13-1: DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



more distributed over the fire ground colour as minute specks : 

 cilia ochreous and greyish-black. Hind wings colourless, trans- 

 parent, veins black, hindmargin bordered with fire-colour clouded 

 with black, narrowing to a line on inner border ; cilia black. 



Brisbane ; in scrub. 



Some three years ago I found empty pupa cases projecting from 

 the bark of the Quondong tree {Elceocar'pus grandis), but failed to 

 obtain the perfect insect. Dr. Turner succeeded in capturing 

 seven specimens this year and has courteously given me a pair. 



Group BOMBYCINA, Family ARCTIADJE. 

 NUDARIA. 



A. Head white. 



Fore wings with fuscous-ochreous lines 1. albida. 



B. Head irrorated, or tinted, with darker. 



a. Forewings with entire costal line fus- 



cous-black 2 . ohchhcta. 



b. Forewings without entire costal line 



black. 



1. Forewings without continuous trans- 



verse veins. 



i. (J with subcostal dark fold 3. Barnardi. 



ii. With scattered irregular dots 5. macilenta 



2. Forewings with transverse fascia 



and lines 4. mollis. 



1. NUDARIA ALBIDA^ Walk. 



(J^. 15-18 mm. Head white. Palpi ochreous. Antennae fus- 

 cous-grey. Forewings with costa rounded, hindmargin rounded, 

 creamy-whitOj with light ochreous-fuscous and grey markings ; 

 four pale ochreous-fuscous transverse lines undulate and denticu- 

 late ; the first from \ costa to i inner margin, is sharply angled 

 and interrupted before middle ; the second from before J costa to 

 ^- inner margin ; the third from f costa to 4 inner margin ; the 

 fourth extending from | costa to f hindmargin, but interrupted 



