Descriptions of New Australian 



NOCTUINA, &G. 

 By Oswald B. Lower, F.E.S. (Loxd.), &c. 



[Read May 5, 1903] 



BOMBYCINA. 



LITHOSIIN.5:. 

 Eligma orthoxantha, u. sp. 



Male, 54 mm. Head, palpi, ancl anteniice dull drab color, 

 head with two black dots between anteniice, palpi with black 

 spota at apices of first and second joints, thorax, with three 

 pairs of black dots, median and lateral, a black dot on patagia. 

 Abdomen orange, with a double dorsal series of black dots 

 throughout. Legs orange, tarsi fuscous. Forewings elongate, 

 moderately dilated posteriorly, costa gently arched, termen ob- 

 liquel}^ rounded ; pale drab, with black markings ; a curved 

 series of three dots at base ; a double dot on costa at one- 

 eighth, a second obliquely beyond and below, a third just 

 below second ; a series of eight spots, first beneath costa at one- 

 third : second, third, fourth, and fifth in a longitudinal row 

 beyond and reaching to beyond two-thirds; sixth, seventh, and 

 eighth in an oblique row immediately below fifth, the whole 

 eight forming a more or less connected series, interspaces 

 filled with whitish ; a spot resting on lower edge of cell 

 about middle, an elongate spot on innermargin in middle, and 

 a dentate line between, nearer to first than second spot; 

 a row of dots before termen, anteriorly edged with whitish ; 

 a white blotch on costa at one-fourth, more or less continued 

 interruptedly to three-fourths across wing ; a moderately broad 

 transverse oblique white fascia, from teosta at five-sixths to 

 inner margin at three-fourths, becoming divided into two 

 parallel scalloped lines on lower two-thirds ; an irregular white 

 suffusion just beyond middle of wing ; cilia drab, with white 

 bars. Hindwings black ; apex faintly prominent ; cilia whitish 

 Wings beneath blackish. A very distinct insect, somewhat 

 resembling some of the XyJoryctidce in general appearance. 



Mackay, Queensland; one specimen in October. 



