448 Colonel C. Swinhoe's Revision of the 



small brown lunular mark at upper end of cell ; pectus and legs 

 brownish-grey, with some crimson hairs ; abdomen white. 

 Expanse of wings 2i'^ inches. 



Hab. Sherlock River, W. Australia (Clement). 

 Of the shape of stygiana, Butler. 



Anthela stygiana. 



Darala stygiana, Butler, Ann. Mag. N. H. (5), ix, p. 88 

 (1882). 



1 $, Melbourne (type). 

 Anthela tritonea, nov. 



$ . Antennae black, shafts pale red ; paljii and frons black 

 ochreous at the sides ; head brown ; thorax and abdomen covered 

 with very dark blackish-chestnut hairs with a bronzed tint ; in the 

 female the thorax is covered with grey and white hairs ; the 

 abdomen is coloured like that of the male, but the segments are 

 ringed with long crimson hairs ; fore-wings black, minutely and 

 very densely irrorated with grey, crossed by three black bands rather 

 close together in the middle of the wing, the first outwardly and 

 irregularly curved, the other two nearly erect, the last including a 

 small pale spot at the end of the cell ; another transverse black band 

 in the disc, sinuated, almost crenulate, outwardly edged with white, 

 and close to it a prominent white semi-dentate band, which runs 

 from close to apex to a little in front of the hinder angle ; hind- 

 wings pale brown tinged with ochreous, especially towards the base, 

 where there is a bunch of dark chestnut hairs in the male ; a broad 

 darker brown transverse straight band before the middle, a duplex 

 whitish sinuated thin band before the blackish border ; under-side 

 Avhitish irrorated with pale black ; a white spot in cell of fore- 

 wings, another at the end, both ringed with brown ; a brown even 

 band across end of cell, and continued across both wings ; a discal 

 sinuate thinner band; an inner brown spot on hind-wings ; thorax 

 and legs dark chestnut-brown, with some crimson hairs ; abdomen 

 white. 



Expanse of wings (;J 4, $ 4 {^ inches. 



Hob. Queensland. 



These examples were presented in 1896 by Mr. Wailley : 

 they seem to be allied to A. magnified, Lucas, Proc. Linn. 

 Soc. N. S. W. (2), vi, p. 286, but differ in many characters 

 from Lucas's description ; they are the largest examples of 

 the genus I think yet recorded. 



