2IO LYMANTRIID/E. 



883. Darala nicothoe, 



Bombyx nicothoe. Boisd. : Voy. de I'Astrolabe, i. p. 226 (1832). 

 Darala adusta. Walker : iv. 897 (1855). 



Type {adtesia). Van Diemen's Land, in B. M. 



a. Van Diemen's Land (6). b. New Holland (3). 



984. Darala elizabetha. 



Odonestis elizabetha. White : App. Capt. Grey's Journ. Expecl. Discov. 



Austral,, p. 478 (1841). 

 Darala elizahctha. Walker: iv. 893 (1855). 



a. King George's Sound. 



985. Darala uniformis : n, sp. 



S Of a uniform reddish fawn colour, shafts of the antennce yellowish, 

 plumes brown, fore-wings and body slightly darker than the hind- 

 wings. Fore-wings with a white spot in the middle of the cell and 

 another similar spot at the end. Underside with a white dot at end 

 of cell of fore-wings and a larger one at the end of cell in hind- 

 wings, otherwise the wings and body above and below are without 

 markings. 



Expanse of wings I j^ inches. 

 a. Queensland (type). 



Allied to D. elizabetha, similar in shape, but that species has seg- 

 mental brown bands on the abdomen and a discal line of brown dots 

 across both wings. 



986. Darala minuta : n. sp. 



$ Reddish fawn colour, shafts of the antennce pale, plumes brownish, 

 body above and below darker than the wings, wings slightly darker 

 towards the base. Fore-wings with a small brown spot at the end 

 of the cell, and a nearly obsolete pale brown transverse discal line. 

 Hind-wings with a faint brown spot at the end of the cell ; no other 

 markings. 



Expanse of wings i^V inches. 

 a. New South Wales (type). b. Australia. 



Genus COLUSSA. Walker: xxi. 288 (i860). 



987. Colussa varia. 



Darala varia. Walker: iv. 890 (1S55) $. 

 Cohissa odenestaria. Walker: xxi. 2S8 (i860) ?. 



Type. New Holland, in B. M. 



Type {ode7icsfa7'id). Australia, in B. M. 



a. Australia (2). b. Moreton Bay (3). c. New South 



Wales (2). d. New South Wales, van i. e. New South 



Wales, var. 2. f. Port Stephenson, var. 3. 



