80 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



Appears to be allied to I. luiluclihira, Mey. May be easily 

 distinguished by ferruginous cilia, by pale ferruginous discal 

 dots, and by double banded lines. 



. Brisbane ; one specimen, 1891. 



Hypochroma quadrilinea, sp.nov. 

 c?^. Bo-40 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen creamy drab. 

 Palpi black. Antennae grey. Forewings, costa nearly straight, 

 hindmargin rounded, creamy-grey or light creamy ochreous, 

 with more or less distinct dotted darker lines, dots, and suffu- 

 sions ; costal margin sparsely dotted with fuscous grey ; four 

 dark fuscous grey lines, 1st, from a black dot at ^ costa to ^ 

 inner margin, sinuous — in most specimens broken and more or 

 less indistinct ; 2nd line from h costa to a narrow black bar 

 joining 1st line on inner margin, and passing through two black 

 dots near costa. These lines enclose a triangular space, darker 

 on either border, and with a dark shading on whole inner half ; 

 a 3rd line from f costa, sinuous, more or less parallel with hind- 

 margin to inner margin at 4 ; -Ith line creuulate, immediately 

 beyond 3rd line, interrapted and more or less clouded by a 

 suffusion of middle third of wing, extending to hindmargin and 

 in a lighter shade to near inner margin ; in some specimens 

 a conspicuous semi-lunar black mark i from costa concave to 

 hindmargin ; a dark smoky crenulated hindmarginal line. Cilia 

 •creamy-grey, crossed by darker bars. Hindwings as forewings 

 with darker crenulate lines at \ and | ; the 2nd line with dark 

 fuscous spots on veins ; 3rd and 4tli lines lost in a suffusion in 

 hindmarginal 1th of wing, and diffused with dark smoky-grey, 

 or dusted with shades of grey ; hindmarginal black crenulated 

 line. Cilia as forewings. 



Brisbane to Mackay ; not common. 



Family MONOCTENIAD^. 

 ASPILATES OBLIQUATA, Sp.llOV. 



c?^. 20-21 mm. Head, palpi, antemui?, thorax and 

 abdomen ochreous fuscous. Forewings, costa rounded, apex 

 acute, hindmargin scooped out in costal half, inner half obliquely 

 rounded, light ochreous fuscous or straw colour, dusted pro- 

 fusely but faintly with I'ed fuscous dottings or interrupted very 

 fine lines ; costa with numerous minute dark pencillings ; 1st 



