76 DESCRIPTIONS OF QUEENSLAND LEPIDOPTERA. 



two-third costa obliquely to suffusion before anal angle of hind 

 margin, a hind-marginal row of arched minute velvety fuscous 

 dots, shading toward anal angle — hind-marginal line dark. Cilia 

 fuscous. Hind wings almost square, drab, covered with fuscous 

 scales, and marked with darker lines and shadings ; two black 

 lines form half-squares broadly parallel with hind margin, and 

 with diffused shade in posterior angle, these fill the basal half of 

 wing ; a dark wavy suffusion is spread out beyond the square at 

 half distance to hind margin, becoming lighter towards anal 

 angle ; a sub-marginal line of broken black curves. Cilia fuscous. 

 Brisbane. 



EROSIA THECLATA GN. 



Brisbane. 



EROSIA STOLIDA BUTL. 



Brisbane. 



EROSIA (?) REG.ALIS. SP. NOV. 



$ ? Ill 111- -11. Head, palpi, antennae stone drab. Thorax 

 stone drab with narrow lighter band on collar and lighter scales 

 posteriorly on dorsum. Abdomen grey with blackish scales 

 posteriorly and laterally. Forewings costa straight, apex rounded, 

 hind margin apical third dentate, sinuous, thence obliquely 

 rounded, inner margin bowed inwards, stone drab with numerous 

 scattered black scales and shading of fuscous ; a dark fuscous 

 transverse line parallel with hind margin from two-fifth costa to 

 two-fifth inner margin, a second line from two-third costa to half 

 inner margin, the space enclosed and lines on inner half are 

 covered with rich ferrous fuscous shading along second line 

 toward costa and enclosing a broad white bar shaded with ferrous 

 on inner half of first line, and a similar bar bordering middle 

 third of second line ; a rich ferrous blotch at five-sixth costa ; a 

 .shading fuscous line bordered by slaty grey, but neither colour 

 definite from seven-eight inner margin and shading from median 

 fold with second line before costa. Cilia ferrous fuscous. Hind- 

 wings costa scolloped, apex acute, hind margin scooped one-third 

 thence gently rounded, as forewings, with first transverse ferrous 

 fuscous line two-fifth costa to two-fifth inner margin, with a 

 white dot in a black ring in disc, second line two-third costa to 

 two-third inner margin, not well defined, but with a short white 

 bar or chain of dots in centre, shaded on either side and along 

 middle third of wing to^va^d base with chocolate fuscous. Cilia 



