66 ANNALS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
apex. Underside of forewings grey ; of hindwmgs wliitisli with 
discal spot and large terminal blotch dark-fuscous. 
Type in Coll. Lyell. 
V. Melbourne, from Mr. E. Anderson's collection. 
EUPLEXXA ASBOLGDES n. sp. 
[dcr/?oXco87ys, Sooty.] 
9- 36 mm. [Head rubbed. Antennae and palpi broken.] 
Thorax blackish with a few whitish-grey scales. Abdomen fuscous ; 
crests dark-f uscous. Legs fuscous. Forewings elongate, costa 
slightly arched, apex rounded, termen obliquely rounded, crenulate ; 
blackish with intensely black lines and irroration ; orbicular large, 
8-shaped, upper segment larger, outlined in black ; reniform oval, 
outlined with black and whitish, with a central ochreous-whitish 
spot ; subterminal line preceded by a diffuse patchy whitish irrora- 
tion very irregular in form ; cilia blackish with a pale basal line. 
Hindwmgs with termen gently rounded, crenulate ; fuscous ; 
towards base whitish. Underside fuscous ; basal half of hind wings 
whitish with a dark-fuscous discal spot. 
The blackish coloration varied by white irroration, which 
recalls to mind the Greometrid Melanodes anthracitaria, Grn., is 
evidently protective, being adapted to blackened tree-trunks necked 
with particles of white ash. 
Type in Coll. Lyell. 
W.A. Kelmscott, in September; one specimen received from 
Mr. G-. A. Berthoud. 
ARIATHISA OPHIOSEMA n. sp. 
[ocfiioo-rjfAos, serpent-marked.] 
(J. 32 mm. Head and palpi brownish-fuscous. Antennas 
fnscous, towards base whitish; in $ moderately ciliated (1) in tufts. 
Thorax dark-fuscous ; teguke brownish-fuscous. Abdomen fuscous. 
Legs fuscous with some whitish irroration. Porewings elongate, 
costa nearly straight, apex rounded, termen obliquely rounded ; 
fuscous tinged with brownish ; lines blackish ; a line from base of 
