

762 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



blackish, all segments with apical white rings, becoming yellowish 

 beneath, anal tuft ochreous-yellow. Legs blackish. Forewings 

 rather elongate-triangular, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, 

 hindmargin obliquely rounded ; blackish ; dorsal margin very nar- 

 rowly yellowish-white from near base to § ; vein 1 yellowish-white 

 anteriorly ; a moderately broad irregular-edged ochreous-white 

 fascia from beyond middle of costa towards anal angle, not reaching 

 it, on costa blackish-edged, anterior edge acutely indented in 

 middle : cilia blackish. Hindwings with veins 6 and 7 stalked ; 

 white ; costa narrowly grey ; a moderately broad irregular-edged 

 black hindmarginal band, semicircularly excavated towards 

 middle ; cilia blackish. 



Cooktown and Cairns, Queensland ; five specimens (Coll. Macleay 

 and Lucas). 



102. Nyct. separata. Walk. 



(Nyctemera separata, Walk. Suppl. 204.) 

 ^ £. 40-41 mm. Head yellow-whitish, with a blackish spot on 

 forehead and another on crown. Palpi dark fuscous, basal half 

 pale yellowish. Antennse dark fuscous, in £ with very short 

 pectinations terminating in long cilia, in Q simply ciliated. Thorax 

 whitish-yellow, with ten blackish spots. Abdomen white, segments 

 grey towards base, anal tuft of £ yellowish. Legs grey. Forewings 

 rather elongate-triangular, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, 

 hindmargin obliquely rounded ; rather light fuscous ; dorsal edge 

 very narrowly white ; an irregular-edged white fascia from beyond 

 middle of costa to before anal angle, rarely reaching inner margin, 

 in one specimen reduced to a costal spot and three dots ; two small 

 sometimes confluent white spots towards apex, and a third towards 

 hindmargin in middle : cilia pale fuscous. Hindwings with veins 

 6 and 7 from a point ; white ; an irregular moderate dark grey 

 hindmarginal band, indented beneath apex, containing a small 

 white almost apical spot, and a second (sometimes confluent with 

 disc near middle of hindmargin ; cilia grey. 



Cape York, Cooktown, and Cairns, Queensland ; seven speci- 

 mens (Coll Macleay and Masters). Also from Aru and Ceram. 



