;J7i] On new Pyraliilae of the Subfamily Ilydrocanipinfe. 



foUl, with some oi-ange-yellow scales before the three lower spots 

 and motallic t^oUl ])oints between the spots on tennen ; cilia 

 cupreous hrown at biise, white tinged with brown at tips. 

 Ilab. AMBOlXi. {Doherty), 1 $ type. Exp. 12 mm. 



(17/) Cataclysta queenslandica, sp. n. 



cf . Head and thorax silvery white, the patagia yellowish at tips ; 

 abdomen silvery white suffused with golden yellow ; antennae 

 brownish with white points in front ; palpi yellow tinged with 

 brown ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen white tinged 

 with yellow, the fore femora above and tibiae on inner side black. 

 Pore wing white, the basal area obliquely and the costal area to 

 end of cell cupreous brown, the medial area irrorated with cupreous 

 brown except towards costa, the terminal area orange-^'ellow from 

 costa at end of cell to inner margin near tornus ; a cupreous-brown 

 discoidal spot and two lines from lower angle of cell, diverging 

 towards inner margin ; an oblique wedge-shaped silver\'- white post- 

 medial patch from costa to vein 4, some cupreous brown beyond it 

 on costa ; a subterminal band from below costa to vein 3, where it 

 ends in a point, white above and metallic silver below, the white 

 part defined at sides by cupreous brown on inner side extending 

 to the costa ; an oblique metallic silver spot above tornus ; a fine 

 dark terminal line ; cilia cupreous brown, white at submedian fold. 

 Hind wing white, the postmedial area irrorated with large black 

 scales, triangularly from costa where it extends to apex to sub- 

 median fold ; the base tinged with j'ellow ; a cupreous-brown ante- 

 medial bar in and below the cell ; an oblique cupreous-brown 

 medial band from costa to submedian fold ; the terminal half of 

 inner area orange-yellow with some metallic silver at middle 

 of inner margin ; a fine sinuous black-brown subterminal line from 

 apex to above tornus ; five partly confluent ocellate blaek spots on 

 termen with metallic silver points between them and orange-yellow 

 points on termen ; cilia cupreous brown at base, white tinged with 

 brown at tips. 



$ . Head with dark bar behind antennae ; thorax tinged with 

 ochreous brown ; abdomen yellower ; fore wing with the base and 

 costal area redder brown, an oblique red-brown medial band, the 

 yellow terminal area defined on inner side by two red-brown lines, 

 angled inwards to lower angle of cell ; hind wing with oblique 

 orange-yellow medial band defined at sides by cupreous-brown 

 lines, the postmedial area more strongly irrorated, the subterminal 

 line more distinct and defined on each side by ^-ellowish white, the 

 terminal ocellate spots better defined and separate. 



Hah. QuEEXSLAXD, Cooktown, Cedar Bay (Meek), 1 c? type, 

 Kuranda {Dodd), 1 2 • ^^P-y 6 14, $ 16 mm. 



[To be continued.] 



