1084 ON QUEENSLAND AND OTHER AUSTRALIAN MACRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



scales ; semicircular spot in centre of inner margin creamy-ochre- 

 ous, a second spot irregularly rhombic obliquely from 1st, and 

 touching costa fuscous-grey, often indistinct ; in some specimens 

 two small creamy dots on inner margin at J and just before anal 

 angle : cilia fuscous. Hindwings orange, bordered with brown 

 fascia, deep at apical angle but attenuated to a line to just before 

 anal angle ; cilia grey. 

 Brisbane. 



AsuRA LYDIA, Don. Brisbane ; Melbourne. 



AsuRA CERViCALis, Walk. Brisbane ; and Victoria near the 

 coast. 



AsuRA AURATA, var. 



This appears to be a climatic variety of A. cervicalis ; it is 

 smaller, and while the southern type is intensely black this i.^ 

 intensely orange. In a large series the markings, though some- 

 what variable, are, relatively speaking, alike in the two types. 



Spilosoma Brisbanensis, n.sp. (included with S. fibscinida,Wdi\k.), 



(J9. 35-41 mm. Head reddish-fuscous. Palpi and antennae 

 black. Thorax fuscous with central and lateral black stripes from 

 behind collar. Abdomen rose-red, with dorsal, lateral and ventral 

 rows of black spots. Legs black, femora rosy, fuscous above. 

 Forewings, costa slightly rounded, hindmargin rounded ; in ^ 

 ochreous, in ^ fuscous ; markings black, a well defined bar on 

 basal third, in some specimens filling basal half of costa ; discal 

 spot near costa at |^, a black line on inner side of lower median 

 vein occupying middle third very narrow in ^, in some ^ speci- 

 mens duplicated, in a very few trebled ; a narrow bar from near 

 base close to and parallel to inner margin, interrupted in the third 

 fourth, and often only a dot in 9 in basal half ; near 4 costa are 

 two small contiguous spots, and just below opposite to median line 

 are two other smaller dots ; from apex to near angle of hindmargin 



