12 STUDIES IN AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTEBA. 



Celama THYRIDOTA. 

 OvQidoTog, windowed. 

 Celama thyridota, Hmps. Cat. Lep. Phal., Suppl. i., p. 390. 



14-16 mm. Head white. Palpi 2| ; white external 

 surface suffused with pale fuscous. Antennae white ; in ^ 

 finely pectinated. Thorax white with some pale fuscous suf- 

 fusion. Abdomen grey-whitish, apices of segments white. 

 Legs white, with some fuscous irroration ; tarsi fuscous 

 annulated with white. Forewings triangular, costa nearly 

 straight to beyond middle, then rather abrupth' bowed, 

 apex rounded, termen obliquely rounded ; in ^ with a 

 large oval hyaline fovea in costal and posterior part of 

 cell, and a second narrower similar fovea between bases 

 of veins 6 and 7 ; white with some fuscous and brownish 

 irroration ; three raised tufts on costa, fuscous-brownish ^ 

 first near base ; second at J, its apex rounded, expanded, 

 dark-fuscous, preceding first fovea ; third shorter, its 

 rounded apex lying between the two foveas ; a dark-fuscous 

 dot beneath second tuft ; a fine dark fuscous transverse 

 line at |, with slight outward projections in middle and 

 above dorsum ; an irregularly dentate pale fuscous sub- 

 terminal line, with subcostal and median projections ; an 

 interrupted pale fuscous terminal line ; cilia white with 

 greyish specks. Hindwings with termen rounded ; grej^- 

 whitish ; cilia grey- whitish. 



Exactly like C. bifascialis, Wlk., which is found in the 

 same localities, except for the $ foveae. The only dif- 

 ference I can detect in the 9 is in the shape of the fore- 

 wings, but this may not be trustwo^th)^ 



Type in Coll. Turner. 



N.Q., Townsville, in May {$ type); Q., Brisbane 

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NOLA LECHRIOPA. 



XexutiTiog, oblique-looking. 



Nola lechriopa, Hmps. Cat. Lep. Phal., Suppl. i., p. 418 ; 

 PL 24, f. 10. 



^ 9 16-18 mm. Head whi^e, irrorated with grey. 

 Palpi 3 ; grey. Antennae grey-whitish ; in ^ with 



