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Descriptions of Ne^w^ Genera and Species 

 OF Australian Lepidoptera. 



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

 [Read June 2, 1903.] 



BOMBYCINA. 



LASIO'CAMPIDiE. 



Opsirrhina cyclomela, n. sp. 



Male and female, 60-120 iiini. Head, fa<je, thorax, and legs 

 deep mahogany-red, all tarsi suffusedly ringed with dull 

 ochreoiis-whitish, posterior tibise ochreous. Antennae fuscous, 

 pectinations ochreous. Abdomen yellow above, with broad 

 black segmental bands, beneath mahogany-red. Forewings 

 elongate, triangular, termen obliquely rounded ; deep maho^ 

 gany-red, more or less irrorated with dull whitish, scales, 

 especially in female ; four obscure, similar dull fuscous 

 moderate, cmrved, fasciae ; first from; one-sixth costa to about 

 one-fourth innermargin ; second parallel beyond ; third from 

 costa in middle to middle of innermargin ; fourth parallel be- 

 yond; a curved row of more or less connected fuscous spots 

 from costa at four-fifths to anal angle; a dull fuscous discal 

 spot; all these markings sometimes absent, especially in 

 female ; cilia mahogany-red. Hindwings with termen strongly 

 rounded ; deep mahogany-red, strongly mix'ed with yellowish 

 along innermaigin and at base ; lines a« in forewings, but 

 first two hardly traceable ; cilia as in forewings. 



This fine insect is apparently undescribed, and at Dr. 

 Turner's suggestion I am doing so. The female is a very 

 heavily built insect and much liable to become greasy. 



Cooktown and Duaringa, Queensland; sieveral specimens 

 from late Mr. G. Barnard taken in March 



GEOMETEINA, HYDRIOMENIADJE. 



Hypycnopa, n.v g. 



Face with small cone of scales. Palpi short, porrected. 



Antennae in male bipectinatcd throughout. Posterior tibiae 



with all spurs present. Forewings with areole double; 12 



