of three or four close-set lines ; a median white 

 band containing two fine interrupted lines, succeeded by a 

 dark-fuscous discal dot beneath mid-costa; beyond this is an 

 undulating greenish fascia containing white dots on veins; 

 terminal area whitish with two or three undulating, greenish, 

 transverse lines; a fine fuscous terminal line interrupted on 

 veins; cilia grey-whitish. Hindwings with termen rounded, 

 dentate, a stronger acute tooth on vein 4 ; as forewings, but 

 base whitish. 



The enlarged eyes of the male is a very exceptional 

 character. 



North Queensland : Evelyn Scrub, near Herberton, in 

 January; three specimens received from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 

 New South Wales: Mount Gregson, Liverpool Range, in 

 March; one female, in Coll. Lyell. 



POECILASTHENA XYLOCYMA, Meyr. 



New South Wales : Moruya, in October ; one female 

 specimen corresponding well with a female from Western 

 Australia (Waroona) in May, in Coll. Lyell. Also from 

 Victoria : Melbourne, Beaconsfield. 



POECILASTHENA PANAPALA, n. Sp. 



TravaTTttAos, all -tender. 



(S , 24 mm. ; 9 > 28 mm. Head brownish-grey, anteriorly 

 broadly white ; face dark fuscous. Palpi whitish ; terminal 



