158 DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



segments oclireous. Forewings with costa straight, rounded at 

 base and apex, hindmargin rounded, wavy, snowy-white with 

 ochreous-drab and fuscous lines and suffusions ; a circular line 

 near base to near inner margin ; a second circular line from ^ 

 costa to \ inner margin, and continuous over § hind wing ; a short 

 oblique line from costa at J, and immediately beneath posterior 

 end a kidney-shaped figure with a white centre and smoky-grey 

 nucleus ; a narrow line beneath this to J inner margin and 

 through hind wing to J inner margin ; a triangle at J costa, and a 

 broad band immediately beneath ; beyond these posteriorly is a 

 line of ground- white sinuous outward toward apex and inward 

 toward inner margin, bordered anteriorly by a light-ochreous-drab 

 line and posteriorly by a darker line, suffused in the pockets ; a 

 parallel suffusion of ochreous-drab on hindmargin separated by a 

 similar line of snow-white : cilia white, tinted and mixed with 

 ochreous-drab. Hindwings as forewings, a round discal dot 

 beyond 2nd line ; a third line dentate and denticulate ; a broad 

 hindmarginal suffusion of ochreous-drab, with a short faint line of 

 white along inner margin to opposite anal angle ; cilia as in 

 forewings. 



Geraldton (Messrs. Meek and Barnard). 



Family BOTYTID.^. 

 GlYPHODES LINE ATA, sp.nOV. 



(J9. 30-35 mm. Head grey, orbital rims and tongue white. 

 Palpi black, terminal joint light grey. Antennae ochreous-grey. 

 Thorax chocolate-fuscous, becoming chocolate-black laterally, with 

 seven whitish-grey lines, one on dorsum and three at equal 

 distances on either side. Abdomen chocolate-fuscous, posterior 

 segments vermilion-red tinted with gold, five whitish-grey lines, 

 one on dorsum and two at equal distances on either side, caudal 

 appendage in ,5 black, anal segment of 9 vermilion-red, narrowly 

 edged with black. Forewings elongate, moderately dilate, costa 

 straight, apical fourth rounded, hindmargin obliquely rounded 

 beyond centre, chocolate-fuscous tinted with velvety-black and 



