30 STUDIES IN AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



angular spots more or less confluent, forming interrupted 

 antemedian, postmedian, an(l subterminal lines, '^he last 

 connected with mid-termen ; hindwings marked as on 

 upper side. 



Type in Coll Turner. 



N.A., Port Darwin ; one specimen received from Mr. 

 G. F. Hill. 



Abdma aneranna, n. sp. 

 dvegavvog, unlovely. 



9 17 mm. Head, palpi, and antennae ochreous- 

 whitish. Thorax and abdomen ochreous-grey-whitish. 

 Legs ochreous-whitish ; tarsi annulated with fuscous. 

 Forewings triangular, costa straight, beyond middle slightly 

 sinuate, apex acute and slightly produced, oermen sinuate 

 b;neatli apex, then strongly bowed, oblique; ochieous- 

 whitish, markings pale browmsh-fuscous ; costa finely 

 strigulated ; an ill-defined basal patch ; a postmedian fascia, 

 well defined towards costa, towards dorsum lost in a 

 strigulated dark shade which extends broadly along tornus 

 and termen to beneath apex ; cilia ochreous-whitish. 

 Hind wings triangular, apex round-pointed, termen straight ; 

 as forewings but without basal patch and postmedian 

 fascia. Underside similar but more distinct. 



Type in Coll. Turn.-r. 



N.A.. Port Darwin ; one specimen received from Mr. 

 F. P. Dodd. 



F?m. PYRALIDiE. 



Subfam. Crambinae. 



Platytes idioptila, n. sp. 



idionxiXog, with peculiar wing. 



(J 44 mm. Head whitish. Palpi 3 ; pale ochreous- 

 brown, upper edge and internal surface whitish. Antennae 

 ochreous-Avhitish, beneath pale fuscous ; in ^ somewhat 

 thickened and flattened. Thorax whitish, patagia reddish- 

 brown. Abdomen whitish. Legs whitish ; anterior pair 

 ochreous-brown anteriorly. Forewings elongate, not 

 dilated, costa moderately arched, apex rounded, tornus 

 deepl}' incised at vein 3, the incision overhung by a hooklike 



