84 QUEENSLAND I.El'IDOPTERA 



ochreous fuscous. Antennae fuscous. Thorax and abdomen 

 ochreous fuscous. Forewings costa gently rounded, hind- 

 margin rounded, ochreous fuscous with transverse wavy 

 lines of darker fuscous, scales of fuscous, and markings black. 

 Forewings with scattered black dots near base ; a large D-shaped 

 discal spot black with a projection from middle posteriorly ; a 

 wavy dark line before this from i costa obliquely to >; inner 

 margin ; a like line not so well defined near base, but interrupted 

 and not so well seen in all specimens , a broad blackish diffused 

 square on costa before apex, subtending numbers of river-like 

 winding channels parellel with hindmargin to inner margin ; a 

 dark dot close to median before middle, and difitused dots along 

 median fold ; short striguhe in hindmarginal portion of wing ; a 

 hindmarginal dark fuscous line. Cilia ochreous fuscous. Hind- 

 wings as forewings, without blotches, and with lines sufiufed as 

 darker shade towards borders. Cilia as forewings. Two specimens, 

 Brisbane, at light. Mr. lUidge has also taken it near Brisbane. 



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PILOSTFHES SERPTA, NOV. SP. 



5 27 111. 1)^. Head palpi, and thorax snow white. Antennja 

 white, shading to fuscous beyond base. Abdomen ochreous 

 grey, with a band of orange red near edge of each segment. 

 Forewing gently dilate, costa rounded, hind margin obliquely 

 rounded, light ochreous fuscous, with central and marginal 

 diffusions of darker fuscous, markings black or white and dark 

 fuscous. Forewings with a subcostal black line from near base 

 to beyond h costa, interrupted near base and dotted with 

 white dots throughout ; a band of ground colour suffused with 

 bluish white separates this costal line from a median fuscous 

 diffusion ; in this darker area are two circuitous white lined 

 rounded tigures answering to discal and orbital, outline gently 

 undulating in and out and containing darker fuscous toward 

 costa ; and with white dots scattered between figures, and a 

 winding white line anterior to second figure, which turning 

 sharply, circles obliquely to just before anal angle of inner 

 margin ; central fascia attenuated to a spear-like prominence 

 beyond the second figure. Cilia light fuscous with an inner 

 darker band. Hindwings light fuscous, lighter toward inner 

 margin. Cilia dark fuscous. One specimen bred from a 

 scrub tree. May Orchard, Brisbane. 



CRYPTOPHAGA PHYCIDOIDES, NOV, SP. 



5 30 ni j)[. Head white. Palpi ochreous fuscous. Anten- 



