Heterocera from the Australian Region. 427 



blackish above ; venter with a central longitudinal clay-coloured 

 line. Expanse of wings, 49 mm. 



Viti Islands. 



This is one of the largest, and at the same time 

 strikingly coloured, of the Pijrales. 



Endotricha, Zell. 

 73. Endotricha annuligera, n. s. 

 General appearance of Locastra (L. arnica and alUes) ; primaries 

 greyish brown, with the central third creamy, subhyahne, bounded 

 by the usual lines, which are black ; the outer line broken up into 

 spots and of the usual angulated form ; four black annular costal 

 markings upon the central area ; a small cuneiform costal cream- 

 coloured spot beyond the outer line, in continuation of the central 

 belt; reniform spot represented by a curved clavate brownish 

 outline ; fringe micaceous-grey, with a basal black-spotted cream- 

 coloured line ; secondaries cream-coloured, with the external third 

 irregularly grey-brown ; ft-inge as in the primaries ; head and 

 front of thorax brown, mottled with whitish and pale testaceous ; 

 back of thorax white; abdomen white, with a large slightly 

 greyish scutiform central patch, partly margined and dotted with 

 black-brown; primaries with markings as above, but the black 

 lines on the primaries replaced by grey, and the basal area cream- 

 coloured ; body below creamy white. Expanse of wings, 17 mm. 



Peak Downs. 



Though much unlike the known species of Endotricha 

 in colonition, this species appears to belong to that 

 genus. 



74. Endotricha obscura, n. s. 



5. Nearest to E. docilisalis; considerably smaller, with 

 differently coloured fringes and differently formed lines across the 

 secondaries on the under surface; upper surface shining dark 

 lilacine-grey, costa of primaries golden brown, with a very slender 

 black edge dotted with yellow; a faintly indicated arched line 

 across the basal third; a slender slaty grey submarginal line, 

 internally white-edged at costa; fringe bright golden chrome- 

 yellow tipped with silvery white, replaced by shining cupreous 

 tipped with lilacine at apex, in tlie middle and at external angle, the 

 two latter patches of deeper colour being moreover connected by a 

 partly confluent series of plum-coloured dots near the base of the 

 fringe ; SGCondaries with pearl-white costal area ; faint indications 



