78 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



Formerly taken at Williamstown, Melbourne, by Mr. Ker- 

 shaw. 



Family COSSID^. 

 Zeuzera tripartita, sp.nov. 



(?^. 44-50 mm. Head bluish grey. Palpi fuscous. 

 Antennae fuscous grey, pectinations fuscous black, narrowing 

 towards base and toward -J the stalk, terminal half of stalk 

 simple. Thorax bluish grey, dusted with black, and with a 

 black bar on dorsum anteriorly, which bar is prolonged back- 

 ward on either side in a fine line along side of dorsum and is 

 contracted inwards at one-third. Abdomen light-blue grey. 

 Forewings very elongate, costa wavy, hindmargin obliquely 

 rounded, reddish fuscous, dusted with light blue-grey, and 

 hieroglyphed in fine interrupted black lines between the veins ; 

 costa with thick black line, attenuated to near base, and reaching 

 to ^ costa, making the base of an irregular triangle with apex ^ 

 from costa pointing to inner margin ; four dots running into 

 fine lines immediately beyond ; a broad black bar at f costa, 

 extending half distance to middle of hindmargin, thence 

 bifurcated toward apex and toward anal angle of hindmargin, and 

 diffused with hieroglyphic lines ; a hindmarginal row of dots on 

 veins ; cilia light-grey. Hindwdngs light fuscous, dusted with 

 grey, and with indistinct hieroglyphic fuscous lines. Cilia as 

 forewings. 



Brisbane ; very rare. 



A difficult moth to preserve, so easily turning greasy. 

 Family NOTODONTID^. 

 NoTODONTA cinerea, sp.nov. 



<?^. 42-54 mm. Head grey. Antennae light fuscous. 

 Thorax grey, mottled on the dorsum with brown, and posteriorly 

 with black. Abdomen grey, base of segments light fuscous. 

 Forewings elongate, moderately dilate ; costa rounded ; hind- 

 max'gin finely waved, grey, mottled with greyish Avhite, and with 

 shades of fuscous black. Veins dark grey or nearly black. A 

 sharply-defined black line, twice dentate, from costa just beyond 

 base obliquely to median vein ; this is often indistinct or absent ; 

 a 2nd black line, with seven acute dentations, from | costa, 

 to ^ inner margin ; a 3rd black line from f costa, many times 

 denticulate, runs obliquely half the distance towards centre of 



