1098 ON QUEENSLAND AND OTHER AUSTRALIAN MACRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 



as forewings. Undersiirface of all wings creainy-ochreous and 

 covered with shining gold scales. Marginal dots on veins black. 

 Brisbane ; rare ; dense scrub ; November. 



Leucania fumata, n.sp. 



^9. 31-35 mm. Head smoky-grey. Palpi grey. Antenna? 

 brownish-grey. Thorax white, smoky-grey anteriorly. Thorax 

 ochreous- white. Forewings elongate, gradually dilate, with costa 

 gently rounded, hindmai'gin rather obliquely rounded, milk white, 

 shininof, shaded irregularly with smoky-grey ; small brown discal 

 spot near centre of cell, often indistinct ; veins bounding cell, 

 and veins nearing hindmargin smoky-grey : cilia greyish-white. 

 Hindwings grey- white, with broad band of suffused smoke colour 

 on hindmargin, lighter toward anal angle ; cilia as forewings. 



Brisbane ; rare. 



I sent a specimen of this rare moth to Mr. Meyrick, who 

 returned a note, unidentifiable. I presume it became greased in 

 transit, to which it is very liable, and in which condition it would 

 look worn and rubbed. In the fresh series, the shining wings, 

 milky-white forewings shaded with smoke stains as it were, 

 readily distinguish it from any other species with which I am 

 acquainted. 



PYRALIDINA, Family PYRALIDID.E. 

 Balanotis arctandalis, n.sp. 



(J 9. 25-35 mm. Head orange. Palpi black, grey laterally. 

 Antennse ochreous-grey. Thorax green-grey, with two black dots 

 in front, and two diamond-shaped black spots in centre and 

 posteriorly across dorsum. Abdomen ochreous-orange laterally, 

 <yreen-grey on back, with a centre row of diamond spots and a 

 row diagonally with these on either side, black, terminal tuft 

 black with a shade of orange in centre. Legs green-grey and 

 black, posterior pair on upper side orange on coxa? and femora, 



