144 DESCRIPTIONS OF NliVV AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



blue or iron-grey freely dusted with black ; a ligliter discal shade 

 at ^ approaching costa, more or less conspicuous ; in some speci- 

 mens a small velvety black dot at J near inner margin ; a fine 

 ochreous line 4 costa to f inner margin, bordered anteriorly by a 

 smoke-coloured band shading into groundcolour, and bounded 

 posteriorly by a reddish band, in a few specimens conspicuously 

 spotted with black ; a narrowly scalloped ochreous terminal line 

 bordered with black and smoky-grey : cilia drab-grey, bordered 

 with smoky-grey. Hindwings reddish-fuscous, with a lighter 

 diffused band at § dividing off a smoky-black hind border ; cilia 

 reddish-fuscous, faintly lined with grey. 



Brisbane. 



Allied to P. Diemenij Gn., but larger, less variable, with fewer 

 markings, and easily known by the rich black collar. 



Family PALINDIID^. 

 HOMODES VIOLACEA, sp.nOV. 



^. 14 mm. Head and thorax creamy-grey tinted with a violet 

 hue. Palpi fuscous. Antennae ochreous-grey. Abdomen creamy- 

 grey anteriorly tinted with violet, posterior segments broadly based 

 with fuscous-grey. Forewings triangular, broadly dilate, costa 

 nearly straight, hindmargin slightly scalloped before middle, pro- 

 minently rounded beyond middle and thence obliquely straight to 

 anal angle ; creamy-grey with darker shades and markings of 

 grey, and tinted with a violet hue ; costal and hindmarginal line 

 continuous, deep fuscous-red; a dot at \ costa, and anotlier imme- 

 diately beyond darker grey ; a median diffused grey fascia with 

 its anterior border darker fuscous-grey, with a black discal spot, 

 and with its posterior border edged by a sinuous denticulate 

 fuscous-grey line suffusing into a creamy-violet hue ; a suffused 

 blotch of grey at J and a second larger suffused blotch at anal 

 angle of hindmargin : cilia fuscous-red. Hindwings as forewings, 

 with a fuscous-grey fascia from before J costa to J inner margin, 

 divided into two lines in costal half by i)atch of groundcolour ; a 

 second linear denticulate fascia from | costa to § inner margin ; a 



