the Australian Lymantriadm. 475 



edwardsi, Newm., Tr. Ent. Soc, 1856, p. 284, = togata, 

 Luc, Proc. Lin. Soc. N.S.W., 1891, p. 285. 



haliolalis, Swin., Cat. Oxf. Mus., i, p. 215. 



marginalis, Wlk., Brit. Mus. Cat,, iv, p. 845. 



liinbalis, H.-Sch., Ausser. Schmet., f. 389. 



niphohola, Turn., Tr. Roy. Soc. S.A., 1902, p. 179. 



euryzona, Low., Tr. Roy. Soc. S.A., 1902, p. 213. This 

 species is exceptional in having veins 3 and 4 of the 

 hind-wings stalked ; but this is also met with in 

 other species as an occasional abnormality. 



EUPROCTIS LEPTOTYPA, n. sp. 

 [\€ttt6tvttos, lightly marked.] 



(^. 23 mm., 5. 32 mm. Head, thorax, and antennse snow-white. 

 Palpi in ^ ochreous ; in $ white. Abdomen white ; tuft in ^ 

 ochreous. Legs white ; anterior coxse in ^ ochreous anteriorly. 

 Fore-wings snow-white ; dorsal cilia faintly tinged with ochreous- 

 fuscous in 9 ; a narrow interrupted pale ochreous-fuscous fascia out- 

 wardly curved from f costa to f dorsum, in 9 nearly obsolete ; cilia 

 snow-white. Hind-wings and celia snow-white. , 



Type in Coll. Turner. 



North Queensland, Townsville, in July ; three speci- 

 mens received from Mr, F. P. Dodd, who bred them from 

 larvae feeding on a variety of Acacia aulacocarpa. 



EuPROCTIS ERICYDES, n. sp. 

 [kpiKvhrjs, splendid.] 



5 . 46 mm. Head, thorax, and palpi bright ochreous. Antennae 

 fuscous, shaft towards base ochreous. Abdomen black ; tuft whitish- 

 ochreous, under-side mixed with ochreous. Legs ochreous. Fore- 

 wings black, with a clear yellow apical blotch ; cilia black, on apical 

 blotch yellow. Hind-wings bright orange ; basal third black ; cilia 

 orange. 



Type in Coll. Turner. 



North Queensland, Geraldton (Johnstone River), in 

 May ; one specimen received from Mr. Horace Brown. 



Genus Heracula. 



Heracula, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1865, p. 804; Hmpp., 

 Moths Ind., i, p. 458. 

 leoni7ia, Turn., Tr. Roy. Soc S.A., 1903, p. 17. 



