146 DESCRIPTIONS OP NEW AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



bordered with grey-white ; a grey denticulate inconspicuous fascia 

 more or less diffused between this and the hindmargin, and an 

 interrupted hindmarginal line of black dots : cilia fuscous, banded 

 with darker fuscous. Hindwings light fuscous-ochreous, with a 

 diffused dark fuscous hindmarginal border ; cilia ochreous, barred 

 with fuscous. 

 Brisbane; rare. 



Family GONOPTERIDJE. 



Anomis (Gonitis) definata, sp.nov. 



^Q. 28-30 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax and abdomen 

 ochreous-drab. Forewings with costa wavy, apex rounded, acute, 

 hindmargin sinuous, produced to angular projection in middle, 

 light ochreous-drab, with dark fuscous lines, and dusted with dark 

 specks, and crossed by numerous short dark strigulse ; a short line 

 close to base ; a 2nd line from 4 costa, obliquely to J median vein, 

 thence at an angle to J inner margin ; a third line from beyond J 

 costa extends to median vein ; a fourth line from f costa obliquely 

 for a short distance, then bows outward rounding to median 

 vein and thence straight to § inner margin ; a fifth line from J 

 costa runs parallel with hindmargin to J inner margin, and is 

 diffused anteriorly with fuscous shading into ground colour; a dark 

 hindmarginal line : cilia ochreous, fuscous at base. Hindwings 

 reddish-ochreous, lighter ochreous towards base, a dark hind- 

 marginal line ; cilia creamy-ochreous. 



Geraldton ; (Messrs. Meek and Barnard). 



Allied to A. dyima, Meyr., but differs in colour and markings, 

 and has 4th line bowed and straight, which in A. dyima is like 

 ah. 



Family CATEPHIID.E. 



Melipotis collustrans, sp.nov. 



(J9' 36(^-48^ mm. Head fuscous more or less mottled with 



darker fuscous and drab. Palpi with second joint squamose, 



fuscous barred with ocbreous-grey, third joint bar-like, lighter 



fuscous, with two bands of fuscous-grey. Antennae fuscous, finely 



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