44 NEW AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA 



A species of doubtful affinity, easily known by the metallic 

 abdominal crests. 



Elphos hypocallistis, n.sp. 



^. 64 mm. Head, palpi, legs, thorax, antennse and abdomen 

 dark fuscous, posterior tibise somewhat swollen. Antennae 

 bipectinated to apex, greatest length 4. Thorax with suffused 

 dark fuscous anterior band. Forewings elongate-triangular ; 

 hindmargin waved, rounded, dull whitish, almost wholly obscured 

 with, spots and transverse waved lines causing an appearance of 

 being wholly fuscous; a strongly waved dark fuscous line from ^ 

 costa to ^ inner margin becoming double posteriorly on lower 

 half; a second similar line from before middle of costa to ^ inner 

 margin, angulated strongly outwards below costa and containing 

 a larger darker suffused discal spot in angulation; a third very 

 strongly waved double on upper |, from about f costa to inner 

 margin close beyond termination of previous line, the ground 

 colour more prominent on interspace ; a fourth strongly waved 

 line from costa at ^ to anal angle, becoming double on lower |^; a 

 large ochreous-whitish apical patch containing a suffused triangular 

 spot of fuscous on costa and several fine fuscous dots; a hind- 

 marginal row of dark fuscous lunules : cilia whitish with a 

 median lunular fuscous line. Hindwings with hindmai^gin 

 strongly waved; lines as in forewings but mixed with light ferru- 

 ginous; a suffused fuscous discal dot at 'i from base; hindmarginal 

 lunules and cilia as in forewings. Porewings beneath ochreous- 

 whitish mixed with fuscous on costa and basal third ; a large 

 fuscous discal dot at about middle; a very Inroad fuscous band, 

 anterior edge from | of costa to anal angle, posterior edge from 

 ■I costa to hindmargin above middle. Hindwings beneath dark 

 fuscous; a large bright orange-red cuneiform patch from base to 

 middle, with a dark fuscous discal spot at posterior extremity; a 

 suffused whitish-ochreous spot at apex. 



Mackay, Queensland; two specimens {$ and $) in December. 



