80 NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF LEPIDOPTERA, 



whitish ; towards termen more or less suffused with fuscous ; 

 sometimes with a few pinkish scales along veins; cilia whitish. 

 Brisbane, Q.; four specimens, in January. 



Agrotis hypochalchis, n.sp. 



(J. 34 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish-grey. 

 Antennae fuscous ; towards base brownish-grey. Legs grey ; 

 femora and coxae densely hair}^ Forewings elongate-triangular; 

 costa almost straight, apex rounded, termen rounded, scarcely 

 oblique; brownish-grey; traces of blackish dotted lines near base, 

 and transversel}-^ across disc at ^; a minute black dot in disc 

 beneath costa at 4; reniform conspicuous, dark reddish-brown, 

 posteriorly narrowly edged with whitish; two parallel fine dotted 

 lines from costa at | to inner margin at f , outwardly curved in 

 disc; a sinuate subterminal dark shade; a fine interrupted blackish 

 line on termen: cilia fuscous. Hind wings with termen slightly 

 sinuate; dark grey; cilia grey, with a darker basal line. Under- 

 surface of both wings greenish-ochreous over anterior §, thence 

 fuscous. 



Brisbane, Q.; one specimen, in October: 83'dney, N.S.W.; one 

 specimen (Coll. Lyell). 



The colouring of undersurface is peculiar and characteristic. 

 It is closely allied to Agrotis subnigra, Wlk. 



Mamestrinse. 



Leucania polysticha, n.sp. 



^. 40 mm. Head and palpi ochreous-whitish irrorated with 

 fuscous. Antennae ochreous-whitish. Thorax pale brownish- 

 ochreous mixed with fuscous; a few conspicuous black-tipped 

 scales near inner border of tegulae. Abdomen grey. Legs 

 ochreous-whitish irrorated with blackish. Forewings elongate- 

 triangular, costa straight except near apex, apex round-pointed, 

 hind margin rounded, moderately oblique; brown-whitish with 

 whitish streaks on veins and numerous fuscous streaks between 

 veins; a stronger fuscous streak from base to bej'^ond cell, inter- 



