258 ON TWENTY NEW SPECIES OP AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



gently rounded, hindmargin gently rounded, rich fuscous-black, 

 with cream-colour bars ; a broad bar from ^ costa to f inner 

 margin, 2nd bar from | costa to just before | hindmargin, where 

 it is bent back on itself and is continued as a circular line round 

 to inner margin to just before anal angle, forming a ring, 

 within which is a sharply-defined black ring formed by the 

 continuation of the hindmarginal line ; this ring contains a large 

 black spot shot with blue and bounded by a black line and a 

 cream-coloured line prolonged at either angle to hindmarginal 

 line : cilia white, with median bar of brown. Hindwings as 

 forewings, a broad white concavo-convex white bar from a base \ 

 to \ costa to a point at | inner margin ; an interrupted submar- 

 ginal white line, a hindmarginal black line ; cilia white, with a 

 suffusion of brown in middle and gradually to anal angle. 



Brisbane to Mackay. 



Allied to G. oculicola, Walk., but altogether a more handsome 

 insect, with broader bands and with a complete ring of rings or 

 ocellus, which is replaced by a semilunar line in G. oculicola ; in 

 the latter there is a creamy-fuscous line from a dot in anal angle 

 to before apex of hindmargin, which cuts off a well-defined piece 

 of groundcolour ; this is absent in G. excellens. 



Grammodes pulcherrima, sp.nov. 



(J9. 26-30 ram. Head fuscous-grey, orbicular rims white. 

 Palpi and antennae fuscous-grey. Thorax iron-grey, with a black 

 collar edged anteriorly with creamy-grey. Abdomen lighter 

 fuscous-grey. Forewings : costa nearly straight, hindmargin 

 gently rounded, fuscous-black, with creamy-white bars ; 1st bar 

 ^ costa to I inner margin, attenuated to a point at costa and 

 hindmargin ; 2nd bar | costa obliquely to opposite f hindmargin, 

 thence sharply angled on itself as a semilunar ring to ^ inner 

 margin, anterior border in costal half bowed toward base ; a white 

 line on costa at ^ with au elongated dot subtended in wing ; a 

 smoky-grey bar or line from near apex of hindmargin to angle of 

 2nd bar, thence diffused as ground colour or orbicular ring, and 



