82 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



Forewings toangular, moderately dilate, costa nearly straight, 

 apex acute, hindmargin slightly scooped out beneath apex, 

 rounded, fuscous mottled, dusted and diffused with white-grey, 

 shades of fuscous, purple and salmon-pink, irregularly spotted 

 with black ; costa varied with grey and fuscous and black dots : 

 a dark fuscous line varied with darker dots, from |- costa rounded 

 and sinuous to ^ inner margin : a 2nd line or fascia of same 

 colour or chocolate fuscous from f costa, dentate in middle, to f 

 inner margin ; a 3rd diffused fascia of same colour and character 

 from f costa (obliquely angled and dentate at ^ from costa) 

 to f hindmargin, chocolate lighter and more diffused in costal 

 half ; a more or less distinct discal spot between 2nd and 3rd fascia, 

 two dots or blotches between fascia and hindmargin at ^ from 

 costa, and two small dots opposite anal angle ; hindmarginal 

 fourth of wing lighter ground-colour, shot with a purplish -white 

 hue, submarginal area darker in middle third and toward hind- 

 margin. Cilia fuscous, mixed with chocolate fuscous. Hind- 

 wings fuscous, shot on costal f with salmon-red ; inner third 

 shot with creamy-white and dusted with ferruginous and lines 

 and dots of fuscous ; a waved fuscous bar from ^ costa to ^ inner 

 margin ; a 2nd line from f costa to f inner margin, bordered 

 near inner margin with a white bar ; in some specimens diffused 

 into a long patch and speckled with ferruginous, a fuscous 

 shading more or less dusted with white, grey, aud purplish 

 shades ; also in one specimen a square chocolate patch near 

 anal angle of hindmargin. Cilia chocolate fuscous. Under- 

 surface of forewing with a large square blotch of smoky fuscous 

 in middle-third of wing, at its own distance from hindmargin ; 

 inner border of hindwings bordered by a white band which 

 shades into purple fuscous toward border. 



Mackay, Brisbane, Sydney ; three specimens. 



MoNOCTENIA TuRNERI, Sp.nOV. 



?. 42 mm. Head slaty grey. Palpi reddish-grey. An- 

 teniife black-red, pectinations short, fuscous-grey. Thorax 

 slaty grey, posteriorly wool colour, irrorated with blackish-grey ; 

 undersurface white, suffused with carmine. Legs red-grey, 

 tibisB banded with creamy white. Abdomen light slaty-grey, 

 dusted with black and fringed laterally with light carmine 



