54 STUDIES IN AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



dividing veinlets ; a row in each interneiiral ppace, a 

 dorsal and a terminal row, both blackish ; cilia whitish, 

 on spots blackish and ]uS:trous. Hindwings narrow, termen 

 sinuate, tornus strongly produced ; vein 6 from below upper 

 angle of cell, parallel with 7 ; colour and cilia as forewings ; 

 a terminal series of minute spots similar to those on fore- 

 wings, on tornal projection and just beyond these are 

 fused into an elongate spot. 



Type in Coll. Turner. 



N.Q., Kuranda, near Cairns : two specimens received 

 from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



Xyleutes olbia, n. sj). 

 oX^iog, happy. 



(J 90 mm., 9 135 mm. Head and palpi dark-fuscous 

 irrorated with whitish. Antennse Avhitish with dark -fuscous 

 irroration, in $ dark-fuscous ; pectinations in ^ 6, dark- 

 fuscous, apical I simple. Thorax dark-fuscous with a few 

 whitish scales, patagia except bases densel^^ irrorated with 

 whitish. Abdomen dark-fu.scous, apices of segments grey- 

 whitish ; apical segments and tuft grey- whitish. Legs 

 fuscous irrorated with grey-Avhitish ; tarsi dark-fuscous 

 with whitish rings. Forewings elongate, not dilated, 

 costa nearly straight, apex rounded, termen scarcely 

 rounded, strongly oblique, dorsum sinuate ; pale grey, 

 towards apex and termen grey-whitish, markings blackish; 

 a series of spots on basal half of costa more or less confluent ; 

 a subcostal basal blotch Avith irregular outline ; a series 

 of fine transverse streaks through mid-disc as far as middle ; 

 a longitudinal streak above middle third of dorsum ; a 

 network at mid-disc, connected by a thick blackish 

 irregular streak to termen beneath apex ; between this 

 streak and termen is a netAvork extending to tornus ; cilia 

 whitish, barred Avith fuscous. HindA\ings Avith apex 

 narrowly rounded, pointed, termen nearly straight, tornus 

 somcAvhat prominent ; pale grey Avith some fuscous 

 irroration and a netAvork between middle of disc and middle 

 half of termen. 



Type in Coll. Turner. 



N.Q., Kuranda, near Cairns, in October ; tAvo specimens 

 received from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



