286 ON QUEENSLAND AND OTHER AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



Abdomen light creamy-drab. Forewings, costa rounded, hind- 

 margin rounded ; purple-grey, shining and darker posteriorly, 

 bordered by an indented hind marginal yellow band or fringe : 

 cilia yellow. Hind wings and cilia creamy-drab. 

 Brisbane ; one specimen ; May, 1890. 



Darala expansa, sp.nov. 



Q. 118 mm. Head and antennae creamy-ochreous, collar black. 

 Palpi brown. Thorax drab, white, downy, resembling wool. 

 Abdomen light fawn-colour with a ridge of light-coloured long 

 hairs round base of each segment. Forewings triangular, broadly 

 dilate ; costa rounded, apex very acute, hind margin rounded ; 

 fuscous with irrorations of red or fuscous, and light fuscous and 

 creamy-red scales ; basal fifth drab-white or wool-colour, bordered 

 by a smoke-colour line from - ( V costa to ^ inner margin ; a con- 

 spicuous rich black line from J costa to § inner margin, bordered 

 posteriorly by a wool-colour suffused line ; the ground-colour 

 between 1st and 2nd lines is a darker fuscous, relieved with 

 smoky-grey and brown suffusions ; discal spot large, just before 

 centre of wing at 1 from costa, creamy ochreous, bordered with 

 black ; a broad suffused band of reddish cream-colour beyond 2nd 

 line, bordered posteriorly by wavy crenulate undefined line of 

 diffused brown, which suffusion extends to hindmargin ; hind- 

 marginal line and cilia smoky-brown. Hindwings ochreous-brown 

 for basal fourth ; creamy-ochreous to nearly J ; a broad brown- 

 ochreous band beyond ^, bordered anteriorly with brown line and 

 posteriorly with deep rich black line and a black suffusion ; a 

 creamy-red band, suffused with smoky-brown scales, and bordered 

 posteriorly by a wavy crenulate black-brown line, and by a dark 

 brown suffusion with smoke-colour scales to hindmargin ; black 

 patch on inner margin at \ ; cilia smoky-brown. 



Dawson River ; one specimen (Mr. G. Barnard). 



Darala magnifica, sp.nov. 

 ^. 70 mm, 9. 100 mm. £. Head black, face grey. Palpi 

 black. Antenna? white, pectinations black. Thorax brown, 



