602 REVISION OP AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



18. Set. curtaria. Walk. 



(Tephrosia curtaria, Walk. Suppl. 1592.) 



(J. 22 mm. Face blackish (1). Antennal pectinations about 

 7, apical y 1 ^ filiform. Forewings with hindmargin obliquely 

 rounded, waved; whitish-fuscous, sprinkled with blackish; first 

 and second lines curved, blackish, somewhat interrupted ; median 

 shade cloudy, hardly curved, blackish, connected by a slender 

 bar with a cloudy blackish spot before second line in middle ; 

 subterminal cloudy, subdentate, whitish, anteriorly margined 

 obscurely with blackish. Hindwings with hindmargin rounded, 

 dentate ; colour and markings as in forewings, but first line 

 absent, a blackish discal dot beyond median shade, no spot or 

 connecting bar. before second line. 



Queensland (Walker's citation of the locality as " Swan River" 

 is erroneous, as I have shown elsewhere) ; one specimen in the 

 British Museum, from which the above description is taken. 

 The characters are incomplete, but the species appears to be a 

 good one, recognisable by its small size and the bar connecting 

 median shade and second line. 



19. Sel. externaria, Walk. 



(Tephrosia externaria, Walk. Suppl. 1591.) 



gQ. 31-34 mm. Face with upper half blackish, lower half 

 white, forehead white. Antennal pectinations of $ 9, apical i 

 simple. Forewings with hindmargin waved, rounded ; vein 10 

 connected with 12, 11 out of 10 ; light fuscous, closely strewn 

 with white partially confluent strigulre, and with some dark 

 fuscous or blackish scales or strigulse ; first line curved, dark 

 fuscous, little marked ; median shade thick, blackish-fuscous, 

 almost rectangularly angulated in or above middle, upper half 

 sometimes rather curved inwards ; a blackish-fuscous transverse 

 discal mark on or sometimes beyond this ; second line blackish- 

 fuscous, tending to form dots on upper half, rather irregularly 

 sinuate, somewhat angulated above middle ; subterminal whitish, 

 ill-defined, partially margined anteriorly with blackish-fuscous 



