BY A. JEFFERIS TURNER. 39 



with pale-fuscouR markings, and pale-ochreous spots ; a 

 dentate transverse line at ^ ; a pale -centred discal spot 

 before middle ; a dentate line from | eosta, obsolete 

 towards dorsum, preceded and followed by some small 

 pale-ochreous spots ; a subterminal series of pale-fuscous 

 spots, succeeded by a series of pale-ochreous spots ; cilia 

 pale -fuscous. Hind wings with termen slightly sinuate ; 

 colour and markings as forewings but lines not dentate. 



In its peculiar colouring and faint ill-defined markings 

 this species is not like any other. 



Type in Coll. Turner. 



N.A., Port Darwin, in October ; one specimen received 

 from Mr. F. P. Dodd, with the note that the larva is an 

 internal feeder in a species of scrub cane. 



Sylepta polytimeta, n. sp. 



noXvcipLrfTOQ, precious. 



$ 25 mm. Head yellow ; face whitish-yellow. Palpi 

 whitish-yellow ; basal joint black. Antennae whitish- 

 ochreous ; ciliations in (J 1. Tho'rax yellow. Abdomen 

 yellow, apices of segments white, but apices of ninth and 

 tenth segments black. Legs whitish-yellow ; anterior tarsi, 

 apex of anterior tibiae and base of anterior and middle 

 tibiae annulated with black. Forewings triangulai, costa 

 straight, gently aiched beyond middle, apex round-pointed, 

 termen slightly bowed, oblique ; whitish with fiva partly- 

 connected deep-yellow transverse fasciae, near base, at \, 

 at middle, ai; |, and on termen ; four conspicuous black 

 .''pots, on costa near base, on costa at |, in disc beneath 

 midcosta, and on costa at | ; a fine blackish teiminal line, 

 broader beneath apex ; cilia whitish. Hindwings with 

 termen slightly sinuate ; as forewings but with only four 

 yellow fasciae, which are obsolete towards costa, and with 

 only one black spot at apex. 



Type in Coll. Turner. 



N.A., Port Darwin, in December ; one specimen 

 received from Mr. F. P. Dodd, and I have seen another 

 from the same locality. 



