588 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



3. Diast. margaritis, n.sp. 



<JQ. 26 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax white, sprinkled with 

 pale ochreous. Antennae whitish, pectinations in £ 2^, stout. 

 Forewings with hindmargin in £ hardly perceptibly, in £ more 

 distinctly angulated on vein 4 ; vein 11 anastomosing with 12 and 

 9, or free ; prismatic whitish, with short scattered cloudy dark 

 fuscous strigulse ; costa and veins tinged with ochreous ; first line 

 and median shade straight, thick, dark fuscous, not reaching costa; 

 a transverse dark fuscous discal spot before median shade; second 

 line slender, blackish-fuscous, nearly straight, bent near costa ; 

 a series of white spots representing subterminal line, preceded by 

 a ferruginous-ochreous suffusion nearly reaching second line, hind- 

 marginal area beyond this pale brownish-ochreous : cilia pale 

 brownish-ochreous, base white. Hindwings with hindmargin 

 slightly angulated in (J, rather prominently in Q > colour and 

 markings as in forewings, but first line and discal spot absent, 

 subterminal white spots reduced or nearly obsolete. 



North Queensland ; two specimens. 



3. Hyposidra, Gn. 



Face with appressed scales. Tongue short, imperfect. Palpi 

 rather short, porrectecl, rough-scaled, terminal joint very short. 

 Antennae in g strongly bipectinated, apex simple. Thorax not 

 crested, slightly hairy beneath. Femora glabrous ; posterior 

 tibiae in $ not dilated. Forewings in <£ with well-marked fovea ; 

 veins 10 and 11 separate. Hindwings normal. 



Further material is required to prove the validity of this genus, 

 which includes only the following species, a Malayan insect which 

 ranges into Australia. 



4. Hyp. janiaria, Gn. 



( Hyposidra janiaria, Gn. X, 150; Lagyra agrealesaria, Walk. 

 59; L. dijfusata, ib. Suppl. 1537; L. in/usata, ib. 1538; Hypo- 

 sidra australis, Felcl. pi. cxxix, 23, 24.) 



^ 9- 38-48 mm. Head and thorax pale yellow-ochreous, densely 

 irrorated with reddish-brown. Forewings with hindmargin 



