250 ON TWENTY NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



Pelobrochis, Meyr., MS., gen.nov. 



Tongue weak ; antennae in ^ bipectinated throughout ; palpi 

 moderate, loosely haired ; forewings with 7 and 8 out of 9, 11 

 anastomosing with 1 2 ; hind wings with 3 and 4 stalked, 6 and 7 

 stalked, 8 from f. 



Allied to Nudaria. 



Pelobrochis rava, Lucas. 



This species was provisionally described by me under the genus 

 Scaeodora [P.L.S.N.S. W. Vol. iv. (ser. 2), 27th Nov. 1889]. 

 Meyrick has confirmed my opinion there expressed and estab- 

 lished for it a new genus. 



Family LIPARID.^. 



Artaxa lucifuga, Isp.nov., or a very wide variety of 

 A. chrysophcea, Walk. 



(J. 17-20 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen ferruginous- 

 fulvous. Antennae fulvous, pectinations fuscous. Forewings 

 oblong ohovate, costa gently rounded, hindmargin obliquely 

 rounded, ferruginous-fulvous tending to orange-brown ; two 

 faintly-marked ochreous wavy transverse lines at ^ and |, but 

 in most specimens hidden by ground-colour diffusion : cilia 

 ochreous-ferruginous. Hindwiiigs smoky black ; cilia as fore- 

 wings. 



Brisbane ; at light. 



I sent this to Meyrick, who believed it to be a form of A. 

 chrysophoba. I have taken eight or nine specimens at light ; they 

 are constant and do not vary : the forewings are elongate-obovate, 

 and not triangular, and the hindwings are black. I have not 

 been able to refer any females to this species. It is very much 

 smaller than A. chrysophma, and a more prim, less lax-looking 

 insect. I found the tyj)ical form of A. chrysophcea abundant at 

 Cooktown, and again at Eumundi, 70 miles N.N.W. of Brisbane, 



