66 DESCRIPTIONS OF QUEENSLAND LEPIDOPTRRA 



EUDOXYLA (zEIIZERa) COLUMELLARIS. SP. NOV. 



i ? n\iTi 56 — 64. Head fuscous groy with black and white 

 scales on crown. Antennae black, pectinations 1-3, apical 4th 

 plain, ? serrate. Thorax fuscous grey, irregularly bordered on 

 dorsum with broken bands of black and irrorated Avith white. 

 Abdomen grey ppil^ 20 long. Forewings costa gently rounded ; 

 hind margin obliquely rounded, fuscous grey, mottled with white 

 and looped with black lines, straight, angled, and curved, 

 between veins ; there is a darker suffusion from one-fourth inner 

 margin and obliquely to apex of hind margin. Cilia black. 

 Hindwings ochreous. The forewings are broader and whiter 

 than either E. irretita or E. punctifimbria, and the nuirkings are 

 longer. The hindwings in E. irretita are white, in p]. puncti- 

 fimbria they are smoky black, and in E. collumellaris light 

 ochreous, or ochreous grey. A pair, Brisbane. 



EUDOXYLA (ZEUZERA) INSULANA. SP. NOV. 



4 7H_ 711^88 — 96, ? 108 — 130. Head black, grey on crown 

 and face. Antenna' black t pectinations 1-4, apical fourth plain, 

 ? plain serratulate. Thorax fuscous grey, mottled Avith black 

 grey, rich fuscous on shoulders of some specimens, and dark 

 fuscous and black on dorsum — very variable. Abdomen fuscous 

 grey, mottled with grey and bands of black, i 25 ¥ 35 ]]{)){ long, 

 flat. Forewings costa gently rounded, hind margin obliquely 

 straight, fuscous grey handsomely irrorated with Idack and 

 shades of grey and scattered pencil dots of white; wings pencilled 

 with rich black lines along the veins, multiplied between veins, 

 and united irregularly by short connecting cross-bar lines ; in ^ 

 this is largely hidden by the thickening of the lines into fascia' and 

 by a rich suffusion of black and fuscous grey; the wings, especially 

 ^, resemble insulated rocks or islands surrounded by niud-l)anks; 

 a large patch of such, as a darkened fascia, extends from near 

 base of costa to before one-half costa, with hind border obli(|uely 

 toward anal angle as far as one-third from costa, thence to hind 

 margin just before apex. The dark colouration includes the 

 whole centre of wing, with the apical costal half of the wing, 

 the hind and inner borders, and a patch from base of wing/ 

 toAvard centre intruded ground colour ; a hind-marginal roAV of 

 black bars along A^eins arch together into dark fasciee, and are 



