124: ANNALS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 
Gen. ARESCOPTERA nov. 
[dpeo-K07rre/305, with pleasing wings.] 
Frons flat. Tongue well developed. Palpi slender, cylindrical, 
ascending, moderately long but not reaching vertex, apex truncate. 
Antennae in $ with moderately long ciliations. Maxillary palpi 
short, filiform. Forewings with 4 and 5 connate, immediately 
diverging, 7, 8, 9 stalked, 10 and 11 free. Hind wings with 4 and 5 
connate, immediately diverging, 7 anastomosing with 8 for some 
distance. 
In structure this approaches Persicoptera, but in that genus 11 
anastomoses with 12, and the palpi are much shorter, with second 
joint considerably thickened. 
ARESCOPTERA IDIOTYPA n. sp. 
\_L$ioTV7ros, with peculiar markings.] 
(J. 14-15 mm. Head whitish. Face whitish with a transverse 
fuscous line near upper edge. Palpi 1^ ; whitish, apices of joints 
fuscous. Antennae whitish ; ciliations in $ 2. Thorax whitish. 
Abdomen dark-fuscous mixed with whitish. Legs ochreous- whitish 
irrorated, and tarsi annulated, with dark-f useous ; anterior coxae 
pinkish-tinged. Forewings triangular, costa straight to near apex, 
then strongly arched, apex rounded, termen slightly bowed, oblique ; 
whitish ; a large pale-grey basal patch, posterior edge sharply 
defined, indented below middle, from f costa to | dorsum; a dark- 
fuscous, rather large, apical spot; a rounded grey terminal blotch, 
toward edge suffused with dark-fuscous ; a dark-fuscous discal dot 
beneath mid-costa ; an interrupted fuscous terminal line ; cilia 
whitish with some fuscous scales. Hindwings with termen gently 
rounded ; pinkish- white ; a fuscous postmedian transverse line, 
twice sinuate ; an interrupted fuscous terminal line; cilia whitish 
with some fuscous bars, apices pinkish. Underside similar, but 
forewings suffused with fuscous, with a whitish subapical bar from 
costa. 
Type in Coll. Turner. 
Q. Eumundi, near Nambour, 10 ; Brisbane. Two specimens. 
