154 NKW SPECIES OF QUEENSLAND LEPIUOPTERA. 



species they are rich ochreous fuscous ; the thorax has in this 

 species a ferrous band and special prominent white crests, and 

 the abdomen of the $ is black, not white ; all legs are white. 



CRYPTOPHAGA MOLARIS. NOV. SP. 



5 ? 29—80 W- Head and face whitish grey. Palpi 

 fuscous, second and terminal joints light grey. Antennae white, 

 pectinations ochreous fuscous. Thorax white, with a light grey 

 fringe behind collar, and dusted laterally and posteriorly with 

 fuscous and grey. Abdomen fuscous drab, fringed anteriorly with 

 ochreous hairs from thorax, with a light ferrous band on second 

 segment. Legs fuscous drab. Forewings elongate, costa nearly 

 straight, hind margin straight, rounded at anal angle, fuscous 

 drab, freely marked with black and grey. Forewings with inter- 

 rupted fine lines of white along half to three-fourths of costa ; 

 the costal half of wing is irregularly diffused with rich black, the 

 inner half and base of wing is freely irrorated with white, this white 

 arches toward costa at base, and extends as a line to near costa 

 just before apex ; a subterminal band of ground colour, bordered 

 by a terminal line of light black dots. Cilia grey white, with a 

 brown border. Hindwings fuscous drab. Cilia fuscous grey 

 with a light brown line through base. Allied to L, fumata, 

 Turner, but easily distinguished by the whole costal half of fore- 

 wings being blotched more or less irregularly with black, and 

 the inner half being freely irrorated with white. May Orchard, 

 Brisbane, at light. 



CATORYCTIS EMARGINATA. NOV. SP. 



J 14 TT[TT[. Head white. Palpi white. Antennse fuscous. 

 Thorax white, collar narrowly fuscous. Abdomen ochreous 

 fuscous. Forewings elongate, costa gently rounded, hind- 

 margin obliquely rounded, whitish ochreous with markings 

 white and ochreous fuscous. Forewings with broad white band 

 on costal border, from base, to and attenuating towards 

 f of costa ; a second white band commencing just below, 

 opposite apical end of first runs to apex ; a broad fuscous band 

 separates, and encloses these two white bands on inner border ; 

 a small tritingular fuscous blotch in disc, two linear spots 

 opposite ends of white bands ; a pale sufi'usion along disc, and a 

 conspicuous fuscous blotch before anal angle ; a suffusion of 

 fuscous along inner margin ; and an oblique hindmarginal line 



