76 ANNALS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
Gen. BALANTIUCHA nov. 
[fiaXavTLovxos, having a pocket.] 
Tongue present. Palpi short (not exceeding 1), slender, 
smooth-scaled, porrect. Antennae of $ with broad, unipectinate, 
closely appressed pectinations. Forewings with 5 from slightly 
below upper angle of cell, 6 and 7 stalked, 8 and 9 stalked, 11 free, 
sometimes approximated on a point with 12. Hindwings in $ 
rounded, with dorsal area rolled over to form a glandular pocket, 
veins 2 and 3 lost in pocket ; in 9 with small terminal teeth on 
veins 4 and 7 ; 3 and 4 connate, 6 and 7 connate, 8 in both sexes 
widely separate from cell. 
Possibly 11 and 12 may sometimes anastomose. 
Type Dirades platyphylla, Turn. 
BALANTIUCHA PLATYPHYLLA. 
Dirades platyphylla, Turn., Tr. RS.S.A. 1903, p. 21. 
N.Q. Kuranda, 2 ; Q. Brisbane, 2, 3, 4. The locality Thursday 
Island was an error based on misidentification. 
BALANTIUCHA MICROTHYRIS n. sp. 
IfxiKpoOvpLs, with a small window.] 
(J 9. 21-26 mm. Head and face dark-grey; fillet broadly 
white. Palpi dark-grey; inner surface of second joint whitish. 
Antenna? grey. Thorax and antennae grey. Legs whitish- 
ochreous ; anterior pair grey. Forewings triangular, costa nearly 
straight, apex rounded, termen nearly straight, oblique ; in (J with a 
triangular fovea near base above internal vein ; whitish-grey finely 
strigulated with darker grey; a semicircular fuscous blotch on 
dorsum beyond middle, better marked in $ ; two ochreous grey 
lines from costa at ^ and f , the anterior obliquely outwards, the 
posterior outwardly curved, both lost in mid-disc ; a submarginal 
series of fine fuscous annules, more or less edged with whitish; 
cilia whitish-grey. Hindwings coloured as forewings, with a broad 
median darker fascia best marked in 5- 
This species might be readily confused with the preceding if it 
were not for the fovea on forewing of $ . It might be the same 
