1090 ON QUEENSLAND AND OTHER AUSTRALIAN MACHO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



■elongate, dilate, costa nearly stright, hindmargin obliquely rounded, 

 cream colour, freely irrorated with silver and sparingly dusted with 

 ochreous-brown ; markings faint, light ochreous-brown ; discal 

 spot near apex of cell small and often indistinct ; a bar or fascia 

 from 4 costa to f inner margin, more distinct in ^ than in 9 ; a 

 sub-marginal denticulate line, united by dentations (sometimes 

 indistinctly marked) with a marginal line, and enclosing ground 

 colour dots : cilia cream colour. Hindwings cream colour in (J, 

 light brown in ^, a faint suffusion near base, a band from J costa 

 to J inner margin, a sub-marginal and a marginal line on hind- 

 margin light ochreous-brown; the sub-marginal and marginal lines 

 are connected by short lines and enclose spots of ground colour; 

 these marks are faint and more of a light brown in 9 ; the long 

 Jiairs on inner margin are light brown ; cilia cream colour. 

 Duaringa, Queensland. (Mr. Barnard). 



Teara protrahens, n.sp. 



(J 9. 27-30 mm. Head, palpi, antennae ochreous-brown. Thorax 

 -ochreous-brown. Abdomen ochreous-brown, base of each segment 

 black, terminal tuft ochreous-brown. Forewings elongate-tri- 

 angular, with costa rounded, hindmargin very obliquely rounded, 

 grey irrorated with brown and black scales ; very large discal 

 spot beyond J and near costa, creamy colour with centre shade of 

 brown ; a sub-marginal row of eight cream colour spots and 

 interrupted cream colour marginal line, in ^ a line, in (J a broader 

 band and ochreous : cilia ochreous and brown. Hindwings 

 smoky -black : in ^ cream colour row of hindmarginal spots, 

 reduced in 9 to three small ochreous dots next apical angle ; cilia 

 in (J ochreous, in ^ smoky-brown and ochreous. The $ is in 

 general appearance lighter than 9. 



Brisbane; rare. 



PORTHESIA (EUPHROSTIS) COLLUCENS, n.Sp. 



(J9. 26-34 mm. Head snow-white. Palpi ochreous. Antennae 

 mid rib white, pectinations ochreous-grey. Thorax snow-white. 



