300 ON QUEENSLAND AND OTHER AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



Some five years ago I obtained a few specimens of Xenomusa 

 which Meyrick named X. monoda, on the flowers of a shrubby 

 verbena in a garden at Upper Moe, Gippsland, Victoria, at a 

 height of 1200 feet. I have not found it here, though it is highly 

 probable I may. But in its place I have obtained this allied 

 species, which is smaller and distinctly metallic. 



MONOCTENIA DlGGLESARIA, Gn. 



Of this species Meyrick says : "I have seen no insect agreeing 

 with it ; it appears to indicate a good and distinct species." I 

 have received a specimen from Mr. Kershaw, which exactly 

 answers to Guenee's description. 



Family MICRONIAD^. 

 Anteia canescens, sp.nov. 



Q. 26-31 mm. Head black. Palpi grey, very short. Antennae 

 white. Thorax and abdomen grey-white. Forewings with costa 

 rounded, hindmargin gently rounded ; white, sparingly dusted 

 with grey scales, and numerous short water-grey strigulse ; costa 

 thickly covered on basal § with minute strigulae ; 1st fascia 

 water-grey, broad, from J inner margin not reaching to costa 

 opposite to f, attenuated toward costa, darker toward borders ; 

 2nd fascia from ? inner margin to near costa just before apex, 

 attenuated toward costa and with white patches in median line ; 

 an interrupted strigulous crossed line from \ inner margin to 

 before apex, a 2nd like line from just before anal angle of inner 

 margin to a point just before apex of costa with 2nd fascia and 

 1st line ; a hindmarginal line black from near apical angle to 

 two-thirds wing, thence diffused grey : cilia white, edged with 

 grey. Hind wings as forewings, 1st and 2nd fasciae in a direct 

 line with those on forewings ; 1st near base, 2nd from \ inner 

 margin to \ costa ; a third fascia from f inner margin to * costa, 

 attenuated at both extremities ; two sub-marginal lines from near 

 anal angle of inner margin, interrupted in short wavy strigulse, 



