[Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, 35 (N S), Pt. I., 1922.] 



Art. IV. — Studies in Australian Lepidoptera. 



By a. JEFFERIS TURNER, M.D., F.E.S. 



[Read 20th April, 1922.] 



In this paper I have described a number of species from three- 

 localities, omitting the Geometrites, which are included in another 

 publication. 



(1) From a collection made by Mr. J. A. Kershaw on the Claudie 

 River, in the Cape York Peninsula. This river, which is not marked 

 in most maps, flows into Lloyd Bay to the north of Cape Direction, 

 at about latitude 13 °S. The area chiefly collected over was situated 

 from seven to ten miles inland, and consisted of both open forest 

 and dense tropical rainforest. 



(2) A collection made in Tasmania by Mr. G. H. Hardy. 



(3) Species captured by myself in the luxuriant rainforest and 

 ferntree gullies of the Queensland National Park in the Maclntyre 

 Range, at an altitude of 2000 to 4000 feet. 



I have also taken this opportunity of completing and correct- 

 ing my former revisions of five of the smaller families, the 

 Syntomidae, Uraniadae^ Epiplemidae^ Thyrididae, and Aegeriadae, 

 and have added a revision of the Tineodidae. A few new forms, of 

 which it appears desirable to publish the descriptions, belonging ta 

 other groups, have been also included. 



Fam. SYNTOMIDAE. 



Since the publication of my revision (Proc. Lin. Soc., 1904, 

 N.S.W., p. 834), I have described one new species (Syntomis 

 phaeochyta, ib. 1906, p. 678), and I have now several more. 



Ceryx affinis. 



Ceryx affinis. Roths., Nov. Zool., 1910, p. 429, and 1911, pL 

 iii., fig. 15. Hmps., Cat. Lep. Phal. Suppl. i., p. 4. 



I have not seen this species. It should be recognisable by the* 

 orange abdominal rings being interrupted on dorsum except on pen- 

 ultimate segment. 



N.Q., Kuranda, near Cairns (Dodd). Also from New Guinea. 



Ceryx rhysoptila, n. sp. 

 (^25-30 mm. Head blackish; face and back of crown orange- 

 yellow. Palpi yellow. Antennae blackish; in S" simple, minutely 

 ciliated. Thorax black; tegulae and patagia orange-yellow. Ab- 

 domen black with six orange-yellow rings; tuft black. Legs blackish; 

 femora and tibiae suffused with yeljowish on inner surface; anterior 

 tibiae and tarsi thickened with rough scales, yellow on Inner sur- 



