90 NEW SPECIES OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



Abdomen silky grey fuscous. Fore wings broadly dilate, costa 

 slightly wavy, hindmargin rounded, fuscous or fuscous drab, witli 

 shadings of grey and fine dotted and interrupted irregular trans- 

 verse wavy black lines chiefly on basal half and hiudmarginal fourth ; 

 a broad dark sepia fascia, anterior border beyond -i- costa to i 

 inner margin, posterior border f costa to f inner margin and 

 gradually shaded to f inner margin ; in some specimens there is 

 a purple or violet shading ; a transverse dark line more or less 

 distinct passes through the centre of this band or fascia, a black 

 dot on the hind border i from costa ; a hindmarginal row of 

 black dots. Cilia reddish fuscous, darker in median line. Hind- 

 wings as forewings, the dark band oi' fascia filling middle third 

 of the wing, shading toward hindmargin and becoming light viole 

 towards apex. Cilia as forewings ; a tuft of long hairs on under, 

 side of forewings to protect upper costal margin of hindwings 

 in flight. This species varies in colour — some specimens being 

 light-fawn colour, others ochreous brown. 



Brisbane ; rare. 



Family DELTOID.E. 

 Herminia delicata, sp.nov. 



S ? . 26-34 mm. Head, palpi, antemue, thorax and abdo- 

 men light wainscoat or fuscous drab. Forewings, costa gently 

 rounded, apex acute, hindmargin rounded, fuscous drab, with 

 darker suffused fuscous at ^ and before hindmargin ; a fine dark 

 fuscous line lighter on posterior border from apex of costa in a 

 semicircle to anal angle ; a dark crenulate hindmarginal line 

 bordered posteriorly with a lighter drab line. Cilia fuscous 

 drab. Hindwings as forewings, darker toward hindmargin 

 round vein 4, a very light line from f costa to f hindmargin ; a 

 scalloped line bordered by a lighter line from ^ costa goes to 

 meet a second and darker scalloped line also bordered by a 

 lighter line which comes from apex of costa at vein 4 of hind- 

 margin and becomes lighter toward anal angle. Cilia as fore- 

 wings. Lines darker on undersurface. 



Brisbane. 



Group PYRALIDINA. 



Family SICULODID.E. 



SiCULODES hemicycla, Mci/r. 



I found this species, new to science, seven years agoin Fiji, 



