14 NEAV SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



Heterochasta lasioplaca, n.sp. 



^. 30 mm. Head, antennse, palpi, thorax, and abdomen fuscous, 

 palpi about 1^, snow-white at base beneath and at apex of ter- 

 minal joint, terminal joint about ^ length of second. Antennal 

 ciliations ^. Abdomen with pairs of dark fuscous spots on seg- 

 ments. Legs ochreous-whitish, banded with fuscous. Forewings 

 elongate-triangular, hindmargin hardly waved, bowed, oblique; 

 dull fuscous-greenish, with numerous waved darker fuscous trans- 

 verse lines; outer edge of basal patch indicated by a moderately 

 thick correlated band, slightly sinuate outwards above middle, 

 from about ^ of costa to' i inner margin; median band formed by 

 two dark fuscous bands of three lines each, separated by a clear 

 snow-white space, becoming light ferruginous on lower |; anterior 

 edge from just beyond f of costa to middle of inner margin; 

 posterior edge from before f of costa to | of inner margin, with 

 a strong sharp projection in middle and a less prominent one 

 above middle, followed throughout more or less by a fine whitish 

 line; a black lunate discal mark in the white space above middle 

 touching anterior edge of band, subterminal and submarginal 

 lines waved, irregular, blackish, a fine blackish hindmarginal 

 line separated into small spots by minute white spots at extremities 

 of veins : cilia ochreous-grey barred with black. Hindwings with 

 the hindmargin rounded; dull leaden becoming paler towards base; 

 cilia as in forewings. 



Brisbane, Queensland; one specimen. Distinct by the hind- 

 wings and snow-white spot of forewings. 



STERRHID5;. 



Sterrha rhodocosma, n.sp. 



(J. 24 mm. Head, face, pal pi, and thorax rosy-carmine, abdomen 

 ■whitish. Antennae ochreous, pectinations at greatest length 2. 

 Legs fuscous, anterior coxae tinged with rosy-carmine, posterior 

 pair ochreous-whitish. Forewings triangular, costa nearly straight, 

 apex rounded, hindmargin obliquely bowed; pale whitish-ochreous, 

 thickly irrorated with rosy-carmine, so as to appear rosy-carmine, 



