U6 



New Australian Lepidoptera. 



By Oswald B. Lower, F.E.S. 



[Read May 2, 1893.] 



Rhopaloeera. 



SATYRID.E. 



Heteronympha paradelpha, n. sp. 



Male and female, 54 64 mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen 

 yellowish-brown. Palpi whitish, clothed with blackish hairs 

 beneath, especially towards apex. Antennae fuscous, annulated 

 with white. Legs whitish-ochreous. Anterior tibiae fuscous. 

 Fore wings triangular, costa gently arched, more strongly in 

 male ; hindmargin rounded, oblique, more so in male ; dark- 

 fuscous, with twelve orange spots, arranged as follows : — First, 

 costal, elongate from base to about middle, leaving extreme 

 costal edge fuscous ; second, sphenoid, immediately above inner 

 margin, from base to near middle, suffused with ground-colour in 

 middle, more so in male ; third, just beyond second, semiovate 

 (irregular), touching second on lower half ; fourth, just beyond 

 third, above anal angle, irregular diamond-shaped, in male 

 anteriorly indented in middle; fifth, immediately beneath posterior 

 angle of first, irregular-sphenoid, contracted in middle, in male 

 upper portion very narrow, almost, if not quite, separated by ground- 

 colour ; seventh, near apex, irregular-ovate, posteriorly obtuse ; 

 sixth, irregular diamond-shaped, midway between fifth and 

 seventh ; eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh form a hindmarginal 

 band ; ninth and eleventh, very small, latter obsolete in male ; 

 tenth, spherical, a black ocellus, with a minute white eye just 

 below seventh ; twelfth rounded (paler than others), below 

 ocellus ; cilia ochreous-fuscous. Hindwings with hindmargin 

 rounded, waved ; orange-yellow, markings fuscous ; a curved 

 band from middle of costa to middle of disc (in male suffusedly 

 continued to inner margin), strongly attenuated towards costa ; 

 a transverse spot at about end of cell ; two waved hindmarginal 

 bands, confluent at apex, attenuated to anal angle, and touching 

 curved band in centre ; in male the two bands are confluent 

 throughout, leaving four irregular spots of ground-colour. A. 

 black ocellus with minute white eye above anal angle ; two 

 minute black dots in neural sjDaces at apex of hindmarginal 

 bands ; a blackish line along hindmargin, surmounted by a 

 strip of ground-colour of same width. Cilia as in fore wings. 



