142 DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



margin rountled, dusky ochreous very finely dusted with smoky- 

 grey and a number of smoke-coloured dots ; a row of three 

 smoke-coloured dots, one on costa at J, the other two at equal 

 distances between this and inner margin at ^, a dot on costa at §, 

 a row of eight dots from near costa at | to J of inner margin ; a 

 hindmarginal lighter groundcolour line bounded anteriorly by a 

 row of minute dots and posteriorly by a band finely barred with 

 short smoky-fuscous lines : cilia ochreous. Hindwings dusky 

 ochreous ; cilia light ochreous with a smoky-fuscous band. On 

 the undersurface the forewings are ochreous, finely dusted with 

 smoky-fuscous, with a smoky-fuscous suffused median line termi- 

 nated by a broad smoky-fuscous band at |. The undersurface of 

 the hindwings is as in forewings, the broad band being continuous 

 with that of forewicgs ; there is also a very conspicuous smoky- 

 fuscous discal spot. 



Melbourne ; one specimen. 



Calamia suffusa, sp.nov. 



(J. 38 mm. Head ochreous-fuscous, eyes chocolate colour. 

 Palpi darker fuscous at base and tips, shaded to ochreous in 

 centre. Antennae ochreous-fuscous. Legs darker fuscous, ochreous 

 on undersurface. Thorax ochreous-fuscous, becoming darker pos- 

 teriorly. Abdomen ochreous-fuscous, with a darker fuscous blotcli 

 anteriorly on dorsum of 1st segment, and narrow blotches laterally 

 on hind segments. Forewings with costa gently rounded, hind- 

 margin rounded, ochreous-fuscous; veins prominent, finely lined 

 with light ochreous, shar{)ly bordered with red-ochreous, which is 

 suffused to borders of interspaces; costa finely lined with ochreous: 

 cilia fuscous, margined with ochreous. Hindwings ochreous-fus- 

 cous, lighter toward inner margin, veins finely lined with light 

 ochreouSj bordered and suffused over interspaces with smoky- 

 fuscous ; cilia light ochreous, suffused toward apex with darker 

 fuscous. The undersurface of the forewings is dark smoky-fuscous, 

 excepting a narrow median band and a narrow bordering which 

 are ochreous; cilial band smoky-fuscous. The undersurface of the 

 hindwings is very light ochreous, and is dusted with fuscous over 



