88 NEW SPECIES OE AUSTKALIAN LEPIDOPTEKA. 



black or dark brown discal spot beyond 1st line and nearer to 

 eosta ; a submarginal reddish-brown line bordered posteriorly by 

 a line of ground colour and by a marginal band of light fuscous. 

 Cilia brown, creamy white at base. Hindwings light wainscoat 

 ochreous with indistinct brown diffused lines at f and f ; a sub- 

 marginal dark-brown line bordered posteriorly by a band of 

 ground colour ; a light brown hhidmarginal band. Cilia creamy 

 wainscoat. 



Brisbane ; rare. 



Family FOCILLID.E. 

 Zethes consckipta, sp.nov. 



(? V . lG-23 mm. Head fuscous grey. Palpi fuscous grey, 

 apex tinted with black. Antemue grey.- Thorax fuscous grey. 

 Abdomen lighter grey. Forewmgs elongate, moderately dilate, 

 eosta basal half rounded, slightly waved, hindmargm apical 

 third scooped out, inner two-thirds obliquely rounded, greenish- 

 grey, marbled with white-grey, fuscous grey, smoky-grey and 

 black; a dot, in some specimens diffused at i eosta, subtends a 

 fine black line which runs obliquely to base near inner margin ; 

 a 2nd fuscous line at ^ eosta, rounded, dentate, and denticulate to 

 "I inner margin ; a Brd fuscous line immediately beyond and 

 almost parallel ; a 4th double fuscous line at f of eosta forms a 

 half circle to just before % hindmargin, a fine black dentate line 

 from the centre of this runs oblicpiely inward to ^ inner margin ;. 

 a short bar from centre of first line obliquely toward 2nd line ; 

 a long black bar from base near inner margin runs parallel to 

 inner margin as far as third line, often more or less wanting ; 

 in some specimens a grey shading or even fascia beyond third 

 line ; two short waved dentate lines before apex within seuii- 

 circle of 4th line and sometimes a suffused dot and blotch,. 

 a submarginal row of black dots, a fine black hindmarginal line. 

 Cilia light fuscous with tints of grey and black. Hindwings 

 fulvous grey, three more or less distinct wavy lines from just 

 before anal angle of innf-r margin toward eosta, at ^ lighter 

 toward eosta dark and spotted at inner margin : a dark spot at 

 anal angle subtending a light fulvous line across, wing ; a hind- 

 marginal lunulate fuseous line. Cilia fulvous fuscous crossed 

 by darker lines. 



Brisbane ; rare. 



