STUDIES IN AUSTRALIAN LETIDOPTEBA. 99 
Abdomen orange-red tinged with rosy. Legs orange-red tinged 
with rosy ; anterior femora and tarsi fuscous above, beneath white 
with some rosy scales ; a large median snow-white spot on upper 
surface of anterior tibiae ; anterior tarsi tawny-fuscous middle and 
posterior tarsi fuscous, apices of all tarsal joints snow- white. Fore- 
wings triangular ; costa nearly straight, apex obtuse, termen bowed, 
slightly oblique ; orange-red, with numerous pale-fuscous transverse 
strigula?, which form a suffused subcostal streak for about f ; cilia 
orange-red, apices rosy, towards tornus extreme apices snow-white. 
Hindwings with termen bowed; as forewings ; dorsal cilia very 
dense and rosy-tinged. Underside similar, but with subcostal and 
dorsal rosy suffusion in forewings, and an extensive rosy suffusion 
in hindwings covering dorsal half of disc. 
Type in Coll. Lyell. 
N.A. Fort Darwin, in January ; one specimen received from 
Mr. F. P. Dodd. 
Gen. TttOPHOESSA nov. 
[rpo(f>o€L?, stout.] 
Frons with a rounded projection. Palpi obliquely ascending; 
second joint thickened by dense appressed scales, long, reaching 
nearly to vertex ; terminal joint short, stout, obtuse. Antenna? of (J 
simple, naked. Thorax and abdomen stout. Posterior tibia? with 
long dense hairs. Forewings with 9 and 10 stalked. Hindwings 
with 5 from near lower angle of cell, 7 from above upper angle, 
closely approximated to 8 soon after origin. 
TR0PH0ESSA DAPHXENA n. sp. 
[<W/>oivos, reddish, tawny. j 
34-3(3 mm. Head and palpi purple-fuscous. Antenna? 
pale - fuscous. Thorax reddish, anteriorly ochreous - fuscous. 
Abdomen reddish with some fuscous and ochreous-whitish scales. 
Legs purple-fuscous; tarsi fuscous with whitish-ochreous annula- 
tions. Forewings triangular, costa nearly straight, apex obtuse, 
termen very strongly bowed, oblique ; reddish-ochreous or tawny 
with fine transverse fuscous strigula? ; beneath mid-disc a group of 
two or more circular hyaline spots bare of scales, better developed 
in 9 ; cilia fuscous with a crimson sub-basal line. Hindwings with 
