Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland Volume 18-19 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...1887, p. 188. Q., Helidon. ARNATULA TYMPANOPHORA, H. Sp. Tv/j.iravo(t)opoi, bearing a tympanum or drum. $ 22 TTTH, . Head and thorax whitish mixed with grey. Labial palpi fuscous finely irrorated with whitish; second joint in $ dilated and considerably exceeding vertex. Maxillary palpi not visible in type but probably brush-like and concealed in second joint of labial palpi. Antennae brown-whitish; in $ without process from basal joint, simple, moderately ciliated (1). Abdomen whitish irrorated with dark-fuscous, towards base suffused with pale brownish. Legs whitish irrorated with dark-fuscous; tarsi dark-fuscous annulated with whitish. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa gently arched, apex rounded, termen rounded, oblique; in $ with a small glandular thickening preceded by a tuft of scales on mid-costa, beneath this in disc is a depressed, oblong, thinly scaled, translucent area, which on under surface is preceded by a tuft of darkgrey scales; whitish-grey with scattered dark-fuscous scales; costal tuft and a spot beneath it in disc dark-fuscous; a very faint outwardly curved dark-fuscous postmedian line from f costa to f dorsum; cilia whitish mixed with fuscous. Hindwings with termen rounded; grey; towards base whitish; cilia whitish, with a median fuscous line towards apex. Sir Geo. Hampson suggests that this may be the $ of the proceeding, but from the description this does not appear likely. Type in Coll. Turner. Q., Eumundi, near Nambour, in November; one specimen. Gen. 26. Spectratrota. Spectratrota, Warr., A.M.N.H. (6) vii., p. 426 (1891). Hmps., Tr. E.S. 1896, p. 462. SPECTRATROTA FIMBRIALIS. Spectratrota fimbrialis, Warr., A.M.N.H. (6) vii. p. 427 (1891). N.Q., Townsville; Q., Brisbane, Toowoomba, Dalby, Warwick; T. Hobart. Gen. 27. Heterobella, .