1G4 DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



toward costa at apex ; a tine inconspicuous line at j : cilia dark 

 grey. Hind wings creamy-white ; cilia light grey. 



Brisbane ; one specimen taken at light in 1891 ; Dr. Turner 

 has this year beaten five or six specimens from Eugenia^ on the 

 stems of which it probably feeds. 



Xylorycta stercorata, sp.no v. 



(J. 30 mm. Head and palpi white. Antennae white at base, 

 becoming greyer toward apex. Thorax white, with a conspicuous 

 dorsal patch of fuscous, varied by shades of purplish-grey, white 

 and fuscous and spreading laterally posteriorly. Abdomen white, 

 2nd segment reddish-fuscous and loosely covered with white hairs. 

 Legs white. Forewings elongate, gently dilate, costa gently 

 rounded, hindmargin nearly straight ; white, with a number of 

 pale leaden-coloured spots imitative of birds' droppings ; an acute 

 spot in centre and a splash tinted with ferrous in inner angle of 

 base \ a triangular blotch at f costa ; five round spots, 1st near 

 costa at J, 2nd obliquely to 1st and posterior, 3rd before middle 

 in centre of wing, 4th at f of wing, 5th in a line with 4th but 

 nearer to costa ; two sharp dots arranged diagonally with 1st and 

 2nd spots ; four dots forming a rhomboid figure at i, the two 

 hinder ones tinted with purplish-black ; an obscure dot on hind- 

 margin at f , and another half-way between this and apex ; three 

 rows of fine hindmarginal spots : cilia white. Hindwings and 

 cilia white. 



Brisbane ; bred from ElcHocarinis ohovatus : also one specimen 

 at light. 



As this species rests closed up on the leaf, it looks exactly like 

 a bird's dropping. 



Maroga undosa, sp.nov. 



^$. 30-36 mm. Head and thorax light slaty-grey, in 9 tinted 

 with copper colour. Palpi black, tipped with white. Antennae 

 black in basal third, black and white annuiated in middle, and 

 white in apical third. Legs black, anterior coxce snow-white, 

 posterior pair copper-coloured. Forewings elongate, gently dilate. 



