Descriptions of New Genera and Species 

 OF Australian Lepidoptera. 



By Oswald B. Lower, F.E.S., Lond., &c. 



[Read October 1, 1901.] 



BOMBYCINA. 



OiKETICUS ERIONOTA, U. Sp. 



Male, 30 mm. Head, thorax, abdomen, and legs whitish, 

 densely clothed, face black, collar orange, anterior tibise, and 

 tarsi blackish, middle and posterior pair ochreous. Antennae 

 bla^k. Forewings elongate, moderate, costa faintly sinuate, 

 termen gently bowed, oblique ; light greyish fuscous, darker 

 along costa and towards base ; cilia grey-whitish. Hindwings 

 with termen rounded ; colour and cilia as in forewings. Under- 

 side of both wings with costa darker than above. 



This species is remarkable for the densely haired abdomen 

 -and thorax, above and below. 



Broken Hill, New South Wales; one specimen, at light, in 

 May. 



Zeuzera coscinopa, n. sp. 



Male, 34 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, legs, and abdomen 

 ashy-grey-whitish, thorax darker in middle. Ajitennee dull 

 ochreous, pectinations at greatest length 4. Forewings elon- 

 gate, moderate, costa nearly straight, termen gently rounded, 

 very oblique ; dull whitish, evenly reticulated throughout, with 

 fine black strigulae; median third of wing becoming dark 

 fuscous from base of costa to termen below apex, darkest on 

 anterior half ; cilia fuscous — whitish, strongly mixed with 

 blackish. Hindwings with termen gently rounded; whitish, 

 semi-hyaline, iiore or less finely reticulated with blackish stri- 

 gulae, more pronounced at apex and along inner margin ; cilia 

 as in forewings. 



Nearest neuroxantha, Lower ; but easily distinguished from 

 that species by the absence of yellow veins and darker colour- 

 ing. 



Roeburne, Western Australia; one specimen. (Type in 

 Colt. Lyell). 



