86 NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF LEPIDOPTERA, 



this species to Catephia is merely superficial, the structure of vein 

 5 of hind wings being altogether different. 



Caradrina chromoneura, n.sp. 



(^. 29 mm. Head dark fuscous mixed with whitish. Pa.lpi 

 white with a few dark fuscous scales; basal J of second joint dark 

 fuscous. Antennae fuscous; in male simple. Thorax dark fuscous 

 mixed with whitish and ochreous, the ochreous scales being 

 especially developed on collar. Abdomen ochreous-f uscous. Legs 

 dark fuscous, annulated with whitish. Forewings narrowly elon- 

 gate-triangular, costa gently arched, apex round-pointed, termen 

 bowed between veins 3 and 4, oblique; white, irrorated sparsely 

 with dark fuscous, more densely in centre of disc; orbicular and 

 claviform obsolete; reniform obscurely indicated by an oblique 

 whitish loop from costa; an incomplete black line near base; a 

 finely dentate black line from costa at \ obliquely to inner margin 

 at f ; a third black dentate line from costa at f curved first out- 

 wardly then inwardly to inner margin at j ; base, an incomplete 

 transverse line before \^ and most of veins outlined with ochreous; 

 a blackish suffusion anterior and posterior to reniform; a series 

 of wedge-shaped blackish terminal dots : cilia dark fuscous barred 

 with white. Hindwings with termen slightly sinuate; dark grey, 

 towards base paler; cilia dark grey barred with white, on inner 

 margin whitish. 



Ulverstone, Tas.; one specimen (Coll. Lyell). 



E c c L E T A, n.g. 



Head loosely scaled. Face not projecting. Eyes smooth. 

 Tongue well developed. Palpi rather large, upwardly curved, 

 reaching base of antennae, second joint loosely scaled towards 

 apex, terminal joint well developed, with appressed scales. 

 Antennae in male with long pectinations (10), shorter towards 

 apex, apical jy simple. Thorax with a slight posterior crest. 

 Abdomen smooth. Posterior tibiae with two pairs of spurs. 

 Forewings with vein 2 from middle of cell, 3 from angle, 6 

 separate, 7, 8, 9 stalked, 10 connected by a bar with 7, 8, 9. 

 Hindwings normal. 



