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DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN 

 LEPIDOPTERA, WITH NOTES ON SYNONYMY. 



Bv Oswald B. Lower, F.E.S., &c. 



BOMBYCINA. 



LIMA.CODID^. 

 DORATIPHORA BRACHYOPA, 71. Sp. 



(J. 25 mm. Head, palpi, and collar dark reddish, face ochreous. 

 Thorax and abdomen ochreous, tinged with fuscous-reddish, 

 thorax lighter in middle. Antennte ochreous, pectinations at 

 greatest length l^, closely set. Legs deep reddish-fuscous, 

 densely haired. Thorax beneath densely haired with ashy-grey- 

 whitish. Forewings rather short, costa hardly arched, hind- 

 margin somewhat bowed ; dull silvery- whitish, basal two-thirds 

 occupied by a deep reddish patch, somewhat obscure above inner 

 margin, outer edge somewhat convex, with a fine darker fuscous 

 marginal line; this line is continued right round the patch, but 

 causes a sharp indentation above inner margin at § from base; 

 an obscure ochreous discal dot ringed with deep reddish at about 

 § above middle of disc; a fine blackish line from |- of costa to 

 anal angle, strongly dentate on lower |, almost straight on upper 

 fourth; a fine blackish hindmarginal line more or less interrupted 

 on veins : cilia ashy-grey-whitish with a fine obscure darker line. 

 Hindwings reddish-ochreous, with a darker line along hindmargin; 

 cilia as in forewings. 



Cairns, Queensland; two specimens in November. 



SCOLIACMA C?) XANTHODELTA, n.sp. 



^. 20 mm. Head, palpi, collar, and abdomen yellow, abdomen 

 infuscated. Thorax leaden-fuscous. Legs yellowish mixed with 

 fuscous. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa somewhat sinuate 



