BY T. P. LUCAS. 1091 



AbdoQien white, but hairs s]iort, scattered, easily rubbed off, and 

 showing ochreous-brown body colour. Forewings triangular, 

 dilate, with costa rounded, hindmargin obliquely rounded, and 

 inner margin rounded ; snow-white ; raised shining silvery lines 

 give the appearance of corrugations, eight or nine of these stretch 

 from near, but not touching inner border, rising at equal distances 

 along the margin, the first four or five reach to cell, the others 

 diagonally and irregularly reach to just before costa ; the veins 

 are more or less silvered white : cilia snow-white. Hindwings 

 plain snow-white ; cilia snow-white. 



This beautiful species can best be described as imitative of 

 water marked snow-white silk. 



Brisbane, a pair in 1888. 



BOMBYCES, Family SATURNID.^. 



ANTHERiEA INTERMEDIA, n.sp. 



(J. 125-160, 9-130-170mm. Head and palpi red-brown. Antennae 

 brown. Thorax red-brown, collar conspicuously white. Abdomen 

 red-brown. Forewings broadly triangular, costa arched, apical 

 half and apex rounded, hindmargin sinuous and obliquely rounded, 

 red-cinnamon-hroivn. Costal band continuous with collar, attenu- 

 ated to just before apex, slaty-purplish, freely dusted with grey 

 and white on border, browner towards apex ; large black blotch at 

 termination of costal band ; a short bar of chocolate-brown |^ to ^ 

 inch long near \ costa, not touching costal hand, no white on inner 

 side; a larger bar of like colour from \ inner margin for two-thirds 

 across wing to opposite ^ costa ; a double bar from f inner margin 

 to just before the black blotch near apex of costa, inner bar deep 

 chocolate-brown, outer bar slaty or purplish-brown, bars wavy, and 

 space between ochreous-brown ; a circular discal ring occupying 

 middle third between outer bar and costa deep chocolate, finely 

 edged with white on inner margin nearest costa, translucent spot 

 in middle a mere round dot ; a broad hindmarginal ochreous-brown 



