148 DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



Family OPHIDERID^. 



Othreis (Ophideres) iridescens, sp.nov. 



(J. 65 mm. Crown of head golden-yellow, forehead purple- 

 fuscous, face vermilion-orange. Palpi with second joint squamose, 

 orange-yellow on inner side, purplish-fuscous on outer side, with 

 a line of blue in centre, and narrowly bordered with fuscous-yellow 

 at base ; third joint narrowly club-shaped, fuscous, club fuscous- 

 black tipped with yellow. Antennre fuscous-grey. Thorax fuscous, 

 with a yellow collar, divided into three by a vermilion band, 

 narrowed on dorsum, posteriorly orange-yellow. Abdomen yellow, 

 with long orange hairs, caudal segment fuscous-black, lighter at 

 tip. Legs fuscous, anterior tibiae with a rich yellow dot near 

 centre, and with long fuscous and yellow hairs. Forewings tri- 

 angular, costa rounded, hindmargin gently and obliquely rounded, 

 inner margin sinuous; fuscous with lighter and darker shades and 

 marblings, tinted with blue-grey and ochreous, and pencilled with 

 lines of darker fuscous ; a rich chocolate band from costa just 

 beyond base to vein 1, a second like band from J costa to vein 1 

 at J, bordered posteriorly by an ochreous-fuscous line, a 3rd line 

 less conspicuous from before |- costa to near inner margin at f ; a 

 discoidal oval blotch having anterior half fuscous edged with 

 fuscous-black, and posterior half ochreous-fuscous, suffused pos- 

 teriorly into groundcolour ; a light ochreous-fuscous line from f 

 costa, parallel to hindmargin for ^ distance, where it curves 

 inward to vein 2, and thence is bent obliquely to inner border at 

 J, broadly dilate at costa and narrowing to inner margin, bordered 

 posteriorly with a line of rich black ; a broad hindmarginal band 

 of blue-grey narrowing to anal angle, diffused with ochreous on 

 anterior border, and subtended by a fuscous band § toward hind- 

 margin : cilia blue-grey. Hindwings orange-red, with a deep rich 

 black border, half the depth of wing on costa and narrowing to a 

 point on anal angle ; cilia grey-black. 



Geraldton (Messrs. Meek and Barnard). 



