S6 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



with mottled markings of purple-grey, iron-grey and sepia 

 shadings all over ground colour ; a black discal spot at f , at a 

 distance of one-fourth from costa, bordered in t? with fuscous 

 red and ground colour, and fine interrupted lines of black dots, 

 the last less distinct in ? ; a number of denticulate sinuous 

 transverse black lines ; 1st near base, followed by two or three 

 interrupted lines from a broad bar on costa to ^, less conspicuous 

 or more or less absent in ? ; an irregular shading of black into 

 sepia, from near base through middle third of wing to | where it 

 approaches inner border ; this is crossed by lines and shades of 

 black, ground colour and sepia, less variegated in ? ; a sinuous 

 zigzag black line from | costa to f inner margin, bordered 

 posteriorly with a ground colour line, and another similar line 

 near hindmargin ; between these two lines is a diffusion of 

 fuscous, grey or sepia, with patches, dots or lines of ground 

 ■colour, darker in ? ; a submarginal row of sepia round dots 

 bordered on either side by ground colour ; a wavy hindmarginal 

 black line. Cilia light fuscous or iron-grey, with two dark lines 

 ■crossing. Hindwings translucent greyish-white, hindmargin 

 broadly smoke-colour ; in <? narrowing to inner margin, in ? 

 only a line. Cilia very light-grey, with one or two darker lines 

 •crossing. 



Family HYPOGRAMMID.E. 

 Hypogeajima distincta, sp.nov. 



? (? . 40-48 mm. Head and palpi smoky grey. Antennae 

 ■dr-ab-grey ; pectinations very short. Thorax ashy grey, epau- 

 lettes iron grey. Abdomen and legs ashy grey. Forewings 

 elongate, gently dilate, costa slightly waved, hindmargin 

 rounded, oblique : white grey, marbled by different shades of grey, 

 fulvous and black ; costa with grey dots and lines ; basal fifth of 

 wnng pearly-white, slightly dusted with grey and with a small 

 •dot of fulvous on inner margin at i and bounded posteriorly by 

 a sharply-defined waved double black line from i costa to ^ 

 inner margin, darkest and diverged at costa ; a second sharply- 

 defined black wavy line from f costa to anal angle of inner 

 margin, darkest at costa — this, with the first line, encloses the 

 darkest half of the wing, and is mottled with fuscous shadings, 

 iron-grey interrupted and dotted lines and short black lines, 



