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white in basal third, and through posterior J ; the middle third of 

 hind wings is suffused with grey and white as a broad dentate 

 fascia. 



Dawson River, Queensland. 



This beautiful species was brought to Mr. Barnard, Dawson 

 River, by the blacks, who found caterpillars and chrysalises under 

 bark of trees. I obtained a series of chrysalises of an allied species 

 some years ago under the bark of a large gum tree near Deniliquin, 

 N.S. Wales. Butler named the moth D. stygiana, and remarked 

 that it was the finest species yet discovered. The species here 

 described is half as large again as D. stygiana. 



Darala asciscens, sp.nov. 



£Q. 96-110 mm. Head brown tinted with grey. Palpi black. 

 Antennae black. Thorax black. Abdomen black, with brown 

 diffused laterally and posteriorly, grey on under surface. Fore- 

 wings, costa rounded near apex, hindmargin nearly straight, smoky- 

 grey with black markings and free irrorations of ashy-grey ; an 

 irregular wavy tortuous narrow fascia, brown-black, from ^ costa 

 to \ inner margin ; the ground colour from this to base of wing is 

 lighter drab-brown posteriorly, and as far as a rich black band 

 extending from J costa to f inner margin the ground-colour is a 

 darker grey, and is crossed irregularly near its anterior border by 

 irregular interrupted patches of dark fascia ; on anterior border 

 of the black band at J from costa is a prominent round white 

 discal spot, bordered with black ; from 4 costa to J inner border 

 a narrow rich black sinuous line is bordered posteriorly with a 

 more or less defined white line, another waved denticulate blackish 

 line from just before apex of costa to just before anal angle of 

 inner margin is bordered anteriorly by a conspicuous white line : 

 cilia brown-grey. Hindwings drab, lighter toward base, and 

 crossed by darker band | costa to £ inner margin, and by 3 wavy 

 dentate lines at J, the anterior smoky-grey, the middle lighter 

 grey, and the posterior one white-grey ; cilia as forewings. 

 Underside light-grey with a brown band across both wings, from 



