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male simple, minutely ciliated. Thorax and abdomen without 

 crests; thorax smooth beneath. Femora smooth; all tibial 

 spurs present; inner twice as long as outer. Forewings with 

 base of costa rounded; in male without fovea; 2, 3, 4 equi- 

 distant, 5 from middle of cell, 6 from upper angle, 7, 8, 9, 

 10, 11 stalked from considerably before angle, 11 only short- 

 stalked, connected first with 12 and then with stalk of 7, 8, 

 9, 10. Hindwings broad; cell about f ; 5 absent, 6 and 7 

 separate, the latter arising from shortly before angle, 8 con- 

 nected with cell near base, thence diverging. 



A peculiar genus, but probably related to PerideliaSf 

 Turn., Aplochlora, Warr., and Parametrodes, Warr. 



Clepsiphron calycopis, n. sp. 



/caAv/co)7rt9, roseate. 



(S , 20 mm. Head ochreous-grey ; face with some reddish 

 scales; posterior margin of eyes reddish. Palpi ochreous- 

 whitish; second joint barred with reddish in middle and at 

 apex. Antennae whitish-grey. Thorax purplish-grey. 



Abdomen reddish-grey; tuft ochreous-whitish. Legs ochreous- 

 whitish; anterior femora and tibiae reddish tinged; anterior 

 tarsi fuscous tinged. Forewings broadly triangular, costa 

 strongly rounded at base, thence slightly arched, apex rect- 

 angular, costa not oblique, slightly sinuate; purple-fuscous; 

 base of costa purple; an ill-defined darker basal patch; an 

 outwardly curved fuscous line from J costa to dorsum before 

 middle, indistinct towards costa, towards dorsum well defined 

 and mixed with orange; a line from § costa, at first out- 

 wardly curved, but bent inwards and then angled outwards 

 above dorsum, ending on dorsum before tornus, orange be- 

 coming fuscous towards costa ; termen with a narrow, 

 irregularly-indented, yellow margin; cilia pale yellow. Hind- 

 wings with termen wavy and slightly angled on vein 4 ; 

 purple-fuscous, the greater part of disc suffused with reddish 

 and orange with small purple-fuscous strigulae; terminal 

 margin and cilia as forewings. Underside grey with traces of 

 whitish postmedian line, and with whitish terminal margin. 



Northern Queensland : Evelyn Scrub, near Herberton, 

 in January; one specimen received from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 

 Type in Coll. Lyell. 



Gen. PiCROPHYLLA, n. gen. 



7rLKpo(f)v\Xos, with pointed wings. 



Frons with an anterior tuft of scales. Tongue well 

 developed. Palpi rather short, porrect; second joint rough- 

 haired; terminal joint short. Antennae of male simple. 



