290 ON QUEENSLAND AND OTHER AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA 



Darala succinea, sp.nov. 



(JQ. 65-90 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, and abdomen 

 amber-coloured. Legs black-brown. Forewings, costa nearly 

 straight, hindmargin obliquely rounded, amber-coloured ; some 

 specimens have a reddish tint, with smoky-black markings ; an 

 irregular diffused line, lunulated in middle 3rd toward hind- 

 margin from £ costa to \ inner margin ; a small smoke-colour 

 discal spot beyond the middle of wing \ from costa ; a straight 

 red line curved inwards at costa from near £ costa to J inner 

 margin ; immediately beyond and parallel is a crenulate smoke- 

 colour line deepened into a spot on the veins : cilia ochreous- 

 brown. Hindwings as forewings, first smoky line and red line 

 less distinct, second smoky-colour line very defined ; cilia as 

 forewings. 



The Wimmera, Victoria ; taken by Mr. Hill. 



Darala scortea, sp.nov. 



<J. 62, £. 82 mm. Head, antenna?, thorax, and abdomen in 

 £ ochreous-brown or the colour of chamois leather, in £ lighter 

 chamois tint. Palpi in £ black-brown, in £ light chamois tint.# 

 Legs in $ black-brown, in Q colour of body, head of femur in 

 both with a snow-white spot. Forewings, costa rounded toward 

 apex, hindmargin rounded, in £ colour and appearance of chamois 

 leather, in 9 of a lighter more ochreous shade : an indistinct 

 diffused smoky line at \ and another at 1 costa, interrupted 

 toward each other at \ from costa, whence they proceed as one 

 line wavy and interrupted to 1 inner margin, and thence to -J 

 inner margin of hindwings ; a pale fuscous discal spot in posterior 

 line and another more distinct beyond middle of wing at .1 from 

 costa ; a crenulate smoke-colour line pointed on veins, and 

 bordered posteriorly with red from |- costa to | inner margin : 

 immediately beyond this a crenulate smoky-colour line, darker at 

 veins, and diverges further apart toward inner margin : cilia 

 reddish-brown. Hindwings as forewings, with the two median 



