ON QUEENSLAND AND OTHER AUSTRALIAN 



MACRO-LEPIDOPTERA, WITH LOCALITIES, AND 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. 



By Thomas P. Lucas, M.R.C.S.E., L.S.A., LR.C.P.Ed. 



In the following paper the classification followed is that laid 

 down in Mr. Mey rick's papers. 



RHOPALOCERA. 



Heteronympha affinis, n.sp. 



(J 9. 45-55 mm. Head black. Palpi brown, white underneath, 

 grey at base. Antennae cinnamon-brown, clavelli darker, tipped 

 with cinnamon-brown. Thorax brown, posteriorly on dorsum rich 

 black hairs, underneath light brown. Abdomen rich brown, with 

 freely scattered black hairs, light brown underneath. Forewings 

 narrowly triangular, costa bowed in middle third, apex rounded, 

 hind margin oblique, slightly wavy, rich cinnamon-brown with a 

 deep black bordering enclosing all the ground colour spots or cells. 

 These cells are as follows, three costal, 1st in 9 sub-lunar, from 

 near costa at h outwardly to centre of wing — in the ^ this is 

 divided transversely through centre by a narrow black line, and 

 the outer half is attenuated as a narrow curved line to near base 

 of wing ; 2nd from | costa elongated diagonally for half the dis- 

 tance toward middle of hind margin; 3rd a rounded spot just 

 before apex ; at the inner angles of 2nd and 3rd blotches is a 

 round mark, white in 9, yellow-brown in (^ ; between this and 

 hind margin is a small ground colour spot, and another immedi- 

 ately below it ; from near base to f inner margin, but divided 



