284 ON QUEENSLAND AND OTHER AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



Hepialus Daphnandr^e, sp.nov. 



Q. 80 mm. Length of body 48 mm. Head green, eyes red. 

 Thorax green. Abdomen anterior third red, posterior | green. 

 Forewings broadly dilate, triangular, costa rounded towards apex, 

 hind margin nearly straight ; green with purple-brown spots along 

 the costa, most developed in middle third, numerous indistinct 

 transverse bluish short lines or dots and forming a continuous 

 dark line broken between veins, from J costa to h inner margin : 

 veins deeper green ; small hindmarginal purple-brown spots 

 between veins : cilia purplish-green. Hindwings with basal half 

 and inner half vermilion-red, remainder of wing yellow-green ; 

 cilia olive-green. 



From pupa on Daphnandra mierantha ; allied to H. Scotti, 

 Scott. 



Brisbane. 



This specimen is, I believe, small ; other larvae were promising 

 to be much larger. 



Hepialus hilaris, sp.nov. 



£. 58-62 mm., body 34 mm. Head green. Antennae red. 

 Thorax ochreous-green, with dark green lines on dorsum and 

 sides. Abdomen ochreous-green, with a long orange tuft on either 

 side anteriorly. Forewings elongate sub-trianguiar, costa slightly 

 sinuous, apex sub-falcate ; hindmargin rounded in continuance 

 with inner margin, light pea-green, crossed through entire length 

 by bead-like ring and banded lines of milky-blue and light 

 glaucous-green, enclosing ground-colour spots and lines, giving a 

 very pretty mottled appearance ; costa deep sea-green ; a row of 

 creamy -silvered spots from opposite | costa, but not touching 

 costa, to vein 2 opposite middle of inner margin ; a faint row of 

 bead-like milky-blue rings from f costa to § inner margin, a 

 lunulated dentate like colour line immediately beyond and 

 another sub-marginal with lunules concave and opposite to these : 

 cilia olive-green. Hindwings milky-blue : cilia olive-green. 



