BY THOMAS P. LUCAS. 253 



with green to apex ; an ochreous-white line from J inner margin 

 is bent outwardly on itself at right angles to form a rhomboid 

 pocket, thence broadly dentate to opposite costa at § ; a faint 

 fuscous discoidal spot near median vein opposite 1 costa ; a 2nd 

 rounded denticulate line from ^ costa to ^ inner margin ; hind- 

 marginal line white : cilia white, tinted with purple-grey, but too 

 irregularly to form bands. Hindwings coloured as forewings, a 

 few faint ill-defined crenulate greenish-ochreous lines ; a con- 

 spicuous black discal spot ; cilia white, with a median band of 

 purple-grey. Undersurface of all wings with conspicuous fuscous 

 discal spot, and a dentate band of blue-green, bordered by white, 

 running from | costa of forewings to | inner margin of hind- 

 wings ; inner border of forewings and of hindwings freely dusted 

 with white ; an interrupted row of black hindmarginal dots ; 

 cilia of all wings banded by a fuscous-purple line of detached 

 arches. 



Eumundi, Queensland ; one specimen. 



Unfortunately the ants ate the dorsum of abdomen and the 

 crown of head and face while on setting board. 



Family HYDRIOMENIAD.E. 



ASTHENA PELLUCIDA, Sp.nOV. 



9. 27 mm. Head silver-white, face ochreous-fuscous. Palpi 

 silvery-fuscous. Antennae ochreous-fuscous, basal portion silver- 

 white. Thorax silver-white. Abdomen silver-white, with a pale 

 fuscous-green spot on either side of anterior segments. Forewings 

 triangular, costa gently rounded, hindmargin bowed, oblique, 

 silver- or pearly-white, iridescent ; about thirteen transverse 

 greyish-green lines ; 1st and 2nd near base wavy dentate, 3rd 

 and 4th at equal distances beyond, straighter, once or twice 

 denticulate, 5th wider, composed of two lines interlacing and 

 diffused from I costa to J inner margin, 6th and 7th at equal 

 distances with others, dentate, a discal spot at ^, one-third from 

 costa, a band of three lines, 8th, 9th, and 10th parallel with 

 hindmargin, dentate and more or less diflused into a fascia at | 



