Heterocera from the Australian Region. 899 



27. Aporocosmus bracteatus, n. s. 



Primaries above cream-coloured ; markings red-brown, spangled 

 with silver as follows : an interrupted oblique band and a spot at 

 base, an oblique irregular band crossing the wing before the middle, 

 a broader transverse irregular abbreviated band from costa to 

 median vein across the end of the cell, a slightly sinuous discal 

 band subparallel to outer margin, two short arched bands almost 

 uniting at centre of outer margin, the inferior one interrupted, an 

 interrupted marginal line, and a similar line on the fringe, which 

 is white ; secondaries pale golden brown or " dead golden," with 

 the costal area, excepting at apex, cream-coloured ; a dark brown 

 external border shot with gold, and therefore only visible in certain 

 lights ; the extreme margin irregularly pale yellow ; fringe very 

 long, cream-coloured, traversed by a slender interrupted brown 

 line ; body coloured in accordance with the wings, the thorax 

 cream-coloured and spotted, the abdomen golden opaline ; under 

 surface pale stramineous, the primaries with indications of the 

 markings of the upper surface in pale smoky brown ; secondaries 

 with a discal line of brown parallel to outer margin ; pectus pearly 

 whitish. Expanse of wings, 16 mm. 



Peak Downs. 



ACONTIA, Oclis. 



28. Acontia amorpha, n. s. 



Allied to A. signifera of India, from which it chiefly differs in 

 its slightly superior size and paler golden brown banding of the 

 primaries ; it also differs in showing traces of stripes across the 

 basal area, in having two spots, the lower one black, in place of the 

 black crescent in the reniform spot, and the secondaries decidedly 

 darker. Expanse of wings, 18 mm. 



Gayndah. 



Specimens of this species from Moreton Bay stand in 

 the collection under a MS. name of Walker's. 



29. Acontia vitiensis, n. s. 



Also allied to A. signifera; primaries above pearl-white, crossed 

 in the middle by a broad cupreous-brown band with dentate sinuate 

 edges, the inner edge bounded by a black line ; reniform spot 

 indicated by a cupreous-brown 3-shaped marking beyond the cell, 

 and a corresponding black linear marking just beyond it at the 

 edge of the external border ; the latter broad, cupreous-brown, 

 dotted with white on costal margin, flecked with black and white 



