146 NEW SPECIES OF QUEENSLAND LEPIDOPTERA. 



to costa and inner margin in errant patches ; three or four 

 lines of same colour along hind margin ; five lunar marks ; 

 black marks along hind margin, diffused into thin lines toward 

 anal angle. Cilia fuscous with a basal ochreous line. Costal 

 half of hindmargin wavy. Hindwings as forewings, with 

 translucent figure elongated, crossed by veins 2, 3, and 4, bordered 

 anteriorly on inner portion with rich fuscous, breaking 

 into dots outwardly, bordered on posterior border with rich 

 fuscous black band, extending to inner margin, but interrupted 

 as dots to costa ; numerous dots of black over basal half of 

 wings, one or more blotches of fuscous before apex of costa ; 

 irregular subterminal black line on costal half of hindmargin. 

 Cilia as forewings. One specimen, Brisbane, at light. 



ASPIDOPTERA, NOV. GEN. 



Head and face with adpressed hairs. Antennae bipectinate, 

 to near apex, pectinations short. Palpi slender, with rough 

 scales, terminal joint short. Thorax hairy beneath. Forewings 

 9 and 10 stalked. Hindwings with 6 and 7 from a point, 

 8 coincident at base. Closely allied to Aspilates. 



ASPIDOPTERA NAVIGATA. NOV. SP. 



5 40 n\^i)\. Head and face, antenn* and palpi orange 

 ochreous streaked with fuscous. Thorax and abdomen light 

 fuscous ochreous. Forewings elongate triangular, costa gently 

 rounded, apex acutely prolonged, hindmargin nearly straight in 

 costal half, obliquely bowed to anal angle, ochreous fuscous, 

 diffused with orange fuscous, and freely dusted with black scales. 

 Costa freely irrorated with short black lines ; a series of five 

 black and fuscous equidistant transverse sinuous lines, more or 

 less parallel with hindmargin, the posterior ones somewhat 

 indistinct ; a broad deep waved fuscous band runs obliquely 

 through the wing from -^ inner margin to apex ; a light ochreous 

 discal spot at angle of third line and oblique central band ; the space 

 between first and second transverse bands is suffused with grey, 

 beyond the orange deepens, but the grey is again conspicuous on 

 hind border of oblique line and towards inner margin ; there are 

 a number of irregularly scattered black spots near the hind- 

 margin, and a pair of star rayed black dots opposite anal angle. 

 Cilia deep ferrous fuscous. Hindwings as forewings, hindmargin 

 straight for costal half, then doubled at right angles, anal part 

 crenate ; the oblique band of forewings is continued from .^j costa 



