162 DESCRIPTIONS OF NKW AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



grey-white freely irrorated with smoky-black scales, veins smoky- 

 grey ; a suffusion of smoky-black all round disc leaving disc a 

 grey-whit« as groundcolour ; a like suffusion on inner border 

 leaving a narrow strip of groundcolour between it and the darker 

 area of the wing ; no distinct discal spot : cilia grey, tinted with 

 smoky-grey. Hindwings in $ black, darker on veins, inner 

 margin and base white ; a row of black spots on veins almost 

 hidden by groundcolour ; in 9 hindwings white diffused with 

 ashy-grey ; streaks of white from base in interneural spaces ; 

 veins smoky-grey ; cilia white with a smoky line in $, in 9 

 divided into dots. 



Brisbane; reared by Mr. lllidge from larvae taken on Swamp 

 Mahogany (Trislania suaveolens). 



Cryptophaga intermedia, sp.nov. 



(J9. 28-42 mm. Head, palpi and thorax white. Antennae in 

 (J white, pectinations fuscous, in 9 white at base, thence 

 finely annulated in middle and becoming black at extremities. 

 Legs white, tarsi with black and white rings. Abdomen in 

 (J with first segment white, 2nd dull orange-red, middle segments 

 velvety-black edged with white, and posterior segments edged 

 with long white hairs ; in 9 white, second segment dull orange- 

 red. Forewings elongate, costa in $ nearly straight, in 9 

 rounded, milky-white, with three black spots, 1st near median 

 at J, 2nd and 3rd at |, the costal one slightly anterior — in 9 the 

 median portion of the wing is covered, and the dots are less easily 

 traced, in numerous short black pencillings ; a row of black spots 

 on apical fifth and along hindmargin : cilia white, with darker 

 basal band. Hindwings in ^ black, darker on veins, inner border 

 white variegated with a few grey hairs, in 9 white, veins smoky- 

 black, and a diffusion of black along veins and over the hind- 

 marginal area of wing, dots on hindmargin in 9 large and con- 

 spicuous, in (J almost obscured ; cilia white with smoky band at 

 base. 



Var. alha. 



