86 QUEENSLAND LEProOPTERA 



cloudy fascia of ferruginous extends more or less diftusedly round 

 the margin of wing to anal angle ; a more diffused cloud of same 

 colour runs along whole length of inner margin, but shows more 

 of ground colour, and with median band encloses a strip of 

 gronnd colour ; a dark ferruginous spot in disc, and second 

 smaller just beyond ; a costal, apical and hindmarginal inter- 

 rupted line of dark spots and lines bound a patch of ground 

 colour continuous with subcostal, and enclosing a short trans- 

 verse ferruginous fascia which commingles with median fascia. 

 Cilia ochreous, barred irregularly with fuscous. Hindwings, 

 smoky fuscous, shaded to ochreous toward base. Cilia as fore- 

 wings. This is a most variable species, according to the depth 

 or sparsity of ground colour. In some specimens the thorax is 

 deep ferrous, in others pure white. In some the ground colour 

 of the wings is white over large patches, and the ferrous colour- 

 ing in snch specimens is more limited. It is only by comparing 

 my full series of eight specimens that the species can be described 

 with anything like accuracy. I'nfortunately, Meyrick described 

 C. dryionopa from a single female, and my specimens, named by 

 himself, do not tally at all well with his description. The species 

 here described is narrower in the forewings than dryionopa and 

 all the markings aro more definite and distinct in pattern. At 

 first I believed there must be two or three species or varieties, 

 but as in any others of this family the variation is extreme with 

 intermediate forms, because of droughts, winds and other causes 

 which interfere with the perfect development of the colouration. 

 May Orchard, Brisbane. 



XYLORICTA CORTICANA NOV. SP. 



S 5 24-28 111^ 111^. Head, light grey. Palpi, fuscous. 

 Antennae light fuscous. Thorax and abdomen, light grey. 

 Forewings elongate, costa rounded, hindmargin very obliquely 

 rounded, silvery white, ground colour almost lost in covering of 

 grey scales ; veins shaded fuscous grey ; a white discal spot at 

 -J, followed posteriorly by a small fuscous ring ; a diffusion 

 of scattered light fuscous scales through centre of wing and 

 along fold, most freely toward apex. Cilia grey, with bars of 

 fuscuous opposite veins. Hindwings as forewings. Cilia as 

 forewings, with a dividing fuscous line near base — one pair. 

 Bellenden-Ker, Lucas-Rye Expedition. 



LICHENAULA STERNOIBES, XOV. SP. 



$ 20111^ TTI^. Head white. Palpi white, fuscous at the tip. 

 Antennae very fine fuscous and white annulated. Thorax 



