BY A. JEFFERIS TURNER, M.D., F.E.S. 143- 



oblique at J, second less oblique at middle, third trans- 

 verse at I, fourth transverse sub-apical ; a fuscous sub- 

 terminal line ; cilia whitish, bases and apices fuscous.. 

 Hindwings with termen indented at \ from apex ; whitish ; 

 a fuscous suffusion on dorsal part of disc before middle, 

 a broad terminal suffusion, and a small suffusion on tornus ; 

 cilia as fore wings. 



Type in Coll., Turner. 



Q. Stradbroke Island, in x\ugust ; six specimens,, 

 taken in a swami) at dusk. 



Agrotera glycyphanes, n. sp. 



ykr>Kvcfiavq<;, of swect appearance. 



9 22 mm. Head pale-yellow with two posterior 

 orange spots ; face with three orange dots, one on upper 

 and two on lower edge. Palpi pale-yellow with four orange 

 bars on outer surface, the last apical. Antennae pale- 

 brown ; basal joint pale-yellow with an orange dot at apex- 

 Thorax pale-yellow reticulated v^'ith orange. Abdomeiii 

 whitish-ochreous, dorsum of basal segments barred and 

 of apical segments suffused with orange. Legs whitish ;. 

 anterior and middle tibiae suffused with orange ; 

 anterior tarsi white except two apical segments which 

 are dark-fuscous. Fore wings triangular, costa straight for 

 f, then strongly arched, apex rounded, termen slightly 

 bowed, oblique ; pale- brown with a purple gloss ; basal 

 third pale- yellow reticulated with orange, bounded by 

 a crenate orange line ; a large round pale- yellow sjiot 

 beneath costa at f , edged and irrorated with orange ; a 

 similar but much smaller spot beneath this ; a pale-orange 

 streak along costa from J to apex ; a fine fuscous line from 

 I costa obliquely outwa,rds then bent to form a quadrangular 

 projection, bent again to beneath second spot, thence to f 

 dorsum ; an interrupted fuscous terminal line ; cilia whitish 

 with a brown sub-basal line. Hindwing with termen 

 slightly sinuate ; as forewings ; but basal patch defined 

 only towards dorsum ; no subcostal spots ; postmedian 

 line edged externally with orange, and with three confluent 

 yellow spots on dorsal extremity. 



Type in Coll., Turner, 



N.A. Port Darwin, in January : one specimen received 

 from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



