HO DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



Palpi fuscous. Antenna? yellow, pectinations fuscous. Thorax 

 light creamy-fuscous, tinted with rose colour anteriorly, with 

 a dense development of grey-white hairs beneath. Abdomen 

 creamy-fuscous. Legs fuscous, femora and tibiae crimson-red, 

 striped and aunulated with ochreous-yellow. Forewings triangu- 

 lar, costa sparingly sinuous, apex produced, rounded; hindmaigin 

 obliquely rounded, light creamy or ochreous-fuscous with a 

 scaicely perceptible rosy tint, and sparsely lightly and thinly 

 pencilled with black, darker and more conspicuous at apical and 

 anal angles ; costal margin reddish-yellow, a row of three smoke- 

 coloured dots, first at J costa, this slightly diffused, second on 

 median at J, and third opposite J of inner margin ; a semilunar 

 black spot on costa at § ; a row of small black dots on veins from 

 opposite § inner margin to near the apex of a fuscous fascia 

 formed of interrupted dots or blotches from opposite inner margin 

 at I to costa just before apex, the blotch near inner margin large, 

 dififused and bordered with fuscous or reddish-black and suffused 

 with rose colour, the next spot smaller, the centre ones smallest, 

 but the spots again become larger toward costa, where there is a 

 rosy sufi'usion filling the apical angle, and with a dark spot on 

 hindmargin neai- apex: cilia dark ochreous-fuscou^?. Undersurface 

 of forewings greenish-ochreous-fuscous finely pencilled with black, 

 apex rosy dotted with white, inner margin rose-tinted. Hindwings 

 light ochreous-fuscous sparsely [)encilled with fine black congre- 

 gated chiefly throughout middle third of wing; costa rosy; cilia 

 as forewings. 



Brisbane (Mr. lllidge), October, 1892. 



This also comes near to Gastrophora, and will, I think, have to 

 be formed into a new genus. 



Group NOCTUINA, Family AGARISTID.E. 



Agarista fluitans, sp.nov. 



9. 35 mm. Head grey, face ashy-grey, with a triangular patch 

 on crown and a spot adjacent to orbit on either side rich velvety 

 black. Palpi black, ashy-grey at base. Antennae black. Thorax 



