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XV. Descriptions of 21 new genera and 103 new species 

 of Lepidoptera-Heterocera from the Australian 

 Region. By ARTHUR G. BUTLER, F.L.S., F.Z.S., 

 &c. 



[Bead June 2nd, 1886.] 



THE species described in the present paper were sent to 

 the Museum for identification, with many other previously 

 named species received at the Godeffroy Museum from 

 collectors in Australia, Fiji, &c. Many of the species, 

 as might have been anticipated, form the types of new 

 genera, but at the same time the appearance of the 

 greater part of them is by no means striking, their 

 colouring being, as a rule, sombre, of various shades of 

 brown or grey. 



All the species here described have been seen by Mr. 

 Meyrick since I wrote the descriptions. 



AGAEISTID^E. 



^EGOCERA, Latr. 



1. Mgocera cornigera, n. s. 



Allied to JE. diver sa (Agarista diversa, Walk.), the pattern of 

 the primaries being very similar to that species and to A. ephyra 

 (Herr.-Sch., Aussl. Schm., fig. 27), but of a cupreous-brown colour; 

 base white, divided by the veins, two subcostal spots near the 

 base ; an oblique abbreviated fascia immediately below the second 

 subcostal spot, and below it again an elongated spot on internal 

 border ; a large quadrate spot crosses the discoidal cell towards its 

 extremity, and below it is an oblique irregular interno-median 

 streak ; between the latter and the internal spot previously noted 

 is a small internal dot ; beyond the cell is a broad almost 3-shaped 

 fascia, and near the external angle a -cuneiform spot ; at about 

 apical fourth is a subcostal dot ; an abbreviated series of seven dots 

 crosses the disc almost parallel to the outer edge of the 3-shaped 

 fascia, and is followed by a regular submarginal series alternating 

 with a series of quadrate spots on the fringe ; all these markings 

 are milk-white ; secondaries nearly as in JE. bicolor, ochreous, 

 with a dark or cupreous-brown spot across the end of the cell, and 



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