Thyas hicanora, n. sp. 



(Hikanoros, becoming, seemingly.) 



Male, 44 mm. Head, thorax, and palpi fuscous, dnged with 

 ■ochreous. Antennae g^^J- Abdomen dark -grey. Legs dark- 

 grey. Forewings triangular, costa straight, slightly arched 

 towards apex, apex round pointed, termen rounded, slightly 

 oblique, crenulate ; fuscous, tinged with ochreous ; a faint, 

 -fuscous, slightly sinuate antemedian line from one-fourth costa 

 to one-third dorsum; a fuscous median dot; ground-colour 

 sharply defined by a brownish postmedian line from three-fourths 

 costa, slightly outwardly arched near costa, then straight to 

 brfore tornus — this line is preceded by a dark-fuscous suffusion ; 

 beyond postmedian line disc is whitish-grey, with the exception 

 • of a triangular brownish suffusion from line to apex ; a terminal 

 -series of minute blackish dots between crenulations ; cilia fuscous, 

 tinged with ochreous, on tornus whitish-grey. Hind wings with 

 ^termen rounded, dark -fuscous, towards base paler ; a suffused 

 whitish oblique streak from inner margin at two-thirds, towards 

 costa at one-third ; a short white terminal line from beneath 

 apex to vein 5; a narrow whitish suffusion from vein 3 to tornus; 

 cilia fuscous, on terminal line white, on tornal suffusion whitish. 



Type in coll. Turner. 



North Queensland, Townsville, in February ; one specimen 

 received from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



Section Noctuin.e. 



POLYDESMA AURICULATA, n. Sp. 



{Auriculatus, eared — in allusion to the complex fovea on fore- 

 -wing.) 



Male, 31 mm. Head, thorax, and palpi dark -fuscous, irrorated 

 ^with ochreous-whitish. Antennse ochreous-whitish, annulated 

 •with black ; in male simple. Abdomen fuscous. Legs dark- 

 iuscous, mixed with ochreous-whitish. Forewings triangular, 

 costa slightly arched near base, then straight ; apex tolerably 

 pointed, termen bowed, oblique ; in male w4th two deeply 

 excavated thinly-scaled foveas beneath costa towards base — on 

 lower surface these form roundish projections with a deep fovea 

 between, the whole overlapped by the long highly-developed 

 retinaculum, and by a shorter ridge, on which is a short triangular 

 process arising from median vein ; dark-fuscous, mixed with 

 ochreous-whitish, the dark scales tending to form transverse 

 ■fasciae ; postmedian line obscure, dentate, from three-fourths 

 costa to two-thirds dorsum, strongly sigmoid; an interrupted 

 dark-fuscous terminal line ; cilia dark-fuscous. Hindwings with 

 termen rounded, slightly crenulate, fuscous ; a faint postmedian 



