94 NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF LEPIDOPTERA, 



AcontiansB. 

 Maurilia iocephala, n.sp. 



9. 25 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax pale ochreous-brown with 

 purple reflections. Antennae fuscous. Abdomen whitish-grey. 

 Legs purplish-grey mixed with white; posterior pair mostly white. 

 Forewings elongate-triangular, costa strongly arched, apex rect- 

 angular, termen straight, not oblique ; pale ochreous-brown, 

 towards termen whitish-grey, irrorated with purple-grey scales; 

 lines purple-grey; first from costa at ^ to middle of inner margin; 

 second from costa at f, wavy, to inner margin at J; preceded by 

 an obscure discal dot; a subterminal and a terminal sei'ies of dark 

 fuscous dots: cilia purple-grey, apices pale pink. Hindwings 

 with termen rounded, slightly sigmoid beneath apex; whitish, a 

 narrow terminal fuscous suffusion; cilia whitish. 



Townsville, Q.; in March; one specimen received from Mi-. F. 

 P. Dodd. 



ACONTIA ExMBOLOSCIA, n.Sp. 



5. 35 mm. Head white, posteriorly yellowish; face and palpi 

 reddish. Antennae grey, towards base whitish. Thorax yellow, 

 with a reddish-brown central streak. Abdomen orange-ochreous. 

 Legs reddish-brown ; anterior femora whitish ; posterior pair 

 whitish, tinged with reddish. Forewings elongate-triangular, 

 apex rounded, termen straight, rounded near tornus, not oblique; 

 yellow; a wedge-shaped fuscous suffusion having its apex at base 

 of wing, its base extending whole length of termen, obscuring the 

 lines, which nevertheless can mostly be traced through it: lines 

 and dorsal margin reddish-brown; a line from costa at -^ outwardly 

 oblique, forming an acute angle in disc^ thence inwardly oblique 

 to fold; a median discal dot just above suffusion; a line from costa 

 at f obliquely outwards, forming an acute angle near to termen, 

 thence inwardly oblique to mid-clorsum, interrupted before dorsum; 

 a line from costa near apex to angle of posterior line; a short line 

 from dorsum at i obliquely outwards to suffusion : cilia fuscous. 

 Hindwings with termen rounded; orange-ochreous; cilia grey, on 

 inner margin orange-ochreous. 



