82 Ci.l. C. Swinhoe on new 



Family LasiocampidaB. 

 Clathe /via, nov. 



(J ? . Of a uniform grey tinged with mouse-colour ; a 

 broad central band on fore wings of slightly darker colour, 

 edged on both sides with white, the band of nearly even 

 width ; an indistinct grey spot at the end of cell : hind wings 

 uniform in colour, without markings, the coloration slightly 

 darker than on the fore wings. 



Sexes alike, the female slightly the paler. 



Expanse of wingfs, (^ ^u, ^ 1 j^, inch. 



Sherlock River, W. Australia. 



Types ( (? ? ) in B. M. 



Sittina rhoda^ nov. 



(J. Head, collar, and shoulders cream-colour; antennse, 

 body, and wings dark chocolate-brown ; abdomen white at 

 the tip : fore wing with the discal portion hyaline, the costa 

 and apex broadly brown, the outer margin narrowly brown 

 and paler; a white spot at end of cell, a small white patch 

 near centre of hinder margin, an indistinct line of white dots 

 from it through the middle of the hyaline space to the costa 

 one fifth from apex, where there is another white spot. Under- 

 side : body cream-colour; fore wing as above; hind wing 

 with a broad white central band, which is more or less visible 

 above. 



? . With the antennae, head, thorax, tip of abdomen, and 

 the entire body below cream-colour, the abdomen and both 

 wings above pale greyish chocolate; the portion of the fore 

 wing hyaline in the male is cream-coloured in this sex; the 

 costa and outer margin broadly and evenly greyish chocolate; 

 spots as in the male ; the band on the underside of the hind 

 wings distinct and even as on the upperside, and also a 

 Eubmarginal band of cream-coloured spear-shaped marks 

 with grey centres across both wings. 



Expanse of wings, S ^\^> ? 2nT inches. 

 Sherlock lliver, W. Australia (^Clement). 

 Types {S ?) in 13. M. 



Family Acontiidae. 

 Mrgalodes pura, nov. 



J ^ . Ileatl, thorax, and fore wings pure white ; a brown 

 s| ot in cell, ivoni A\liich there is a lineoi brown dots to hinder 

 margin a little before the middle ; another similar line in the 



