266 ON TWENTY NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 

 HOM^OSOMA DELINEATA, sp.nov. 



^$. 14-24 mm. Head grey- white, in some specimens a fuscous 

 spot on crown, in others minute scattered fuscous dots. Palpi 

 fuscous. Antennae fuscous- drab. Thorax and abdomen grey- 

 white. Forewings elongate, costa rounded, hindmargin rounded, 

 grey-white, dusted or more or less diffused with grey, and spotted 

 with fuscous dots, well marked or more or less obscure ; costal 

 border fuscous, darker in apical third, the fuscous colour becoming 

 more diffused at apex ; a first line of two dots, the one at ^ and 

 near inner border, the second opposite to it on median vein ; a 

 dot in middle of wing at ? ; a second line of seven dots with 

 interposed dashes from ^ costa to opposite f inner border ; in 

 some specimens there is a more or less distinct fuscous line 

 between the inner marginal dots ; a submarginal line or diffusion 

 of grey dashes ; a hindmarginal row of fuscous-grey dots : cilia 

 grey. Hindwings grey, veins smoky -grey; submai-ginal and hind- 

 marginal lines of fuscous-grey inclose a narrow band of light 

 fuscous ; cilia as forewings. 



Brisbane ; rare. 



