30 NEW AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, 



NOCTUINA. 



CARADRINIDiE. 



Leucania stenographa, n.sp. 



(J 9. 38-40 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, legs and abdomen 

 ochreous-fuscous, face with two narrow interrupted fuscous bars, 

 thorax with two transverse anterior bands, anterior one very tine, 

 posterior very broad, coxae densely hairy, posterior pair mixed 

 with fuscous. Antenna? fuscous-ochreous. Abdomen beneath 

 more ochreous. Forewings elongate, moderately dilated, costa 

 nearly straight, hindmargin gently rounded; ochreous, strongly 

 infuscated throughout with fine fuscous and dark fuscous lines, 

 becoming edged by an equal width of groundcolour on hind- 

 marginal area, which gives the appearance of alternating ochreous 

 and fuscous lines ; lower edge of cell becoming very strongly 

 infuscated, sometimes more or less continued as a thick streak to 

 apex; a fine whitish-ochreous spot at end of cell; an outwardly 

 curved row of fine black dots from § of costa to inner margin 

 before anal angle : cilia ochreous-fuscous, with a hindmarginal 

 row of black intervenal spots, more pronounced on underside. 

 Hindwings with hindmargin very slightly waved; iridescent- 

 whitish; a fine fuscous hindmarginal line; cilia whitish. 



Parkside, South Australia; three specimens, in June. 



Orthosia typhlopa, n.sp. 



^£. 28-32 mm. Head, palpi, antennae and thorax dark fuscous, 

 thorax broadly blackish on sides, palpi blackish at base externally. 

 Abdomen greyish-fuscous. Legs greyish, strongly infuscated, 

 tarsi banded above with ochreous. Forewings elongate-triangular, 

 costa gently arched, hindmargin hardly rounded, nearly straight; 

 dark fuscous; a waved moderate blackish line from ^ of costa to 

 I- inner margin, twice dentate, lower dentation acute; a waved 

 double black line from middle of costa, curved outwards and 

 returning to beyond middle of inner margin; orbicular and reni- 

 form white, reniform moderately defined; orbicular dot-like; veins 



