76 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



obliquely rounded, light fuscous, with shadings of grey ; various 

 shades of fuscous and diffused black, dark ferruginous and 

 cupreous tinted scales, costal border dark fuscous and smoky 

 scales, especially toward base ; a dark ferruginous fuscous 

 suffused spot at ^ costa, a round discal ferruginous lined discal 

 spot at A, near to costa, containing light ground-colour space ; 

 a broad ferruginous fuscous band, bordered anteriorly by a 

 suffused light-grey from f costa to ^ inner margin ; a triangu- 

 lar discoidal spot ^th from costa ; immediately beyond this line 

 a small dark diffused spot at f costa ; a series of 8 dots from ^ 

 costa to f inner margin ; a white-grey wavy line from apex of 

 wing to i inner margin, bordered anteriorly by fuscous grey — 

 space between this and hindmargin dark fuscous shading to 

 lighter toward inner margin. Cilia, dark fuscous, tinted with 

 black. Hindwings fuscous, almost hidden by copper red, an 

 undulating black line from i costa to i inner margin ; anterior 

 space copper colour, posteriorly a fine light-grey line diffused 

 gradually to darker fuscous, tinted with cupreous in darkest 

 part, crossed by black dots on veins ; a lighter fuscous line ^ 

 costa to f inner margin ; this borders a broad dark smoky 

 cupreous fascia, which is scolloped on posterior border, where 

 it is bordered by a light cupreous line ; thence to hindmargin 

 fuscous tinted with cupreous. Cilia smoky grey. 

 Gippsland, Victoria; very rare. 



PORTHESIA f KllpJintstis ), FULVICEPS, 11 V?//,'. -^ : FuSCA 



Walk. : : Leucomelas Witlk. — Anacausta Mei/r. 

 ^ $. 28-45 mm. Head white ; face golden orange. 

 Antennae white or smoke colour, pectinations grey- white or 

 smoky black ; long in ^ , shorter in $. Thorax white, epaulettes 

 long and bushy, white. Abdomen white, with caudal segment 

 in female orange brown. Forewings ^ triangular, broadly 

 dilate (in ^ more elongate) ; costa gently rounded ; hindmargin 

 rounded, white, with a black or smoke colour rounded spot 

 just before anal angle, and almost touching inner border (in ^ 

 pure white). The undersurface in ^ is bhaded at the base and 

 along costa for one half, and thence throughout hind portion to 

 near hindmargin, narrowing towards inner margin into smoky 

 grey. In some <? specimens the upper surface of the forewings 

 is shaded with grey ; in others this is darkened into a broad 



