174 REVISION or AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA HYPSIDAE, ANTHELIDAE, 



This appears to be a rare species. Tlie ordinary diseal spots are enlarged, 

 the posterior especially, so as to give it, in conjunction with the uniform dark- 

 fuscous colouration and yellowish cilia of both wings, a very distinctive faeies. 

 I suggest that it is a mimic of Nyctemera arnica White. 



(jld.: Crow's Nest, near Toovvoomba, in September; N.S. Wales: Sydney. 



18. Anthela denticulata. , 



Teara denticulata Newm., Trans. Ent. Soc, 1850, p. 283. — Darala hasigera 

 Wlk., Cat. Brit. Mus., xxxii., p. 372.— D. undulata Feld.. Keise Nov., PI. 98, f. 

 11. 



d' 5. 46 — 54 mm. Head and thorax fuscous. Paljii IJ; fuscous. Antennae 

 white; pectinations fuscous. Abdomen fuscous, towards apex mixed with whitish. 

 Legs fuscous; middle and posterior tibiae white at base and apex. Forewings 

 triangular-, costa nearly straight, very slightly sinuate, apex pointed, termen 

 bowed, slightly oblique; fuscous; markings white; a sub-basal angulated trans- 

 verse line; a diseal spot at J and another about middle; a finely crenulate line 

 from costa beyond middle, through, or just posterior to, second diseal spot, 

 slightly curved outwards beneath costa, thence oblique to mid-dorsum; a third 

 line at i, similar to median line, except that its anterior edge only is crenulate, 

 the posterior edge nearly straight; a terminal line more or less crenulate; cilia 

 fuscous. Hindwings with termen gently romided; 6 and 7 connate, 11 absent or 

 weakly developed ; white with fuscous marking's ; a waved transverse line at about 

 i; a crenulate transverse median line; a subterminal band, crenulate posteriorly; 

 cilia fuscous. Underside of both wings similar to upperside of forewings. 



Vic: Melbourne; S. Aust.: Adelaide; W. Aust.: Kalgoorlie. 



19. Anthela ostra. 



Anthela ostra Swin., Trans. Ent. Soc, 1903, p. 447. — A. chrysocrosfa Turn.. 

 Proc. Roy. Soc. QTand., 1915, p. 24. 



c?. 38 mm. Head fuscous; back of crown oolireous. Palpi 2J; fuscous, under- 

 surface ochreous. Antennae pale-ochreous, pectinations fuscous. Thorax fus- 

 cous, bases of patagia ochreous. Abdomen with dense long haire especially 

 posteriorly; fuscous. Legs fuscous; upper surface of posterior tibiae irrorated 

 with ochreous. Forewings triangular, costa straight, apex round-pointed, termen 

 bowed, oblique; fuscous with some ochreous irroration; marking's ochreous; a 

 costal .streak from base, gradually attenuating to about |; a circular diseal spot 

 beneath \ costa, and another rather larger beneath mid costa; a fine, deeply 

 crenulate, subterminal line; ciUa pale-ochreous, bases partly fuscous. Hind-wings 

 with termen rounded; 6 and 7 short -stalked, 11 absent; dark-fuscous; an ochreous 

 diseal dot before middle; a narrow, orange-ochreous, terminal band, deeply in- 

 dented anteriorly, with slight fuscous irroration; cilia ochreous. Underside of 

 forevving-s odireous with some fuscous suffusion, central diseal spot only, and 

 a subterminal series of <lark-fuscous interncural spots; of hindwings as upper 

 side, but with two ochreous diseal spots, at I and \ . the latter larger. 



This species is nearest to .^1. denticulata Newm. 



N. Aust.: Batchelor. Adelaide R. 



20. Anthela asterias. 



Darala asterias Meyr., Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust., 1891, p. 192.—/). 7ini- 

 formis Swin., Cat. Oxf. Mus., i., 1892, p. 210. — Anthela niphumacula Low., 

 Trans. Roy. Soc S. Aust., 1905. (i. 175.— .1. callhpila Low., ih.. p. 175. 



