96 NEW GKNERA AND SPECIES OF LEPIDOPTERA, 



arched, apex rather acute, hindmargin slightl}^ rounded, wavy, 

 very oblique; dark fuscous, suffused with brown, with a few 

 scattered whitish scales, markings black; an acutely angulated 

 line from costa near base as far as fold: a similar line traceable 

 with diificulty from costa at ^ to inner margin at -|; an oblique 

 blackish line in disc followed by a whitish line representing 

 reniform; a line from middle of costa very obliquely outwards, 

 then bent parallel to termen, and again bent backwards beneath 

 reniform, and thence acutely dentate to inner margin at §; three 

 or four white dots on apical fourth of costa; a blackish subterminal 

 shade posteriorly dentate; a fine terminal line interrupted by 

 whitish dots, which are connected by fine blackish lines with sub- 

 terminal shade: cilia dark fuscous, apices dotted with whitish. 

 Hindwings with termen rounded, w^avy ; fuscous ; basal half 

 ochreous-whitish ; cilia whitish, barred with fuscous. Under 

 surface of fore- and hindwings with crescentic fuscous discal spots 

 and fuscous terminal bands. 



Brisbane, Q. ; one specimen. 



Closely allied to Crioa acronyctina, Butl., but fore wings much 

 darker, abdominal crest less developed, and hindwings sharply 

 divided between ochreous-whitish and fuscous. 



Crioa leptochroma, n.sp. 



(J9. 30 mm. Head whitish, mixed with pale greenish-fuscous; 

 face whitish. Palpi whitish, mixed with a few dark fuscous 

 scales; external surface of second joint dark fuscous at base. 

 Antennae grey; towards base whitish, with a few dark fuscous 

 transverse bars. Thorax with a strong erect crest extending 

 from middle to posterior edge: whitish, mixed with brownish; 

 posterior aspect of crest irrorated with dark fuscous. Abdomen 

 whitish-ochreous, mixed with grey. Legs dark fuscous, mixed 

 with whitish; tarsi annulated with whitish; posterior pair mostly 

 whitish. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa moderately arched, 

 apex round-pointed, hindmargin rounded, obliciue; white, suffused 

 with fuscous and greenish; a fine irregularly dentate line from 



