1068 ON QUEENSLAND AND OTHER AUSTRALIAN MACRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



ScoLiACMA ORTHOTOMA, Mejr. Brisbane ; Frankstone, near 

 Melbourne. 



SCOLIACMA IRIDESCENS, n.Sp. 



^9. 20-22 mm. Head, palpi, antennre and thorax cinnamon- 

 brown. Abdomen grey mixed with cinnamon-brown. Forewings 

 elongate, dilated, cinnamon-brown, irrorated with suffusions of 

 purplish-brown, costa arched, hindmargin rounded ; a suffusion 

 of purplish-brown on costa from i to ^, narrowly so along 

 apical angle, and broadly so on inner margin from i to | for 

 one-third the width of the wing : cilia brownish-grey. Hind- 

 wings light ochreous brown, lightly clouded with scattered smoky- 

 grey ; cilia ochreous-brown. Under surface of fore wing in centre, 

 and of hindwings overlapped by forewings, dark smoky-brown, 

 almost black. 



Brisbane, in deep scrub ; rare. Allied to S. cervina, from 

 which it differs in its iridescent colouring, and in the scant and 

 lighter smoky colouring of under side of wings. 



SCOLIACMA CERVINA, n.Sp, 



(J9. 20-22 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax and abdomen 

 fawn colour. Legs light brown. Forewings elongate, costa gently 

 rounded, hindmargin very obliquely rounded, fawn colour : cilia 

 fawn colour. Hindwings and cilia light ochreous-fuscous. Under 

 surface of forewings to i, and costal half of hindwings to | or 

 nearly to notched apex smoky-black. 



This is by far the darkest species of this genus yet described 

 from Australia. 



Brisbane ; rare. 



TiGRIODES SPLENDENS, n.Sp. 



40 mm. Head orange. Palpi and antennae black. Thorax 

 orange, patagia and dorsal tuft posteriorly blue-black. Abdo- 

 men ochreous-yellow. Legs yellow. Forewings elongate, costa 

 slightly rounded, apex acute, hindmargin rounded, orange- 

 yellow tinted with red ; markings blue-black, costa for 4 black ; 



