oblique ; dark-fuscous ; a conspicuous white fascia from three- 

 iifths costa to tornue, slightly dilated in disc, and contracted at 

 tornus ; cilia dark-fuscous. Hindwings with termen rounded ; 

 blackish ; cilia blackish. Under surface like upper surface, but 

 forewings with white spots at base and end of cell, and hind- 

 wings with a discal and tornal white spot, and some white irrora- 

 tion near base. 



Type in coll. Turner. 



N.S. Wales, Ballina (Richmond River) ; two specimens 

 received from Mr. G. A. Waterhouse. 



Sub-fam. Caradrinin^. 

 Section Agrotin^. 



Canthylidia eodora. 

 Heliothis eodora, Meyr., Tr. E.S , 1902, p. 26. 

 Cmithylidia tenuistria, Turn, P.L.S., N.S.W., 1902, p. 79. 

 Queensland, Brisbane. N.S. Wales, Sydney (?). 



Heliothis punctifera. 



Heliothis 2^unctifera, Wlk., Brit. Mus. Cat., XI., p. 691. 

 Heliothis leucatma, Meyr., Tr. E.S., 1897, p. 368. 

 North Queensland, Ravenswood. Queensland, Brisbane, 

 Dalby. Victoria, Melbourne. N.S. Wales, Broken Hill. 



BUCIARA BIPARTITA. 



Buciara bipartita, Wlk., Char. Undt^sj. Lep., p. 36 (teste 

 Hampson). 



Actinotia acmophora, Meyr., Tr. E.S., 1897, p. 370. 

 Victoria, Melbourne. 



Section Mamestrin^. 

 Mamestra xanthocosma, n. sp. 



{Xanthocosmos, ornamented with yellow.) 



Male, 27 mm. Head, thorax, palpi, and antennae brownish- 

 fuscous. Abdomen grey-whitish. Legs brownish-fuscous. Fore- 

 wings elongate-triangular ; brownish-fuscous ; basal, antemedian, 

 and postraedian transverse lines paler, partly outlined with dark- 

 fuscous ; a broad median ochreous-yellow streak between basal 

 and antemedian lines, followed by a small dark-fuscous suffusion; 

 a dark-fuscous suff'usion on dorsum beneath streak ; orbicular 

 obsolete ; reniform ochreous-yellow in upper two-thirds, slenderly 

 outlined with dark-fuscous ; a broad ochreous-yellow streak above 

 dorsum from postmedian line halfway to termen ; an obscure 

 dentate pale subterminal line; cilia brownish-fuscous. Hindwings 



