156 DESCRIPTIONS OP NEW AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



obtuse angle and continued until it meets the transverse bar just 

 before costa ; a dark green spot at § costa breaking up into two 

 bands, the anterior reaching to f inner margin and crossed in the 

 middle by a diffused black-green blotch bordered with copper-red, 

 the posterior branch very denticulate, and extending to f hind- 

 margin ; it is bordered by a light green on either side and suffused 

 into a coppery patch at and filling the whole anal angle ; a hind- 

 marginal row of black-green dots, barred by a shading of copper- 

 fuscous : cilia copper-fuscous banded and barred with fuscous. 

 Hindwings fuscous, with darker fuscous on veins and darker 

 towards hindmargin but scarcely forming a hindmarginal band ; 

 cilia copper-red tinted with pink and barred and banded with 

 fuscous. 



Brisbane; a pair bred by Mr. lUidge in 1892. 



Family PYRALID^. 



Balanotis ferruginea, sp.nov. 



(J. 39 mm. Head iron-grey, eyes green, black in posterior 

 lower third. Palpi iron-grey. Antennae grey, very finely lined 

 with black and white, cilia grey. Thorax grey, richly variegated 

 with white and black, three white spots on either side of central 

 line of dorsum, collar iron-grey, a brush of long ochreous hair 

 spreading out from underside from fore part of thorax. Abdo- 

 men black, base variegated with white, segments narrowly and 

 sparingly based w^th white at sides, caudal appendage ochreous, 

 extreme point black. Legs iron-grey, tibise and tarsi lined 

 with ochreous-white. Forewings elongate, narrowly dilate, costa 

 slightly wavy, hindmargin rounded, fuscous, marbled with shades 

 of fuscous-black and grey ; a black linear fascia from f costa to J 

 inner margin ; costal half of wing for ^ of depth black ; a con- 

 spicuous apical ])atch marbled black and fuscous; spots on inner 

 margin and a diffused arch of spots in middle third of inner 

 margin black and marbled with fuscous ; remainder of wing 

 lighter, being more or less marbled with grey and white; hind- 



