BY E. MEYKICK, B.A. 449 



Toowoomba, in Queensland ; during October, and from December 

 to February, amongst thin bush. 



4. Cap. hernicosmana, n. sp. 



$ ? , 5". Head, palpi, and thorax whitish-ochreous, some- 

 what mixed with darker. Antenna) whitish-ochreous, annulated 

 with dark fuscous. Abdomen pale greyish-ochreous. Legs 

 whitish, anterior pair suffused with dark fuscous, middle tarsi 

 banded with dark fuscous. Forewings rather elongate, costa 

 gently arched, in male somewhat bent before middle, hindmargin 

 straight, oblique ; very pale whitish-ochreous, costa obscurely 

 strigulated with dark fuscous, costal edge in male suifusedly 

 dark fuscous towards base ; a blackish suffused somewhat inter- 

 rupted longitudinal streak above the submedian fold from near 

 base to about middle ; outer edge of basal patch obscurely 

 indicated in female by a dark fuscous outwardly oblique line from 

 costa at one-fourth, ending in the longitudinal streak ; central 

 fascia dark fuscous mixed with blackish, rather narrow, very 

 oblique, from before middle of costa, reaching only half across 

 wing, beneath truncate and margined by a longitudinal black 

 line, of which the posterior extremity is somewhat produced and 

 bent dovvnwards ; a moderately large triangular dark fuscous 

 costal blotch, mixed with blackish, extending on costa from 

 middle to a little before apex, sharply defined, apex blackish and 

 reaching half across wing ; anal angle and lower part of hind- 

 margin obscurely clouded with faint grey ; a short linear blackish 

 streak from apex along upper part of hindmargin : cilia pale 

 whitish-ochreous, with a blackish-grey line near base. Hind- 

 wings whitish-grey ; cilia whitish, with a faint grey line near 

 base. 



Closely allied to C. vacuana, but apart from the whitish-ochre- 

 ous head, easily known by the markings extending only across 

 the costal half of the f orewings, and by the blackish longitudinal 

 discal streak. 



