158 NEW SPECIES OF QUEENSLAND LEPIDOPTERA. 



IJCHENAULA TORTRICIFORMIS, NOV, HP. 



$ 17 npiv Head fuscous drab. Palpi and antennae fuscous. 

 Thorax grey, Abdomen fuscous with grey band at base of seg- 

 ments. Forewings costa arched, apex acute, hindmargin 

 rounded, silvery grey, freely irrorated with fuscous and marked 

 with red fuscous and black. Forewings with a costal row of 

 blackish fuscous spots, or breaking into scattered dots from base 

 to I costa, but not touching costal edge ; a transverse ferrous 

 fuscous fascia from .1 costa diffused across wing, and shaded with 

 scattered black dots and fuscous scales ; this fascia is diffused 

 broadly and irregularly to apex, and more or less continuously 

 over costal half of hindmargin ; numerous black dots and short 

 fuscous lines on veins toward hindmargin. Cilia fuscous, pale 

 grey at base. Hindwings light fuscous grey. Cilia as fore- 

 wings. May Orchard, Brisbane. 



CLEXARCHA DRYINOPA. JIEYR. 



May Orchard, Brisbane. 



XYLORIC'TA LYCHNOBII. SP. NOV. 



$ 21 iiU'l- Head, palpi, and antennae white. Legs white, 

 tarsi annulated with fuscous bands, posterior tibiae densely 

 hairy. Thorax white, suffused with very light lilac posteriorly. 

 Abdomen metallic grey with a r/ifonlclienil design of ferrous dots 

 and spots posteriorly across the middle segments. Forewings 

 moderately dilate, costa rounded, apex obtusely rounded, hind- 

 margin obliquely rounded, white, suffused with a beautiful light 

 lilac, and freely speckled with grey, the grey ceasing towards 

 base, markings metallic drab. Forewings with a narrow costal 

 line, creamy white, thinning out to apex, and finely bounded 

 towards base by a black margin ; a curved circular metallic drab 

 line of dots, interrupted in fold, from beyond ^ costa to just 

 before | inner margin, thence anteriorly along inner margin, where 

 it joins the angle of a triangular blotch and suffusion of the same 

 colour, this triangle reaches to within ^ of base, separating from . 

 the inner margin towards centre of wing, where it forms a darker 

 apex to before middle of wing, posteriorly the base of the 

 triangle becomes lighter tinted with ochreous. Cilia metallic 

 drab with a whiiish band through the middle. Hindwings ashy 

 »rey, tinted with ochreous, with the veins outlined with fuscous. 

 Cilia ashy grey. The transverse circular line which runs to join 

 the broken triangle of same colour on inner margin specially 

 characterises this species. Brisbane, bred. 



