112 NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF LEPIDOPTERA, 



Hyela thapsina, n.sp. 



(J. 18-20 mm. Head and palpi ochreous-yellow. Antennae 

 grey; in male simple. Thorax with a small rounded posterior 

 crest ; brownish-fuscous ; collar and patagia ochreous-yellow. 

 Abdomen grey; tuft brownish-ochreous. Legs ochreous; anterior 

 tibiae and tarsi, and middle tarsi fuscous, annulated narrowly 

 with whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, posteriorly dilated, 

 costa straight, apex round-pointed, termen slightly rounded, 

 slightly oblique ; ochreous-yellow ; a broad brownish-fuscous 

 terminal fascia, anterior edge wavy from |- costa to | dorsum : 

 cilia brownish-fuscous. Hindwings with termen rounded, slightly 

 indented beneath apex; dark grey, near base pale ochreous; cilia 

 pale ochreous, with a grey basal line. 



Townsville, Q.; in February and March; two specimens received 

 from INIr. F. P. Dodd. 



Though Sir George Hampson considers this a new species, I am 

 inclined to consider it a variety of Tarache detrita, ButL 



Raparna cyclostigma, n.sp. 



(J9. 22-21 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax gre}'. AntennjB 

 dark fuscous; in male minutely ciliated (\). Abdomen gre}', 

 with some fuscous scales. Legs fuscous, irrorated, and tarsi 

 annulated with whitish. Forewings elongate-triangular, apex 

 tolerably pointed, termen rounded, oblique; grey; black dots on 

 costa near base and at |, sometimes obsolete; a fine wavy grey 

 line from second dot to dorsum at ^; orbicular and reniform finely 

 outlined; a fine whitish line from costa at |, at first obliquely 

 outwards, forming a rounded projection in disc, thence inwardly 

 oblique to dorsum at ^; on the anterior margin of this line are a 

 variably developed series of black spots, sometimes obsolete ; 

 veins towards termen more or less distinctly outlined with ochreous- 

 whitish ; a dentate grey subterminal shade ; a row of black 

 terminal dots : cilia grey. Hindwings with termen scarcely 

 rounded; grey; a short dark fuscous line from i of inner margin; 

 and a second fainter line from tornus; a series of terminal black 

 dots; cilia grey. 



