198 STUDIES IN AUSTRALIAN MICROLEPIDOPTERA, 



Lactura PILCHERI. 

 Q.: Brisbane, in November and March. 



Lactura cristata. 

 Q.: Gympie, in April; Brisbane, in March. 



Lactura calliphylla. 



Q.: Mount Tambourine, in November, February, and March 

 (not from Brisbane); Coolangatta, in March. — N.S.W.: Tweed 

 River, in October. 



Lactura krythractis. 

 N.A.: Port Darwin, in October. — N.Q.: Thursday Island; 

 Cape York; Stannary Hills; Townsville, in January. 



Lactura mactata. 

 N.Q.: Kuranda, near Cairns, in October and April; Innisfail, 

 in November; Atherton, in June. 



LACTURA PTER0P02CILA, n.sp. [7TT€/307TOiKiAos, with variegated wings]. 



£. 20 mm. Head yellow. Palpi fuscous ; terminal joint 

 ochreous-whitish. Antennae fuscous; basal joint pale yellow. 

 Thorax fuscous, with a posterior yellow spot. Abdomen fuscous; 

 extreme base and apex reddish; under surface yellowish, with a 

 reddish lateral line. Legs reddish; anterior pair fuscous; middle 

 tibiae, apex of posterior tibiae, and all tarsi fuscous. Forewings 

 elongate-oval, costa strongly arched, apex rounded, termen 

 obliquely rounded; 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to apex or costa; yellow^ 

 markings fuscous; a broad line on costa from base to \', a broadly 

 Y-shaped blotch with its base on midcosta, the limbs diverging 

 widely in disc; beneath this, three small discal dots, the first two 

 forming a transverse pair, and a dot on mid-dorsum; a large 

 terminal blotch containing a yellowish spot before middle; cilia 

 yellow, on apex and tornus fuscous. Hind wings elongate-ovate; 

 dark fuscous, extreme base red; cilia fuscous. 



Nearest to L. cristata. Type in Coll. Turner. 



N.Q.: Kuranda, near Cairns, in December and April ; two 

 specimens. 



