382 Mr. Butler's descriptions of Lepidoptera- 



an irregularly sinuated external border of the same colour ; fringe 

 white, ochreous at base and spotted with brown, in the male only 

 towards apex, in the female throughout ; head and thorax white, 

 the antennae, a spot on the head, the front of collar, shoulders, 

 two longitudinal stripes on the thorax, and an oblique stripe on the 

 tegulae brown, a short horny process, flattened and truncated in 

 front projecting from the frons ; wings below much as above, but 

 the primaries pale ochreous at the base so as to cover the subbasal 

 spots of the upper surface, the white dots across the disc wanting, 

 palpi white with an oblique lateral black dash and black terminal 

 joint; body below pale ochreous, legs partly brown above, the 

 tarsi barred with white ; venter barred with brown. Expanse of 

 wings : male, 29 mm. ; female, 37 mm. 



Male, Gayndah ; female, Peak Downs. 



The singular frontal process possessed by this species 

 occurs in a much less highly developed condition in 

 M. diversa, and therefore I do not think it sufficient of 

 itself to constitute a character of generic value. 



MILTOCHEISTA, Hubn. 

 2. Miltochrista simulans, n. s. 



Size and aspect of Nepita conferta (male), excepting in the 

 absence of any dark border to the secondaries ; allied to Miltochrista 

 (Barsine) placens from Timor and Ceram ; primaries above grey, 

 crossed by five series of ochreous markings, the first across the 

 base semicircular, the second forming an interrupted angulated 

 band across basal third and consisting of four somewhat oval spots 

 in pairs, the third consisting of three nearly equidistant spots in an 

 angular series across the middle of the wing ; the fourth begins 

 with an oval costal spot, below which is a sinuous series of seven 

 small spots only divided by the nervures ; the last consists of three 

 unequal angulated spots on outer margin; fringe ochreous; a 

 series of black marginal dots partly impinging upon the fringe ; 

 secondaries pale ochreous, slightly deeper towards external border; 

 body ochreous ; thorax reddish, spotted with slaty black ; under 

 surface more salmon-tinted than above, markings on the primaries 

 obliterated excepting on the borders ; legs barred with dull greyish 

 black. Expanse of wings, 32 mm. 



Kockhampton. 



To any one who neglected to examine the neuration 

 in new species this would appear to be a Nepita 



