642 NEW AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



obliquely rounded ; browriish-ochreous ; veins more or less out- 

 lined with fuscous ; median third of wing fuscous, more pro- 

 nounced on upper half ; orbicular moderate, ovoid, white, faintly 

 centred with fuscous ; reniform large, well developed, white, 

 broadly centred with fuscous ; a fine fuscous waved line along 

 termen : cilia ochreous, with subbasal and terminal fuscous lines. 

 Hindwings with termen rounded, waved ; iridescent-white, 

 termen more or less faintly infuscated ; cilia white. 

 Blackwood, S.A.; one specimen, in March. 



AgROTIS (?) AMAURODES, n.sp. 



^. 36 mm. Head, palpi, antennas and thorax whitish, palpi 

 short, white beneath. Abdomen grey-whitish, finely irrorated 

 with fuscous. Legs fuscous. Forewings elongate-triangular, 

 termen faintly waved, somewhat bowed, oblique ; dull whitish- 

 fuscous, more or less irrorated with darker fuscous and a few 

 ferruginous scales ; 5 small black spots on costa between base and 

 reniform spot, from first proceeds a short waved fuscous double 

 line, only perceptible on upper half ; a similar line proceeding 

 from second and third spots and ending on inner margin at -^-, a 

 similar line from beyond J of costa to inner margin at |, followed 

 by a broad fuscous parallel shade, posterior edge irregularly 

 waved, and indented beneath costa; ground colour between shade 

 and termen bluish-white ; a fine waved line along termen ; 

 orbicular small, indistinct, roundish, whitish ; reniform small, 

 white, broadly edged on either side, except posterior edge, with 

 black : cilia greyish, with a fuscous median line. Hindwings 

 with termen rounded, hardly waved ; light fuscous, becoming 

 whitish on basal half, division suffused ; cilia white, with a 

 fuscous median line. 



Toorak, Vic; two specimens, in March. 



Agrotis mniodes, n.sp. 



(J. 30 mm. Head and thorax greyish, thorax with a transverse 

 black anterior line. (Palpi broken). Antennse bipectinated to 

 apex, ochreous. Abdomen and legs grey-whitish, tibiae blackish, 



