BY A. JEFFERIS TURNER. 95 



Towiisville, Q.; in February; two specimens received from Mr. 

 F. P. Dodd, and I have seen others. 

 Allied to A. transversa, Gn. 



Homopterinae. 



Ophiusa trophidota, n.sp. 



(J9. 63-65 mm. Head and palpi brown. Antennae whitish. 

 Thorax brown, a fine whitish transverse line before apex, similar 

 lines across patagia. Abdomen grey. Legs grey. Forewings 

 triangular, costa moderately arched, more strongly before apex, 

 apex acute, terraen sinuate beneath apex, bowed on vein 4, 

 oblique; brown; a straight ochreous-whitish line from costa near 

 base to median vein; a straight, slightly waved, deep brown line, 

 margined with ochreous-whitish from costa at J to dorsum at f ; 

 a deep brown median fascia bounded anteriorly by a line, from 4 

 costa to f dorsum, posteriorly by an ochreous-whitish line from 

 costa at f, angled in disc, thence slightly inwardly curved to 

 dorsum at J; three whitish dots on costa beyond this; a small 

 dark fuscous subapical dot ; a terminal series of minute dark 

 fuscous dots between veins: cilia brownish, with a pale basal line. 

 Hindwings with termen rounded; fuscous; a whitish line from 

 inner margin near tornus obliquely towards mid-costa, lost in 

 disc; a similar line from tornus to opposite mid-termen; a narrow 

 whitish suffusion on termen, with a row of minute dark fuscous 

 •dots between veins; cilia grey, with a whitish basal line. 



Brisbane, Q.; three specimens. 



Noctuinae. 

 Crioa nycterina, n.sp. 



^. 38 mm. Face and palpi dark fuscous, mixed with ochreous- 

 whitish; lower edge of frontal projection and a line behind eyes 

 pinkish. Antenna? pale ochreous-fuscous, partly annulated with 

 blackish. Thorax dark fuscous, with a moderate central crest. 

 Abdomen grey, mixed with ochreous-whitish; a dark fuscous spot 

 on dorsum at base. Legs dark fuscous, irrorated and annulated 

 with whitish. Forewings elongate triangular, costa very slightly 



