STUDIES IN AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 1 33 
Antennae whitish ; pectinations 8. Forewings broadly triangular, 
costa moderately arched to 4-, then very strongly arched to apex, 
apex rectangular, termen slightly bowed, scarcely oblique ; ochreous, 
brownish, fuscous, or reddish ; a small pale circular spot in disc 
at ± and at ± from costa ; costa sometimes with some whitish suffu- 
sion ; indications of a dark wavy transverse line before discal spot; 
four or five wavy dark lines beyond middle, often obsolete; a 
strongly marked line from f costa to -f- dorsum, slightly bisinuate, 
closely preceded by a parallel fainter line ; a strongly and coarsely 
crenated subterminal line, the space between it and preceding line 
sometimes suffused with grey; cilia concolorous. Hindwings with 
termen round, tornal angle rather prominent; colour as forewings 
but paler ; a nearly straight transverse line before middle, some- 
times double; two parallel straight postmedian dark lines; sub- 
terminal line as in forewings ; cilia concolorous. 
9- 116-144 mm. Usually paler in colour. Forewings narrower, 
with apex acute and produced. 
Type in Coll. Turner. 
N.Q. Evelyn Scrub, near Herberton, from October to 
January ; a series bred by Mr. F. P. Dodd, to whom we owe most 
of our knowledge of the rich lepidopterous fauna of the Cairns- 
Herberton district. Some years ago Mr. Dodd sent me two female 
examples taken at Kuranda. 
An allied species, E. sfyx, B-Bak., Nov. Zool. 1908, p. 176 ? is 
found in New Gruinea. 
Gen. AXIOCLETA nov. 
[a&oKXrjTos, worth choosing ] 
Tongue absent. Palpi short, hairy, porrect. Antennas bipec- 
tinate to apex in both sexes, pectinations long in short in 9- 
Head and thorax densely hairy. Abdomen in $ with a short tuft, 
in 9 with a large rounded tuft. Posterior tibiae with two pairs of 
spurs. Forewings with vein 2 from f, 3 from well before angle, 
4 from angle, 5 from middle of cell, 6 from upper angle, 7, 8, 9, 10 
stalked, 9 from 8 before 7, 11 from f , free. Hindwings with 2 
from -f , 3 from well before angle, 4 from angle, 5 from middle of 
cell, 6 and 7 stalked from upper angle, 8 closely approximated to 
cell near base but not connected. 
Type A. perisema. Closely allied to drcturus, Curtis, in which 
8 of hindwings anastomoses strongly with the cell. 
