152 DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



grey-blue on anterior border, and suflfused into groundcolour 

 posteriorly ; a suffused waved sinuous linear fascia from costa 

 just before apex, to anal angle, concave in centre : cilia black 

 tinted with fuscous-grey. Hindwings orange-red, with a black 

 hindmarginal border, irregular and prolonged along veins on 

 anterior border, suffused with orange- red on posterior border, and 

 toward | of hindmargin, where the black tint is diffused along 

 submedian vein to near base ; cilia orange-red varied with black 

 and grey. 



Geraldton, Johnson River (Messrs. Meek and Barnard). 



Allied to T. coronata, Fabr. 



Family THERMESIID^. 

 Sympis Parkeri, sp.nov. 



(J9. 38-42 ram. Head vermilion-fuscous, crown with a white 

 or ochreous lunar mark ; face variegated with white. Palpi 

 fuscous, variegated with white or ochreous. Antennae fuscous, 

 whiter toward extremity. Thorax vermilion-fuscous. Abdomen 

 fuscous or fuscous-grey, segments bordered with lighter grey. 

 Forewings elongate-triangular, costa slightly waved, hindmargin 

 nearly straight, vermilion with fuscous tint, and shaded by fuscous 

 and lines of darker fuscous ; a fuscous dot at base on median, and 

 a faint row of dots along median, a small black discal spot at |^, 

 nearer costa ; a wavy denticulate border at f marking off the outer 

 fuscous half of wing, crossed near its anterior border by two 

 interrupted fine black lines, in its centre by three small vermilion 

 dots or by four larger dots closely approximate, and by a sub- 

 marginal white suffused line ; hindmarginal line fuscous : cilia 

 fuscous barred with white. Hindwings vermilion or vermilion- 

 grey at base, and banded by fuscous, by a white or bluish-grey 

 fascia and again by darker fuscous or blue-black from within 

 outwards, a submarginal whitish shade in middle third and a 

 hindmarginal dark fuscous line ; cilia white on inner border, 

 fuscous near apex, white and grey in median expanse. 



